Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF) presents the iconic Tony-Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “A Chorus Line.” The show runs from June 22 through July 10 at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of DeSales University in Center Valley, PA.
WASHINGTON - When the Kennedy Center brought in Theresa Ruth Howard as a guest curator for a program celebrating Black ballet dancers, she had more in mind than a showcase of majority-Black companies.
The Arden Theatre Company’s long-time affiliation with the works of Stephen Sondheim continues as the company presents a new production of his well-known musical “Into The Woods.” The show, which explores the journey through the fairy tales, happy endings and the responsibilities that come w…
The Kimmel Cultural Campus held their annual black-tie Gala this week to raise funds to support free education and community programming, ensuring that all Philadelphians have access to the transformative power of the arts. Guests arrived to a celebratory cocktail reception, with a red-carpe…
NEW YORK — Here’s to the playwrights who quip. And yes, please, everybody laugh, because things are terrible right now, and we can all use the kind of release activated by being with other people and sharing an hour or two of funny respite.
There’s something about an outdoor setting that kicks the pleasure of a dance performance up a notch. Maybe it’s the sense of physical and even spiritual release, inherent in dance, that becomes amplified in the open air. Freedom feels ever more tangible when there are no walls around you, t…
“Freestyle Love Supreme,” one of the hottest shows on Broadway, is set to arrive at the Miller Theater soon. Lin Manuel-Miranda and Philly native Anthony Veneziale, founded the group that grew into a Tony Award-winning Broadway show.
Philadelphia Dance Projects concludes its 25th season with the premiere of Tommie-Waheed Evans’ “softly as i leave you” from June 10-11 at 7 pm at Christ Church Neighborhood House.
NEW YORK — Myles Frost was a college junior in Maryland, studying audio engineering, when he got the call that would change his life. Five years earlier, he had performed “Billie Jean” at a high school talent show, and his mom had filmed the performance on her iPad. Now an embryonic Broadway…
Before actor/, director, producer and playwright Kash Goins begins the process of writing a play, he often begins by mentally envisioning what he wants to say long before putting pen to paper.
He began researching and writing it in 2017, never imagining that “Fat Ham,” his take on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” would lead to a Pulitzer Prize.
When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won’t be found – a convent!
When Melayne Finister was in the second grade she wrote a wonderful book report. But when the time came to stand in front of the class and read it, she froze.
It is not everyday people stay at the same job for two decades. It’s something that gets noticed, because of its rarity. That’s why Philadelphia Ballet Principal Dancer, Jermel Johnson, is being celebrated.
“A Strange Loop” and five other contenders will duke it out for the top prize at the 2022 Tony Awards — outstanding new musical — as the nominations announced Monday in 26 categories herald the successful completion of the first full Broadway season since pre-pandemic 2019.
NEW YORK — "A Strange Loop," Michael R. Jackson's critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday as Broadway joined the national discussion of race by embracing an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical.
It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and plump, big-haired teenager Tracy Turnblad dreams of dancing on the local teenage TV dance program.
When the pandemic canceled shows and shut down rehearsal studios, many choreographers took to making dances over Zoom. Kyle Abraham wasn’t one of them.
When Jordan answers a knock at his door, he's expecting to see his most recent hook-up standing there, but instead encounters Paul, the father of a former boyfriend.
Avenue of the Arts, Inc., the organization that champions Philadelphia’s theater and cultural arts district will present its Third Annual Visionary Awards to two women who have changed the trajectory of dance in Philadelphia with their vision and dedication.
Opera Philadelphia returns to the Kimmel Cultural Campus’ Academy of Music stage for the first time since September 2019 with four performances of “Rigoletto” from April 29-May 8.
He was a man of many talents. The late Ralph Ellison wrote the National Book Award-winning novel “Invisible Man,” which focused on an African-American civil rights worker from the south who, upon his move to New York, becomes increasingly alienated due to racism that he encounters.
The Wilma Theater will present the premiere of their adaptation of Anton Chekhov's “The Cherry Orchard” on April 12 through May 1.
NEW YORK - Richard Greenberg's I-heart-baseball play, "Take Me Out," has returned to the field for another Broadway run, and it is as robustly entertaining as it proved to be when it debuted nearly 20 years ago - maybe even more so now.
“A Man for All Seasons,” Robert Bolt’s searing drama that focuses on Sir Thomas More’s refusal to acknowledge King Henry VIII as the supreme head of the Church of England, is being presented by Lantern Theatre Company now through April 10 at Plays & Players Theatre.
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