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Everybody look around! The Tony Award®-winning Best Musical that took the world by storm is back and coming to the Appell Center. THE WIZ returns “home” to the Strand Theatre in an all-new tour, direct from Broadway. The Baltimore Sun raves “Powerhouse performances. Stunning...
Spend an intimate evening with Michael Feinstein at Keswick Theatre on November 1st. In addition to his recognition as one of the leading musical entertainers and piano virtuosos of recent decades, Michael Feinstein’s work as an educator, archivist, interpreter, and widely...
Lakecia Benjamin is a six-time GRAMMY nominated New York-based saxophonist, arranger, composer, and educator whose music blends R&B, jazz, and funk. She honed her craft with Clark Terry and Terri Lyne Carrington and has served as accompanist for vocalists including Gregory...
Music executive and author Erin Riley discusses her new book, The Mighty WMMR: An Oral History of Philadelphia's Rock Radio Revolution, as part of the Playhouse's free Spotlight Series. The conversation begins at 4:15 pm, following the 1:30 pm matinee of Rock of Ages, and...
Broadway à la Nero is a celebration of the Broadway sound through the musical lens of Grammy Award-winning pianist and Philly Pops Emeritus Music Director Peter Nero. The concert features Broadway star Hugh Panaro, pianist Charlie Albright, and the Philly Pops Chorus, under the...
Come, be amazed, be mystified, laugh and, maybe, feel a little shiver of terror travel down your spine. Samelson invites you to experience Devils ‘N Details. October is the month of Magic, when Witches and Devils come out to play … After his highly acclaimed performance Cold...
Broadway legend Stephen Schwartz — the Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award–winning composer of Wicked, Pippin, Godspell, Pocahontas, and others — comes to Lancaster County for a once-in-a-lifetime benefit event at Rock Lititz. At the piano, Schwartz offers his most treasured songs and...
The 8-Bit Big Band is a multi-GRAMMY Award-winning symphonic jazz orchestra dedicated to reimagining beloved music from video games, under the direction of bandleader Charlie Rosen. The ensemble blends the power of a full big band with the nostalgia and emotional depth of iconic...
America’s LARGEST interactive true crime mystery dinner show is now playing in Philadelphia, PA! At The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, you’ll tackle a challenging crime while you feast on a fantastic dinner. Just beware! The criminal is lurking somewhere in the...
Two one-act dark comedies by Michael Roche, who also directs both. Cause It's My Birthday, B*tch follows estranged brothers Andrew and Ryan, whose reunion is complicated by a valuable baseball, an outspoken friend named Jane, and a kidnapped Delivery Guy. The cast includes Ryan...
By Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen | Directed by Ken Kaissar Sink your teeth into this wild, fast-paced, laugh-out-loud reinvention of the classic vampire tale. Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors is filled with outrageous humor, quick-change performances, and a delightfully modern...
Girl from the North Country weaves some of Bob Dylan's most iconic songs, including Forever Young, Hurricane, and Like a Rolling Stone, into a Depression-era story of strangers whose lives intersect inside a run-down boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota. Rather than using the...
Liberation, written by Bess Wohl and directed by PTC Co-Artistic Director Taibi Magar, is the Philadelphia premiere of a play set in a small-town Ohio rec center in the early 1970s. The play follows a group of women who gather for a consciousness-raising meeting, sharing stories...
The first opera by Courtney Bryan, an Opera Philadelphia Composer in Residence from 2022-2024, bringing new life to Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer, about a family secret and a mother's desperate attempt to silence the truth. Libretto by Gideon Lester and Daniel Fish...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Music by Alan Menkin · Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz · Book by Peter Parnell Based on the Novel Victor Hugo Presented by Players on High at the Carlisle Theatre [2026/2027 Mainstage Season] Performance Run: October 16-25 (7 Shows) · Rating: PG-13 From...
Part of the Arts of India Festival A special double bill of Penn Live Arts debuts! Violinist Arun Ramamurthy and his trio offer “a beautiful, exotic, ear-opening listening experience” with its fusion of jazz and South Indian Carnatic traditions. Performing music from his latest...
The Afro-Cuban All Stars are a renowned Cuban orchestra led by Juan de Marcos González, dedicated to promoting the full spectrum of Cuban music from son montuno to timba. The ensemble was famously central to the 1997 Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon and blends traditional...
John Bundy & Morgan Tricks’N’Treats Proclaimed Halloween magic’s greatest innovators by Magic Magazine, Bundy and Morgan have spent over 35 years as guest artists at the world’s biggest Halloween parties at Six Flags, Cedar Fair and Busch Garden theme parks. Featured in the...
