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After an 18-month closure, The Kimmel Cultural Campus partners with The Philadelphia Orchestra to usher in the return of in-person arts with a FREE reopening celebration – featuring a diverse sampling of festival-style performances and more than 50 arts organizations from across the region!

Local production company Brainchild Stageworkx will open its dark musical comedy loosely based on the legend of the Ferryman on October 1st, 2021.

Up and coming director, Anastassia Vertjanova (Philly Fringe: We're Here Because You Are, The Illustrated Woman; Philly Women's Theatre Fest: Zachary Hates Everything), leads an artistic team in a new devised piece inspired by Ilya Kabakov's early 80's installation 'The Man Who Flew Into Space From

The Chocolate Ballerina Company will bring an all-Black production of The Nutcracker to Philly this year! The Nutcracker: Dipped in Chocolate held auditions last week for performers aged 7-23 to take part in the upcoming production.

Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board has announced additional venues, attractions, and events for their first ever Arts Montco Week.

The curtain will rise again starting with the two-person madcap musical Murder for Two from September 21st to October 10th.

Philadelphia Meteorologist David Murphy has announced his retirement after three decades with WPVI.

The Irish Heritage Theatre announces its Fall 2021 streaming production, The Holy Ground by Dermot Bolger, directed by Peggy Mecham.

Fellow 11th Hour co-founder and previous Artistic Associate Steve Pacek will be appointed as the Transitional Artistic Director this fall.

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The Kimmel Cultural Campus announced today that all guests for public events will be required to show proof of vaccination across their venues: the Kimmel Center, the Academy of Music, and the Merriam Theater.

The Polyphone Festival of New Musicals is an internationally recognized festival for the development of new musical theater at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

EgoPo initiates the Awakening process this fall at lavish Glen Foerd Estate, a public park and museum, in a  beautiful open-air tent along the Delaware River with Alice: not your child's wonderland, a world premiere, site-specific adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Philly POPS raises a glass in a toast to the Chairman with SINATRA: A Man and His Music presented by Citizens, September 24–26, 2021 at the Kimmel Cultural Campus.

TCG Entertainment has announced the World Premiere of an unforgettable live concert experience celebrating the inspiring anthems of MGM's Rocky franchise.

Indecorous Theatre Productions brings discussions of sexuality, gender identity, and queer culture to the forefront in their upcoming production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night for the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Being/With, a new piece by Nichole Canuso Dance Company and curated and presented by FringeArts, is a performance installation that aims to find new ways of connecting communities and individuals through a coordinated personalized experience in geographically separate spaces.

Musicopia has announced the appointment of Antoine J.

The musical follows Charlie, who has taken to her couch as the apocalypse nears with her favorite things: Peanut butter, Wolf Blitzer, and Hershel the Jewish fish.

In reflection of its sustained growth and diversification of programming, The Philly POPS President Frank Giordano announced today the appointment of four Vice Presidents.

Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia's acclaimed creators of interdisciplinary performance, and Swarthmore College will co-present 10 performances of Love Unpunished, a hypnotic dance-theater piece about the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center, as part of the 2021 Philadelph

Join us in The Wasp's Nest, a devised sitcom-style presentation about a zany group of magical beings.

In a huge dive back into live performance, Almanac Dance Circus Theatre will present more than 100 shows, workshops, and events spanning circus, dance, theater, film, and more in its inaugural Cannonball, an independently run satellite festival of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

The production will then travel to Philadelphia (Arcadia Exhibitions/Arcadia University as part of Philadelphia Fringe Festival), Bentonville, AR (the Momentary), and Los Angeles (Hammer Museum, MOCA, and CAP UCLA).

The special pre-season concert, part of the Mann's Summer Picnic Series, reunites the “dueling tenors” for the first live performance in North America of music from their critically acclaimed 2020 album, Amici e Rivali (Friends & Rivals), featuring arias and duets from some of Rossini's most b