19 stories by "Peter Dobrin"
The building is now part of, and owned by, the Kimmel Center
A new production of The Firebird reinvents the ballet - with puppets, animation, and more
Anne Ewers, the Kimmel Center's president, stays on with a new three-year contract
New Opera Philadelphia composer-in-residence
Having received no offers for a takeover, the organization that occupies the Prince Music Theater on Friday terminated its lease with the owners of the building on Chestnut Street just west …
When leaders of the Pennsylvania Ballet grew weary of a seemingly endless loop of financial strain, they turned to Michael M. Kaiser. With unpaid vendors knocking on the Philadelphia Theatre…
The Roberts family has moved up a $200,000 payment on a promised grant to the Philadelphia Theatre Company to help ease the company's cash crunch, but the philanthropists have not made any d…
The Prince Music Theater will close its doors and cease to exist as a cultural institution Nov. 30 unless new leadership takes on the expense and work of keeping it alive, its current leader…
Stagehands at the Philadelphia Theatre Company Friday ratified their first labor contract, ending a 15-day strike that disrupted the theater's run of The Mountaintop.
Saturday night, no one was safe from the charms of Hugh Jackman. As guest for the Academy of Music's 156th Anniversary Concert and Ball, the Australian actor sang a few songs and waved his w…
Talks between the Philadelphia Theatre Co. and union officials ended Sunday after "seven fruitless hours," according to the union, without reaching a new labor agreement covering 27 stagehan…
Philadelphia Theatre Company's Friday night preview performance of The Mountaintop was canceled after local 8 of the International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees called a stag…
Michael Krajewski, 62, who leads pops orchestras in Atlanta, Houston and Jacksonville, will take over in the fall of 2013.
Peter Nero will lead the Philly Pops next season in Verizon Hall and then, at the end of 2012-13, pass the baton to a successor after 3½ decades of Gershwin, film music, Broadway, and a s…
Peter Nero has prevailed. His lawyers successfully beat back a move to oust the Grammy Award-winning pianist and conductor as head of the Philly Pops. Nero, 78, who had two years to go on hi…
Finding a successor to Peter Nero, 77, is on the ensemble's to-do list.
Some Play: A stage adaptation of E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, closing Sunday, has become the Arden Theatre Company's biggest hit ever.