ActorsNET presents their 30th Season opening production of "You Can't Take It With You" by by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman! When Alice Sycamore falls in love with her boss’s son, she hopes their families will hit it off – but the wildly unconventional Sycamores and the...
Written and performed by Priyanka Shetty and directed by Yury Urnov, #CHARLOTTESVILLE is a tour-de-force solo performance about the power of witnessing. Constructed verbatim from more than one hundred firsthand interviews with Charlottesville residents, court transcripts, and...
A new generation of tap dancers team up with tap icons, musicians and historians to share traditional and innovative Philly tap inspired by the legacy of the late Philly Tap Master, LaVaughn Robinson. The festival features community classes, showcases, lunches, walking tours...
Part of the Arts of India Festival Sitar maestro Niladri Kumaar is a maverick musician and acclaimed ambassador for Indian music. A frequent collaborator with tabla icon Zakir Hussain, Kumaar makes his Penn Live Arts debut in the Philadelphia premiere of The Space Between the...
Vocalist Chelsea Reed joins the Philly Pops Jazz Combo for an afternoon celebrating the classic jazz vocal songbook of artists who shaped Philadelphia's musical history. The performance is part of the Philly Pops Neighborhood Concerts series in collaboration with Artcinia, held...
Set on Hollywood's legendary Sunset Strip, Rock of Ages follows small-town dreamers Sherrie and Drew as they chase love and rock-and-roll stardom against a soundtrack packed with hits made famous by Journey, Bon Jovi, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister and Poison. The...
A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, this magnificently unhinged hit musical features everyone's favorite creepy, kooky characters. Wednesday Addams has fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family, and she confides in her father...
The party's roaring on Broadway! THE GREAT GATSBY is a “great, big Broadway extravaganza that explodes with life and energy” (Entertainment Weekly). Directed by Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), this story of extravagance and longing features choreography by...
“Twists, deception, and heart-pounding suspense.” DCP Theatre Presents the Thriller/Mystery Wait Until Dark A thriller by Frederick Knott adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher Directed by Geoff Yaroschak Sponsored by M&T Bank Show runs Oct 23-Nov. 1, 2026 Oct. 23, 24, 30, 31 (7:30pm) Oct...
Celebrate America and American ballet with the Philadelphia Ballet's Stars and Stripes Forever!…
As the group Straight No Chaser sings, 'Five hundred twenty five thousand choirs have sung this... thanks to the writer, we all leave sad.' Without detail - yes, true. Jonathan Larson died before opening night of his own show about death and dying and drugs and rent strikes, leaving a show that fe…
The forests of Scotland in the lush foliage of Longwood Gardens is the best possible set…
Blurb: Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved South Pacific sails into Bucks County Playhouse with soaring performances, standout choreography, and a Broadway-caliber cast led by Ryan Silverman, Alexandra Socha, Ann Sanders, and Mike Schwitter. Director Denis Jones delivers a vibrant revival that proves …
In what has become a much-anticipated event to close each season, the Philadelphia Ballet returned to Board Chairman David F. Hoffman’s lovely Red Rose Farm for the seventh time in a celebration of dance and volunteers, and a chance for benefactors to enjoy fabulous dance in a pastoral setting and…
Tony nominee Elizabeth Davis takes on Liz Taylor’s role as Maggie the Cat and proves to have her own claws…
I knew Mandy Gonzalez could sing, even belt, but I was unprepared for the power house she truly is. Mixing elements from her own life, insight on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s background and his influences, the Philly Pops with conductor Chris Dragon, special guest José Mendez, humour, great music, and am…
Philadelphia Ballet's Holiday Staple The Nutcracker Returns to the Academy of Music in Center City Through New Year's Eve.…
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An Intimate Evening with Michael Feinstein The Keswick Theatre (11/01-11/01) |
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THE WIZ Appell Center for the Performing Arts (10/21-10/21) |
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Bun in the Oven: Contractions with the Calamari Sisters Bristol Riverside Theatre (11/11-11/15) |
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Cirque Éloize: ID EVOLUTION Zellerbach Theatre (1/23-1/23) |
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Jon Stetson's ♦ Ladies Only Psychic Party Smoke & Mirrors Theater (11/22-11/22) |
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Peter Samelson - Devils ‘N Details Smoke & Mirrors Theater (10/23-10/24) |
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Be Here Now Old Academy Players (1/08-1/24) |
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Choir! Choir! Choir! Un-Silent Night: An Epic Holiday Sing-Along Zellerbach Theatre (12/18-12/18) |
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Delbert Anderson Quartet Harold Prince Theatre (1/24-1/24) |
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The Lifespan of a Fact Act II Playhouse (10/06-11/08) |
