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Fresh off its Off-Broadway run at the Players Theatre earlier this year, Catching Fireflies, a new queer musical, will make its Philadelphia debut at the 2025 Fringe Festival from September 19–24.

Philadelphia Theatre Company has announced its 2025–2026 season, featuring three bold mainstage productions and a lineup of special events, youth programming, and community engagement.

Celebrated Philadelphia performer Severin Blake will debut their first solo work, Labyrinth of the Other (LOTO), this September as part of the Cannonball Festival.

They're back! For the 2nd Annual International Black + Indigenous Circus Week, ANKOLE - a BIPOC Queer Circus Arts and Wellness Community, will debut their newest work NFRW/T.

For the fifth consecutive season, Bristol Township residents can experience the magic of live theatre for just $10.

Philadelphia-based artists and Arcadia University alumni Christina Healey and Sarah King will present A LATTE OF LOVE at The Little Theater at Arcadia University.

Penn Live Arts has announced two exciting additions to its 2025–26 season lineup: the internationally acclaimed a cappella group Naturally 7, performing one night only on March 6, 2026, and Blind Summit Theatre’s critically acclaimed puppet comedy The Sex Lives of Puppets, running February 4–7

The Philly Pops will be performing at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts for an electrifying concert featuring the boundary-breaking musical phenomenon Jacob Collier.

Doylestown Theatre Academy (DTA) is inviting audiences to tumble down the rabbit hole with its upcoming production of Alice in Wonderland next month.

Philadelphia's Cannonball Festival will present the premiere production of revelations from the first and last ever rehearsal of THEY SAY I DID SOMETHING BAD: an unauthorized taylor swift parody musical about the life of the unabomber ted kaczynski presented by the bridgebrook college drama club.

LET'S MAKE AN ALBUM! A new immersive musical performance series by Jaden Alvaro Gines and Philadelphia pop-punk outfit Happier Than Ever, will mark its world premiere this fall in the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

The Shawnee Playhouse, celebrating its forty-sixth season, will present Nunsense beginning performances this week.

First performed in Philly Fringe 2018, and later Edinburgh 2019, Chris Davis’ The Presented has been updated to address the challenges of making art in 2025 asking: where do we go from here?

Bucks County Playhouse will continue its summer season with a new revival of the beloved musical romance “She Loves Me,” directed and choreographed by two-time Tony-nominee Denis Jones.

The Shawnee Playhouse will present Mean Girls Jr.

Slippery Trout Productions and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company have joined forces to bring Dogberry and Verges are Scared to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Bucks County Playhouse has revealed the lineup of education programs being offered this summer.

Theatre in the X will present its summer production of Fraternity, a thought-provoking drama by acclaimed playwright Jeff Stetson.

Grammy-nominated performer and composer Nathalie Joachim, a Haitian American artist hailed for being “a fresh and invigorating cross-cultural voice” (The Nation) will serve as Opera Philadelphia’s Composer in Residence for the upcoming 2025-2026 Season.

Maddy Gillespie and John Fioravanti will star in the Philadelphia premiere of Yale Drama Series-shortlisted playwright Michael Quinn's romantic comedy Get It Together.

FringeArts has announced the full curated lineup for the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, running September 4–28 and featuring over 320 performances and experiences across the city.

Bucks County Playhouse is continuing the new book club series with “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

The Shawnee Playhouse will bring the electrifying energy of GREASE to life this summer, with performances running from July 18 through August 17, 2025.

Exploring the theme of “chosen family,” the theatre’s upcoming 16th season presents Wallace Thurman’s Fire!!, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, Shakespeare’s Rare Accidents, and Moliere’s The Hypochondriac.

A young Jewish girl wants to write music.