The Comeuppance
9/19 - 12/8/2024
From the boundary-pushing, Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (An Octoroon), this electrifying comedy is a meditation on impermanence, nostalgia, and isolation. Anticipating their 20-year high ...
The Half-God of Rainfall
2/11 - 3/2/2025
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 ...
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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company & The Wilma Theater to Co-Produce THE COMEUPPANCE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 21, 2024
Woolly Mammoth Theatre in DC and the Wilma Theater in Philly will team up to co-produce THE COMEUPPANCE. Learn how to purchase tickets....
Lantern Theater Company to Continue 30th Anniversary Season With CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY By Lynn Nottage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 03, 2023
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ETERNAL LIFE PART 1 At The Wilma Theater Now Streaming
by A.A. Cristi - May 01, 2023
Digital theater pioneer the Wilma Theater is offering a streaming version of its onstage production ETERNAL LIFE PART 1, which was written by Nathan Alan Davis and directed by Morgan Green, who directed the world premiere digital production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning FAT HAM. The production will ...
Photos: First Look at Inis Nua Theatre Company's MEET ME AT DAWN
by Blair Ingenthron - February 19, 2023
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Past Shows
'Can I Be Frank' by Morgan Bassichis
10/25 - 10/26/2024
In a desperate attempt to prove they can think about someone other than themself, Morgan Bassichis revisits queer comedian, musician, and performance artist Frank Maya’s ...
'Can I Be Frank' by Morgan Bassichis
10/25 - 10/26/2024
In a desperate attempt to prove they can think about someone other than themself, Morgan Bassichis revisits queer comedian, musician, and performance artist Frank Maya’s ...
Dog Man: The Musical
9/26 - 10/15/2024
Best buds George and Harold have been creating comics for years, but now that they’re in 5th grade, they figure it’s time to level up ...
My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion
1/30 - 2/18/2024
Sasha’s 82-year-old mother has lived in Kyiv her whole life. When Russia invades Ukraine in 2022, Sasha copes with her fears by imagining her mother ...
10 Days in a Madhouse
9/21 - 9/30/2023
Is she insane? Or just pretending? This psychological drama follows trailblazing reporter Nellie Bly through her internment at Blackwell's Asylum, exposing, as Bly did, notions ...
Twelfth Night
6/6 - 6/25/2023
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY YURY URNOV June 6–25, 2023 The Wilma boldly reimagines Shakespeare’s beloved romantic comedy, set on a beach in the summertime. ...
Theatre Horizon: Jaylene Clark Owens, Hollis Heath, Janelle Heatley, Chyann Sapp....
Describe the Night
1/28 - 2/16/2020
Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph traces the stories of seven men and ...
Describe the Night
1/28
Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph traces the stories of seven men and ...
Dance Nation
10/22 - 11/10/2019
Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw ...
There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other
9/11 - 9/22/2019
adapt: Rosa Barba, Blanka Zizka from Etel Adnan; music: Alex Dowling....
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
10/23 - 11/11/2018
What will endure when the cataclysm arrives – when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we’re faced with the task of rebuilding? Anne Washburn’s imaginative ...
Passing Strange
1/10 - 2/18/2018
Stew ; book: Stew ; lyrics: Stew ; music: Stew , Heidi Rodewald; dir: Tea Alagic. The Wilma Theater:...
Blood Wedding
10/25 - 11/19/2017
In Tanya Ronder’s spare, yet strikingly beautiful modern translation Lorca’s Blood Wedding finds a refreshing new and compelling poetic world while retaining its sumptuous language ...
Adapt!
3/22 - 4/22/2017
Blanka Zizka; music: Mariana Sadovska; dir: Blanka Zizka....
Constellations
1/11 - 2/5/2017
This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world ...
Seuls
11/29 - 12/11/2016
Wajdi Mouawad; dir: Wajdi Mouawad....
Seuls
11/29 - 12/11/2016
Wajdi Mouawad; dir: Wajdi Mouawad....
When the Rain Stops Falling
10/12 - 11/6/2016
Andrew Bovell; dir: Blanka Zizka....
When the Rain Stops Falling
10/12 - 11/6/2016
Andrew Bovell; dir: Blanka Zizka....
Notes of a Native Song
9/5 - 9/11/2016
Stew , Heidi Rodewald....
Notes of a Native Song
9/5 - 9/11/2016
Stew , Heidi Rodewald....
The Christians
5/4 - 5/29/2016
Ten years ago, Pastor Paul's church was a modest storefront. Now it houses thousands, with a coffee shop in the lobby and a baptismal font ...
An Octoroon
3/16 - 4/10/2016
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; dir: Joanna Settle....
The Hard Problem
1/6 - 2/6/2016
Tom Stoppard; dir: Blanka Zizka....
Antigone
10/7 - 11/8/2015
After a case of sibling rivalry culminates in civil war, King Creon of Thebes forbids anyone from burying the traitor who started it in this ...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
5/20 - 6/14/2015
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of ...
Hamlet
3/25 - 4/19/2015
William Shakespeare; dir: Blanka Zizka....
The Body of an American
1/7 - 2/1/2015
Dan O?Brien; dir: Michael John Garc...
Don Juan Comes Back From Iraq (working title)
3/16 - 4/20/2014
Paula Vogel....
Cherokee
1/8 - 2/5/2014
Lisa D?Amour....
The Convert
10/9 - 11/10/2013
Danai Gurira....
Bootycandy
5/15 - 6/16/2013
The Wilma Theater: - Robert O'Hara....
Under the Whaleback
3/6 - 4/7/2013
The Wilma Theater: - Richard Bean....
Assistance
1/2 - 2/3/2013
The Wilma Theater: - Leslye Headland....
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
5/23 - 7/1/2012
The most honored play in a generation concludes the Wilma’s 2011/2012 Season – and then returns for the 20th Anniversary of Part Two: Perestroika to ...
Curse of the Starving Class
3/7 - 4/3/2012
Body Awareness
1/4 - 2/5/2012
Director Anne Kauffman thrilled Wilma audiences in 2010 with the smash hit Becky Shaw, winning a Barrymore for Best Director. She returns to Philadelphia next ...
Videos
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An Evening with Peter Billingsley and A Christmas Story
Keswick Theatre (12/4 - 12/4) | |
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Darlene Love
Keswick Theatre (12/13 - 12/13) | |
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s Wild and Swingin’ Holiday Party
Keswick Theatre (12/5 - 12/5) | |
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Linda Eder
Keswick Theatre (3/27 - 3/27) | |
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Postmodern Jukebox
Keswick Theatre (12/12 - 12/12) | |
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American Moor
Lantern Theater Company (11/7 - 12/8) BUY NOW & SAVE | |
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The Comeuppance
The Wilma Theater (9/19 - 12/8) | |
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Small Ball
Suzanne Roberts Theatre (6/6 - 6/29) | |
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The Christmas Candy Caper
Bird-in-Hand Stage (11/1 - 12/28) | |
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Who's Holiday!
Fulton Theatre (12/6 - 12/29) | |
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This One's for the Girls: Patsy Cline & the Women of this Country
Fulton Theatre (3/22 - 3/23) | |
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