Performing Arts

Nominations were announced Monday for the awards for excellence in Philadelphia-area professional theater.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a song many African-Americans know from school or church. You may know it from one of a few landmark performances.

The Philadelphia Orchestra will bring in more women composers next season, including a workshop of six new pieces.

A team of international chefs working in a portable kitchen keeps Cirque du Soleil performers happy and fit.

A Baptist church in West Philadelphia will premiere new music by four African-American composers working in the vein of Leonard Bernstein.

The orchestra announced that two pieces by female composers would be added to the lineup.

They're dancing as fast as they can, then even faster.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s Attorneys General try to block 3-D guns from being downloaded in their states. Shanita Hubbard discus ...

The festival produces the play the way Shakespeare would have, from what we know today.

Shakespeare in Philadelphia's Clark Park backs up "Twelfth Night" with a glam-rock band of kids from the neighborhood.

Mayors get criticized all the time, but it’s not every day the critic is a billionaire rap mogul.

New Jersey snuffs out cigarette smoking on its beaches. Fred Korematsu’s daughter speaks to his legacy in Valley Forge. A small b ...

For the theater-loving public, PlayPenn’s annual conference, where new plays are workshopped, offers a peek behind the curtain.

This summer, catch an al fresco production of a Shakespeare play.