Performing Arts

Critics are heaping praise on a new off-Broadway play about life in modern Africa. But if you're assuming the topic must be war or disease or famine, you're in for surprise.

The measure calls for allowing a theater with 100 seats or more, limited to the performance and two hours before or after, to be able to serve alcohol.

“The Art of Swimming” runs through Sunday at The Headhouse Café.

The choir, recognized as one of the finest in the world, is in the midst of its busiest time of year.

The massive, citywide civic engagement experiment will conclude with the production of a new play written for the project.

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.