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Alan Cumming talks about his new series 'Instinct,' his new movie 'After Louie,' and his life as an LGBTQ actor and activist.
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has partnered with Dear Evan Hansen star Ben Platt for a mashup track that benefits March for Our Lives, a planned march on Washington, D.C. in support of…
"[The work] is hung on a musical frame. But more saliently to most audiences, perhaps, it is religious, it is social, it is political. ... Maybe the technical term for it all is simply this:…
That's a worry some people have since the museum - now firmly ensconced in Center City Philadelphia rather than at Alfred Barnes's old home in an inner suburb - has hired a collections asses…
The Opera Philadelphia 2018-19 season will feature singers Marietta Simpson, Frederica von Stade, Patricia Racette, and Stephanie Blythe - and two premieres. One is a multimedia installation…
The gospel voices: WOW. The musicians: WOW. And the hats: WOW. McCarter Theatre Center's lively production of Regina Taylor's Crowns is a heartwarming, foot-tapping show, adapted from the bo…
"Frozen," a controversial play by British dramatist Bryony Lavery, is playing through April 1 at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5. It's a disturbing drama about a murderous pedophile, a ps…
NEW YORK (AP) - Conductor James Levine sued the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday after a sexual misconduct investigation sank his storied career, saying the renowned company exploited baseless…
Bess Wohl's Obie Award-winning "Small Mouth Sounds," through April 1 at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, follows six fugitives from city life as they go to a silent retreat. We watch the fr…
In "Chicago," David Mamet returns to the city where he was raised and where he started to work in theater. The novel also marks a return to the Prohibition era of "The Untouchables" (1987), …
The museum casts the complex, fascinating story of Bernstein as a personal quest - the composer's search for solutions to the 20th century's "crisis of faith."
When you think Tribe of Fools, you think "devised theater." You think of ensembles of nimble physical-theater masters. You also think comedy, as in last year's "School Play." Now the Tribe s…
NEW YORK (AP) - The Metropolitan Opera fired music director emeritus James Levine after an investigation found evidence of sexual abuse and harassment.
Students from the University of the Arts/Pig Iron Devised Performance Program are taking a cross-country journey, from Philadelphia to San Francisco on Amtrak. It's a way for the class of 20…
Politically incorrect and hilarious, Bristol Riverside Theatre's production of 'The Producers' entertains with superb singing, dazzling choreography and outstanding performances in the lead …
Along with Audra McDonald, Longwood Gardens' summer concert lineup includes a taping of NPR's "From the Top" hosted by pianist Christopher O'Riley, plus other jazz and classical artists.
A bigger Pennsylvania Ballet orchestra would heighten the impact.
Pennsylvania Ballet's premiere of Angel Corella's "Swan Lake" didn't feel as distinctively his own as his previous story ballets.
It seems an apt time to weave together a few of the threads that made Bob Capanna who he was " the Bobness of Bob, if you will. Capanna embodied a set of high ideals that arts institution…
Leonard Bernstein's messy 'A Quiet Place' is still kind of a mess in a new co-production by the Curtis Institute, Opera Philadelphia, and the Kimmel Center. But this edition is a good step f…
The BalletX 2018 spring series has world premieres by Trey McIntyre and Beyoncé choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie. Also on the delightful program: Matthew Neenan's 2014 "Increasing."
The documentary 'Bombshell' tells the story of Hedy Lamarr, one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, and perhaps the most brilliant - her radio frequency patents formed the basis of mod…
He created "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," and then went on to become maybe the most-read satirist in the land. Andy Borowitz brings all that and more to the Keswick Theatre in Glenside on Thursd…
When the piece premiered at Houston Grand Opera in 1983, most of the reviews were harsh: The New York Times pronounced it "a pretentious failure." Now, with the Bernstein centennial upon us,…
