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On June 14, 2020, BalletX partnered with Works and Process at the Guggenheim to co-present four world premieres on-line by choreographers Hope Boykin, Caili Quan, Penny Saunders, and Rena Butler.
On Sunday afternoon, February 2, 2020, Opera Philadelphia presented the second and last performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem. Opera Philadelphia last performed Verdi’s Requiem in 1986. Although there have been many changes over 34 years, 15 orchestra members and one chorister remained to perform it again. There were two performances at Philadelphia’s jewel of an…
Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera Albert Herring was given a fine production by Curtis Opera Theatre on March 5, 2020, at the lovely, intimate Perelman Theater Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (1913-1976), was an English composer, conductor, and musician who dominated classical music for most of the 20th century. Among his many famous works are Peter…
Do you love musicals, great dancing, a compelling story, and happy endings? Then get yourself and a few friends, neighbors, and polyamorous lovers to Philadelphia’s Academy of Music to see this award-winning Broadway hit, the amazing Hello Dolly! Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to have seen The Matchmaker, a 1958 film with screenplay by Thornton…
Princeton University Concerts presented a stellar trio of performers in a Beethoven Program on February 6. Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Alexander Melnikov undertook the “Kakadu” Variations, Op. 121a in G Major, the Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70, No.2, and the Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, the “Archduke.” At 7:00PM, a Warm Up…
Shrek The Musical is now playing at Philadelphia’s historic Walnut Street Theatre until January 5, 2020.
Nine-time Emmy Award winner Tina Fey brings her hit Broadway musical Mean Girls to the Academy of Music now until December 1, 2019. This national touring production of Mean Girls is part of the Kimmel Center’s Broadway Philadelphia season.
The Lantern Theater Company is now presenting Anna Ziegler’s drama The Last Match in Philadelphia until December 15.
Pennsylvania Ballet presented three World Premieres November 7 through 10 at Philadelphia’s historic Merriam Theater.
Tiny Beautiful Things is a play based upon the best-selling eponymous book by Cheryl Strayed, which is a compilation of advice from Cheryl Strayed writing under the name “Sugar” from 2010-2012 for the online literary journal Rumpus.