The Philadelphia Ballet’s ‘New Works for a New World’ program features newly commissioned premieres by choreographers Juliano Nunes, Alba Castillo…
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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.
A Life of Picasso IV’ The Minotaur Years is art historian John Richardson’s fine line portrait of the revolutionary artist…
Virtuoso trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is musical director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and as a composer most known for…
The Django Festival AllStars is currently back on tour in the US, and in Philadelphia on November 6 for a…
In October, the Philadelphia Orchestra appeared in Verizon Hall for the first time in 18 months. Yannick Nezet-Seguin led the…
In July, BalletX kicked their return to in-person performances with a program of premieres in the open-air Mann Center in…
In the early 80s, John Lurie went from being an out of work musician living basement in New York’s Alphabet…
Liz Brown’s “Twilight Man” is the dual biographies of Harrison Post, and a middle-aged philanthropist named Will Clark, Jr. who…
Graham Greene was one of the 20th century’s most successful novelists, from the droll theatrics of ‘Travels with My Aunt’…
The Pennsylvania Ballet is the largest dance company in Philadelphia and as most of the other smaller companies have been…
BalletX has been confronted with an industry shutdown of theaters and venues with a slate of specific limitations to work…
The Philadelphia Orchestra musicians are together again on the Verizon Hall stage in Philadelphia, in masks or positioned behind Plexiglas…
Philadelphia Orchestra maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin returned to the stage with the orchestra after six months, on the day it was…
The Wilma Theater has been redesigned as a multi-tiered amphitheater to frame Rajiv Joseph’s provocative 2017 political play ‘Describe the…