Performing Arts

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Penn receives $5 million gift to build new 325-seat performing arts theater

Fringe Festival announces 2025 lineup with 320 acts — more than ever before

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Opera Philadelphia will let customers choose their own $11 seats for upcoming season

$11 opera

Garces Trading Co. closes its Kimmel Center cafe one year after it opened

Graces Trading Co Kimmel Closure

Patti Scialfa, Tony Orlando among 2023 New Jersey Hall of Fame inductees

Penn unveils designs for $75 million performing arts center

Penn Performing Arts Center

Jill Biden, Paul Rudd among nominees for 2023 New Jersey Hall of Fame

'Arts and Culture Recovery Week' comes to Philadelphia this July

Arts and Culture Recovery Week

Bruce Springsteen, Tina Fey memorabilia to be sold at benefit auction

Live events spaces across Philly to light up in red in support of entertainment workers impacted by pandemic

Philly live events spaces red alert

LGBTQ productions take center stage during 2020 Philly Theatre Week

Philly Theatre Weeks Ants Log

Speakeasy-style cabaret bar opening in converted auto body shop

Late Night Snacks is cabaret bar opening in East Passyunk

Performing Arts

Photos from a BalletX rehearsal of 'The Little Prince'

Carroll - BalletX Rehearsal of The Little Prince

Performing Arts

Cirque du Soleil acrobats tour the streets (and Rocky Steps) of Philadelphia

Carroll - Cirque Amaluna

Behind the scene at Cirque du Soleil's CRYSTAL in South Philadelphia

Carroll - Cirque du Soleil Crystal

Performing Arts

Rob Lowe on his one-man show, his Philly connection and 'trusting the process'

Rob Lowe

A sneak peek of Cirque du Soleil’s CRYSTAL

Carroll - Cirque du Soleil's CRYSTAL

PHOTOS: Local churches set the stage for new dance performance

Carroll - Dance rehearsal Church of the Advocate

PHOTOS: Dancers rehearse on Strawberry Mansion Reservoir

Carroll - Trisha Brown Dance Company Raft Piece

PHOTOS: Mütter Museum Superstition Party

Dillon - Mtter Museum

The Mann Center is being renovated just in time for summer concert season

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PHOTOS: BalletX rehearses for upcoming Spring Series

Carroll - BalletX rehearsal

What to see during Philly Theatre Week: A guide to the fresh and standout performances

Theatre Week

PHOTOS: Tony Award-winning 'Once' at the Arden Theatre

Carroll - ONCE Rehearsal at Arden Theatre

PHOTOS: 'The Ghostly Circus: Dante's Inferno'

Carroll - The Ghostly Circus

PHOTOS: New Cirque du Soleil routine sets the [handle]bar even higher

Carroll - Cirque du Soleil Volta rehearsal

FEASTIVAL, annual culinary and live arts party, is changing things up for 2018

FEASTIVAL

The wait is almost over for Cirque du Soleil's 'Volta'

Cirque du Soleil is coming to Philadelphia with their new show Viola

PHOTOS: Catch this stunning mermaid acrobat performing weekly on the Moshulu

Carroll - Aerialist performs on The Deck at the Moshulu

PHOTOS: How I ended up on a giant chandelier more than 50-feet above the Schuylkill

Carroll - PIFA Press event for Cristal Palace

Gallery: Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Pennsylvania Ballet

Photos: The Nutcracker returns for 2017 season

PA Ballet's The Nutcracker

Painted Bride Center announces plan to sell its iconic Old City building

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Performing Arts

Local performers to put on free show on Friday the 13th

Performing Arts

15 photos from the Ghostly Circus – beautifully bizarre, it's held within a historic cemetery

Carroll - Ghostly Circus

10 photos of acrobats performing 'DreamCycle' (in various states of undress)

Carroll - Cirque Us

Gallery: Behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil's 'TORUK - The First Flight'

Carroll - Cirque du Soleil TORUK

Broadway veteran opens local training ground for young performing artists

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Performing Arts

Gallery: Cirque Éloize performs at CHOP

Carroll - Cirque Eloize Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

'Living film + rock show + ghost play' coming to Christ Church Neighborhood House

Kimmel Center introduces BYOB shows

Kimmel Center

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