Performing Arts

This week, Philadelphia theater company Lightning Rod Special is performing a musical comedy about abortion called “Unformed Consen ...

An opera based on the 1985 MOVE confrontation — when police dropped a bomb on an African-American activist commune in West Philadelphia ...

Happy, nervous energy filled the backstage area as dancers from more than 35 organizations readied themselves to perform at the Festival ...

The historic Merriam Theater on Philadelphia’s South Broad Street will soon undergo major renovation, and the owners want to entert ...

“And what do we say about historical accuracy?” a newly resurrected, glittering Edith Piaf asked the crowd assembled outside of Phila ...

Newfoundland was Britain’s oldest colony; in 1949, however, its inhabitants narrowly voted to join Canada, thus becoming the 10th p ...

I'd graduated from high school in a small town two hours north of New York City, and had decided that musical theater was my passion. It wasn't.

When South Philadelphia residents Lois Fernandez and Ruth Arthur launched the Odunde festival 42 years ago, the celebration took place wi ...

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

Local dancers shimmied to raise money to fight lung disease this past weekend in Philadelphia. More than 20 belly dancers took the ...

Richard Strauss’s opera “Der Rosencavalier” first performed in 1911 attracted rave reviews internationally and in citie ...

When I heard that One Book One Philadelphia had chosen ...

Two years ago, I decided to participate in a summer musical theater camp. Here's the thing: I don't sing. I don't act. I don't dance. It was a challenge.

Brought to you by Freemans Auctioneers, The Circuit, with Caroline Stewart, takes you to the Loews Philadelphia Hotel for Opera Philadelp ...