Theater

A middle-class black family in Philadelphia get their lives shaken up when a smart-talking niece from the country comes to live with them. This comedic play set in the 1970s deals with the clash between middle-class and working-class Black folks with sharp wit, a whirlwind of humor, and heart.

When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon must risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. Comic dynamo Jennifer Childs directs the Philadelphia premiere of this all-female farce – a hilarious homage to the […]

Lombardi, a play written by Academy Award winner Eric Simonson, (2005 Documentary short) brings to life legendary football coach Vince Lombardi during a week in the 1965 NFL season when he coached the Green Bay Packers. The play, based on the book When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss, premiered in 2010 at Circle on […]

Josefina is a stand-up comic from Philadelphia coming to terms with the recent death of her mother, as well as her sister’s sudden illness, just as her comedy career is taking off. Written by Philadelphia’s own Erlina Ortiz, Co-Artistic Director of Power Street Theatre, this funny and touching new play features sidesplitting stand-up as it […]

Esperanza Arts Center presents NICHOS WORLD PREMIERE Tanaquil Márquez | Ximena Violante | Calo Rosa October 17-27, 2024 What is the cultural essence that endures in Mexican identity? Tanaquil Márquez , Ximena Violante, and Calo Rosa present NICHOS, a multidisciplinary theater creation that traces the evolution of Mexican culture through 500 years of conquest, colonization, […]

A sexy and hilarious tale about an uninhibited actress who barges into an audition room just when the director is ready to give up for the day. As she fights to win the part, the power slowly changes hands as she turns the tide on the writer-director and his ideas about seduction. Hailed as “seriously […]

Amsterdam, by Maya Arad Yasur, is a timely play about the bills that always come due. Four performers acting as storytellers introduce us to an ex-pat Israeli musician whose dreams of assimilation into the European arts world are upended by the mysterious delivery of an unpaid gas bill – from 1944. The implications of the […]

Join Peter Pan on an adventure to Neverland, a magical island where there are no parents, no chores, and fairies and pirates rule! Introduce your children and grandchildren to the characters you love from J.M. Barrie’s timeless masterpiece: Wendy Darling, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, a horde of Lost Boys, and one very hungry crocodile. With […]

The Tempest By William Shakespeare Directed by Douglas C Wager December 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th. Tomlinson Theater @ 2020 N. 13th St, Philadelphia, PA. It is such stuff as dreams are made on. For a dozen years, isolated on an enchanted island, Prospero has contemplated revenge on his usurper brother while caring for his […]

Using electric cello, dance, puppetry, and storytelling, White Box Theatre tells the story of Kea Tawana. Kea built an 86-foot-long, three-story ark single-handedly in Newark's Central Ward as an act of protest, tenacity, and imagination. Join us for this exquisite and intimate 60-minute performance that’s appropriate for all ages. Dates and Times Dec. 20: 5 […]

What everyone agreed on: Two cars collided. One, driven by a Hasidic Jew, veered off the road and critically injured two Black children. A crowd formed. Police arrived. What no one agreed on: Anything else. In the summer of 1991, Crown Heights, NY exploded into three days of violence fed by rumors and competing narratives […]

The Wilma Theater presents Half-God of Rainfall, a story by Nigerian-born British poet and playwright Inua Ellams. Blending Yoruba and Greek mythologies, it tells the incredible tale of a demigod who becomes an NBA superstar. The epic poem follows a half-Nigerian mortal, half-Greek God named Demi, who possesses extraordinary powers yet is burdened by the […]

A ground-breaking ninety-minute new musical, Night Side Songs explores the intimacy of illness, mortality, and the incredible dignity of caregivers through the story of Yasmine Holly, a fictional character informed by interviews with real doctors, hospital staff, and patients, many from right here in Philadelphia. Night Side Songs is a musical convergence that reflects and […]