Performing Arts

“Boycott Esther” playwright Emily Acker creates an imperfect onstage drama out of her career setback because of Harvey Weinstein’s fall from grace.

Delaware Theatre Company’s “Honk! The Ugly Duckling Musical” is heartwarming entertainment for anyone who has ever felt like a square peg in a round-hole world.

OperaDelaware’s 2019 legal-themed festival features the most performed opera of the 21st century, “Dead Man Walking,” along with the comical “Scalia/Ginsburg.”

Emily Acker watched the Weinstein Company collapse, from the inside. She wrote a play based on that dissolution.

Theater companies are reaching out to lower-income patrons with alternative ticketing models.

Playwright Kate Tarker offers up the absurdist tale of a shepherd, his wife and Oedipus, the son who left them.

Reggie Wilson, a New York choreographer, will present a series of experimental dances at four historic churches in Philadelphia.

Sarah Ruhl wrote the play as a 70th birthday gift for her mother, who portrayed Pan as a teenager in Iowa.

People in Philadelphia’s theater community push back against Philadelphia Theater Company’s diversity claim.

Arts nonprofit We Are the Seeds hosted its inaugural local festival Saturday at Taller Puertorriqueño to showcase the culture and creations of Native communities.

Afghanistan and Omaha are the settings for an alternately funny and sad drama about the meaning of struggle.

The play has been the object of scorn and disgust for its subject matter and even for its title. But this flawed presentation satisfies as a glimpse of theater history.

Appearing in Philadelphia accompanied by Pennsylvania state politicians, rapper Meek Mill again calls for changes to the state's system of probation and parole.

Movement may be more subtle in this Philadelphia production of the Broadway dazzler, but the result is striking and eloquent in its own right.

Philadelphia theater companies mine the annual list of under-produced scripts to find dramatic gold.