Wilma Theater News

Ensemble Arts Philly will celebrate the kickoff of Philadelphia's robust arts and culture season with Philadelphia Fall Arts Fest at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) announces that Dominic Moore-Dunson, an award-winning choreographer and arts leader, has been selected as the 2025-2026 Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Artist.

Arizona Theatre Company has named award-winning sound designer and Assistant Teaching Professor at Arizona Thate University Daniel Perelstein Jaquette as its Resident Artist for the 2025/2026 season. Learn more!

Philadelphia Theatre Company will open its 51st season with the Philadelphia premiere of Primary Trust, the play by 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eboni Booth that earned widespread critical praise for its 2023 Off-Broadway world premiere.

Theatre Horizon, the award-winning professional theater nestled in the heart of Norristown’s Arts Hill District, just announced its 2025/26 season, a lineup showcasing five distinct theatrical experiences, including a world premiere, a beloved musical revue, and two productions created in collaboration with the community.

Bristol Riverside Theatre is launching its 2025-26 mainstage season with Christopher Durang's Tony Award-winning comedy Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike. Learn more!

MusiCoLab will present workshop performances of Red & Black. RED & BLACK, a new musical by Philadelphia-based artists Nick Hatcher, Sheridan Merrick, and David Thomas, asks this question with compelling clarity and originality.

Single tickets for Capital Repertory Theatre's 2025-26 season, will be on sale 12 p.m. Friday, July 25. Learn more about the season and see how to purchase tickets here.

The Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts has announced the appointment of celebrated playwright James Ijames to the Theatre faculty as Associate Professor of Theatre with tenure. 

The Assembly has announced the fifth cohort of its Deceleration Lab, supporting two new collaborative theatre projects: Black Reconstruction in America by Alle Mims and Dezi Tibbs, and 心esthesia by Tianding He, Xuanqi Liu, and Menghang Wu. Public showings to be announced.

Following its recent regional premiere run, Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater is partnering with the League of Live Stream Theater (LOLST) to present a digital on-demand stream of A Summer Day by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Jon Fosse.

Philadelphia-based theater company The Wilma Theater has revealed four productions for its 2025-26 season. See the full lineup here and learn how to purchase tickets.

TheaterWorksUSA's Dog Man: The Musical will embark on a 30-week national tour starting this September. Learn more about the tour stops and see the show in a city near you. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Philadelphia Theatre Company has announced its 2025/26 season, featuring three dynamic mainstage productions and a robust lineup of special programming.

Actress-writer Jessica Lia Berry brings a revived and revitalized version of her acclaimed solo show to the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival. I’M STILL NOT THAT GIRL premieres June 23 and June 28 at Madnani Theater.

Charlie Gilbert, Executive Director of MusiCoLab, the non-profit incubator for new musical theater in Philadelphia, has announced the upcoming workshop presentations of RED & BLACK.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, in partnership with Philadelphia's Theatre Horizon, will present Penelope-a fiercely original musical that finally gives voice to one of history's most enduring-and long-silenced-women. Learn more!

The UK premiere #CHARLOTTESVILLE, Priyanka Shetty’s gripping docu-play on the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally and the rise of white supremacy in America opens at The Pleasance in July.

Theater makers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it is no surprise that the vast majority of the over forty artistic leaders I spoke to in the last two weeks believed they would find a way to survive even without promised National Endowment for the Arts funding. But it won’t be easy.

Manhattan Theatre Source will present the 2025 EstroGenius Festival: ALL IN, a performance festival celebrating dynamo women, trans and gender non-conforming artists. Learn more!