BalletX finished up their 2023-24 regular season with a wide-ranging program of three premiere ballets the showcased the company’s artistic…
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Lewis Whittington writes about the performing and film arts for many publications. He is a renegade dance, theater and opera queen, a jazz-head and a civil activist.
There was a sense of musical occasion for The Fabulous Philadelphians in the Marian Anderson Hall for the third annual…
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker was the keynote speaker for the rededication ceremony of the Marian Anderson Hall in Kimmel Center…
Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka-Salonen was on the Philadelphia Orchestra podium for two weekends in May. The first weekend he conducted Sibelius’s…
Giacomo Puccini premiered Madame Butterfly in 1904 at La Scala in Milan, and to this day it remains one of…
Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Person of Setzuan” is a monster of a play to stage for contemporary audiences, it’s long,…
The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia was sold-out for the opening night of BalletX’s Spring Series with a triple bill featuring…
Under a foggy blue moon, The Willis haunted the Academy of Music stage to the delight of many young balletomanes…
‘The Showman’ by TIME Magazine correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the first year of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and into…
The Academy of Music in Philadelphia at the Jan. 4 performance of ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ The Life and Times of…
Philadelphia Ballet is one of just a few US dance companies licensed to perform George Balanchine’s 1954 minted version of…
To laugh or not to laugh, that is not a question for audiences watching playwright James Ijames ‘Fat Ham’ the…
Stephen Sondheim’s gender flipped revival of ‘Company’ is on tour and playing to full houses at Forrest Theater in Philadelphia,…
The Risk it Takes to Bloom: On Life and LiberationBy Raquel WillisSt. Martin’s Press$29; hardcover; photos www.stmartins.com Black transgender writer…