Performing Arts

Can old and new neighborhood cultures survive together?

Sheridan's witty 1775 play about love and rivalry becomes a musical romp.

I knew Ntozake Shange many years ago. Her recent passing at age 70 made me reach back to remember those times. It’s no exaggeration ...

A post-apocalyptic vision of a world without electricity uses "The Simpsons" as a cultural icon that draws people together.

People live by the rhythm of the waves, at the end of an era of oystering.

Photos of the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, performers Aretha Franklin and Chavela Vargas, and designer Kate Spa ...

Slimmed down and moving along, the production irons some of the wrinkles out of Arthur Miller's play.

Philadelphia actor Kraig Swartz revisits the role he played in 2002 at Act II Playhouse.

Do you like to be scared? I don’t!

Is “Merchant” an anti-Semitic play or a play about anti-Semitism?

An ancient story by Euripides that never gets old.

A witch contest in drag, to find this year's witchiest.

Lynn Nottage's play about factory decline and its effect on disrespected workers puts the stage company back into production.

A teenage girl faithfully looks after a father with MS, and balances her real life with fantasy.

Three teens see themselves as outside the "coolness" spectrum.