Performing Arts

After I read E. B. White’s children’s classic Charlotte’s Web when I was in third grade, I adamantly decided that I would be a vegetarian.

The Avalon String Band — a Mummers club on Two Street — recruited a design graduate to upgrade their costumes and save them money.

The script to the musical isn't so sterling, and the production tries to make it something it's not. So come for the show's well-written music.

Anthony Lawton is the storyteller in this recreation of the tale of transformation.

The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's fantasy brings the book's cartoonish — and nasty — characters alive.

“A Sign of the Times” offers a perfect break from the holiday rush: thoughtful but not overly so, nostalgic but timely … and just plain fun.

Two graduate students, into their work but aloof from themselves

Jessica Lang Dance, a New York City company that has won the highest dance accolades, will fold in April.

The musical, in a sterling production, does justice to Alice Walker's book.

The ghost of John Barrymore is the liveliest part of the play, and surely of this production.

Nora, who walks out the door at the end of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece, is back.

The war hero Achilles and his friend, Petroclus, consider their love and interdependence.

The annual awards for professional theater in metropolitan Philadelphia draw a crowd of about 700 to celebrate.

Can old and new neighborhood cultures survive together?

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