Long before he became a worldwide star redefining the notion of heroism in Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman made a different kind of impact with this extraordinary play. Written in 2005, it blends ...

Male and female restaurant servers dressed in black bow ties singing opera at Victor's - Leif Skoogfors/Getty Images Italian immigrant John DiStefano opened the future restaurant in 1918 in South ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A portion of S.W. Wanamaker Road in west Topeka will be closed to traffic on Wednesday, city officials said. The “short-term closure” is scheduled for Wednesday on Wanamaker Road ...

Opera Philadelphia is set to present Gregory Spears’ latest work “Sleepers Awake.” Premiering April 22-26 at the Academy of Music, Spears creates a labyrinthine soundscape to accompany a dream-like ...

The Philadelphia Historical Commission recently approved the first steps of the planned reuse of the Wanamaker Building’s Grand Court, writes Kimberly Haas for Hidden City. Meanwhile, the first-floor ...

In his first commission for Opera Philadelphia, Gregory Spears, the composer acclaimed for works that blend “touches of minimalism with post-Romantic lyricism and hints of Schubertian majesty” ...

Records are a guarantee to fall at the Millrose Games, but first time winners found their way to the roar of The Armory in New York last Sunday. Cam Myers denied Yared Nuguse a fourth straight title ...

The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner is trying something new — instead of a musical for Broadway, he's written an opera, now playing in Philadelphia. Most productions of operas lead with the ...

Most productions of operas lead with the composer's name and ignore the writer. It's Puccini's "La Boheme" or Verdi's "La Traviata." But a new opera, "Complications In Sue," which opens tonight in ...