Performing Arts

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.

For nearly a quarter century Terry McNally has played Marie Antoinette for Philadelphia's satirical Bastille Day celebration in the city's Fairmount section.

The fictional Oscar-winning film about Shakespeare, his writer's block and the way he's smitten by a London woman becomes a stage play that he could have written.

Some of the show's performances are so extreme (and look so dangerous), you wonder how anyone ever learned to do this stuff.

Now through August 19th, Philadelphia families have the wonderful opportunity of catching Cirque du Soleil’s energetic, imag ...

Seven faith leaders from the local community who will play the part of the good friar over the next two weeks in the Delaware Shakespeare’s production.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner may – or may not – take part in the festivities. He says he does see similarities between France of 1789 and the U.S. of 2018.