Zinzi Clemmons, who grew up in Yeadon and Swarthmore, will speak 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Central Library. She talks about how she discovered writing, and how that discovery led to what she calls "a coming-of-age novel about life, about growing up, about sex and death."
It was a crazy idea, and it worked: Christopher Dayett's musical "Dorian Gray" runs for three nights this week off-Broadway. From its first reading 13 months ago, his Villanova University thesis project has gone on to be selected by the New York Musical Festival for a three-day run Wednesday, Thursday...
NEW YORK (AP) - The publishers of a best-seller about the making of "Hamilton" are hoping for similar luck with another prize-winning musical, "Dear Evan Hansen."
Sixty-three teens? You go, Moorestown Theater Company. All ages take part in shows, with the occasional local ringer. Insane is their summer: Disney's High School Musical Jr. (through Friday); Wizard of Oz (July 20-23 and 26-29) with 6ABC's Rick Williams as Cowardly Lion; Willy Wonka Jr. (Aug. 2-3);...
Summer Stage is one of a handful of theaters in the country which will produce a stage adaptation of Disney's hit film, "Hunchback of Notre Dame."
FESTIVALS Bastille Day at Eastern State Penitentiary This Saturday, relive a revolution. Eastern State Penitentiary’s playful annual celebration...
The Broadway Theatre in Pitman offers a stellar show.
REV co-founder Rudy Caporaso delivers an over-the-top turn as a hysterical, narcissistic Hamlet in a disappointing outdoor performance.
The Barnes Foundation is no stranger to all-night presentations, and in its tradition of art on the cutting edge is presenting Midnight Vigil: A Delirious Encounter with Divine Inspiration starting 11:59 p.m. Saturday.
For more than a decade, the transformation of blighted urban areas into glistening global beacons for trendy coffee shops and well-heeled whites has commanded national headlines. Rarely do the articles reveal the behind-the-scenes machinations that result in the systematic displacement of tens of thousands...
New This Week Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven, N.J.) Tale of the all-time brother, reader of dreams. Tuesday through July 23.
The "Wicked" Tony winner, voice of Elsa, and famously flubbed boldface name plays the BB&T Pavilion Sunday, July 16.
Audience engagement has expanded to new venues and new groups of arts appreciators.
The acquisitions include work by a number of women artists.
Former Inquirer reporter Mark Bowden interviewed more than 100 American and Vietnamese men and women for his new book, 'Huế 1968,' an account of one of the bloodiest and longest battles in the Vietnam War. Bowden will talk about the book Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
