Aaron Levy was a prominent land speculator in Colonial Pennsylvania. A Jewish immigrant from Amsterdam, he founded Aaronsberg in Centre County, the first city in the United States designed by and named for a person of Jewish descent.
View More Famous Philadelphians: Aaron Levy (1742-1815)
Choreographer Daniel Ezralow is back in town to add some extra decoration to a much-loved holiday tradition.
View More Philadanco’s X-MAS PHILES keeps giving
Tom Stoppard talks THE HARD PROBLEM with cognitive scientist David Chalmers.
View More A Night With Tom Stoppard: The playwright visits the Wilma to talk about his latest play
Celebrating her 46th year as artistic director of the Philadelphia Dance Company, Joan Myers Brown continues to break barriers while preserving rich dance traditions.
View More Joan Myers Brown Talks Christmas and THE X-MAS PHILES
Interview with a Drexel professor taking 10 students to study with Cuban filmmakers.
View More Our Man in Havana: Gerard Hooper takes Drexel film students to Cuba
Part one of the first-ever interview with Susan Turlish, playwright of Society Hill Playhouse’s smash hit LAFFERTY’S WAKE
View More “No Irish Wake is considered a success without one mighty, knockdown, knockout fight!”: Interview with LAFFERTY’S WAKE playwright Susan Turlish
Philadelphia DANCE’s give their annual round-up of dance shows onstage this holiday season.
View More The Nutcracker and Other Favorites: Philadelphia DANCE’s annual holiday guide to gance in Philadelphia
Paul Kuhn is perhaps the finest designer in Philadelphia’s independent theater. He tells Phindie about his prop design for a site-specific production of Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER.
View More Arming GABLER: Prop designer Paul Kuhn talks about his work on HEDDA GABLER
A transformative force behind one of the city’s premier annual cultural events, Ernesta Drinker Ballard was also leading local and national figure in the campaign…
View More Famous Philadelphians: Ernesta Drinker Ballard (1920–2005)
If you don’t think every play is about sex, you shouldn’t be making theater.
View More Is It Always About Sex? Director Kittson O’Neill on the sexual politics of THE ROVER
Philadelphia is in for a musical treat: an Italian cantata based on original writings of Hildegard.
View More From Assisi to Philadelphia: U.S. premiere of Italian cantata celebrating the extraordinary life of Hildegard von Bingen
2015 Barrymore Awards recipients by award category
View More And the Winners Are… 2015 Barrymore Award winners
Excitement, surprising winners, and a brand new award: Barrymore director Steve Pacek tells us whats in store at this years ceremony.
View More Directing the Barrymores: Steve Pacek on putting together the award ceremony
Henrik Eger interviews Peggy Mecham about JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, the second part of playwright Sean O’Casey’s “Dublin Trilogy”.
View More Peggy and the PAYCOCK: Interview with Peggy Mecham of Irish Heritage Theatre
Opera Philadelphia announces its new cutting-edge direction with a twelve-day urban opera festival that will debut in September 2017.
View More Opera Is Now Open: Opera Philadelphia Unveils its Plans for O17
Pasión y Arte, an all-female flamenco dance company based in Philadelphia presents the first of a quarterly performance series.
View More Wine, Tapas, Flamenco! Pasión y Arte presents a contemporary take on a classic tablao
Frédéric François Chopin’s expressive and technically demanding piano concertos are among the finest in the classical music canon. So naturally, Polish actor Barbara Wysocka and director Michael Zadara…
View More Chopin As He Was Meant To Be Heard: Without the piano
New exhibit focuses on the choreographic works and also the lesser-known drawings created by dance maker Trisha Brown.
View More Art Exhibit Celebrates Trisha Brown’s Creative Milieu
Part 2 of Lew Whittington’s series on gay identities in dance
View More Dancing around the glass closet, Part 2: Gay identities in dance
Desmond Richardson, cofounder of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, talks about the company as it starts its 21st season with three premieres in Philadelphia.
View More BEYOND 20, beyond boundaries: Complexions Contemporary Ballet kicks off its 21st season in Philadelphia