Performing Arts

A group of European artists drop into town to reimagine the city’s built environment — using masking tape and modern dance — in the middle of an evening commute

We've got plenty of events for you to get excited about, whether you're an avant-garde theater buff, a beer nerd, or an avid birder.

With an eclectic mix of groundbreaking performances, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts offers something for everyone.

A daughter discovers her gay self, and then discovers her father's.

The show that spurred a spate of live jukebox musicals remains a standout.

A Germantown school is taking a classic work and reimagining it for a deaf audience.

L.M. Feldman's new play is a sweeping exploration of Jewish identity.

The black churches of Coatesville show Philadelphia how it's done in "Gospel at Colonus."

In Tuesday’s primary, a record number of women won nominations to represent Pennsylvania in Congress. The Gallup Poll’s Frank ...

Orbiter 3, a collective of playwrights designed to produce seven new plays, did what it set out to do. It will dissolve after it's final production, 'A People.'

Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s director David Amado will lead the group in its first ever performance of Gustav Mahler’s “Seventh Symphony,” which fascinated him as a child.

If 90 minutes a week of 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' is just not cutting it for you, head to the Gayborhood this weekend to see a homegrown Philly drag competition crown its new king.

The Painted Bride, an Old City icon in Philadelphia, plans to sell its building. Philadelphia arts leaders are crying foul.

Discover the interstellar potential of spoken word.

A troupe of all-black burlesque performers from Philadelphia took a packed room upstairs at the Trocadero Theatre to Wakanda in a show inspired by "Black Panther."