Performing Arts

Need to brush up your Shakespeare?

Competition, love, and the bizarre back-and-forth between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and husband Robert. How does she love him? Don't even think about counting the ways.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer writes orchestral work for 400 broken instruments in Philadelphia's school district. Its premiere concert will help bring about their repair.

Backed by two pianos, Quintessence Theatre Group produces an enchanting musical whose roots stretch back to ancient Greece and Rome.

Three sisters have a very bad day, especially in this telling.

The city's retail corridor for building supplies will be the new home for BalletX.

Bruce Graham's play, in its world premiere, is a riveting piece about an art dealer charged with treason.

The audience helps actor Scott Greer deliver this tale of a man with a mom who attempts suicide and his list that supplies reasons for living.

A world premiere musical offers the fun side of Pilgrims and Native Americans that we never saw. (Neither did they!)

A Marine sets out on a mission to recover antiquities in Iraq. A ghostwriter has her own ideas about the details.

Aliens have invaded her, one sister tells another in a beguiling world-premiere play.

Family history repeats itself in a play by one of Ireland's current leading playwrights.

An old play becomes an altogether new experience in this adaptation of Federico García Lorca's classic.

Say what you will about the Delaware Theatre Company, it’s never been afraid to tackle controversial topics. The story of a black boxer in the early 1900s fits that theme.

The Barrymore Award ceremony, Monday night at the Merriam Theater, is the way metropolitan Philadelphia’s professional theater community celebrates its accomplishments.