Performing Arts

Three lines of students on stage dressed in blue blazers, khaki pants, and red-and-blue-striped ties singing with their arms over their heads.

Penn Glee Club takes the stage in a five-city tour of Asia

From China to Japan, the Penn Glee Club took the stage in five Asian cities during its annual summer tour.

Louisa Shepard ・ June 18, 2019

The Sachs Program announces 2019 grants, marks one-year anniversary

A year and 23 grant projects later, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation is phasing into round two of its annual grant awards throughout eight categories that support the teaching, making, and presenting art.

Brandon Baker ・ May 3, 2019

What’s ahead in the 2019-20 Annenberg season

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will welcome Philip Glass for #GLASSFEST, a U.S. dance premiere from MOMIX, and several Grammy Award-winning musicians.

Brandon Baker ・ April 30, 2019

Tapestry held by two people blows in the air

Five events to watch for in May

Happening around campus this May: the second-annual Sachs Grant Awards, the Philadelphia Children’s Festival, and the screening of a 1930s Hollywood B-movie.

Brandon Baker ・ April 30, 2019

Carolyn Lazard at the Institute of Contemporary Art

Meet the student selected for the Whitney Biennial

For the 2019 Whitney Biennial, featuring young artists from across the country, MFA student Carolyn Lazard will contribute a work that asks patrons to consider the relationship between environment and the chronically ill.

Brandon Baker ・ April 29, 2019

Peter Whinnery posing on a ladder in his workshop

Peter Whinnery is packing up shop

It’s curtain call for technical adviser for Student Performing Arts Peter Whinnery, the set-building guru behind hundreds of student productions.

Penn Today Staff ・ March 6, 2019

Five events to watch for in March

Happening around campus this March: the world premiere of ‘Vessels’ at the Annenberg Center, a lecture on trees from China, and a visit to Kelly Writers House from reporter Emily Jane Fox.

Brandon Baker ・ March 1, 2019

Dance Theatre of Harlem comes to campus

The ballet company is the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ second artist-in-residence.

Lauren Hertzler ・ February 28, 2019

Two lion costumes that each have two students inside during performance.

Celebrating Chinese culture

The Penn Lions student dance troupe aims to spread good luck and good fortune around the Lunar New Year.

Louisa Shepard ・ February 7, 2019

Yellow and red ornate dragon mask used in lion dance

Five events to watch for in February

Happening around campus and beyond this February: the annual Lunar New Year celebration at International House, a thought-provoking new speaker series on the future of religion, and an innovative story slam by nurses.

Brandon Baker ・ February 6, 2019

In the News

Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn Choral Director William Parberry Retires After 45 Years

After more than four decades in Penn’s Music Department, University Choir director William Parberry has retired. Parberry marked the occasion on Sunday with a final concert, featuring Handel’s “Messiah.”

FULL STORY →

Philadelphia Inquirer

Trigger Warning: John Waters to Get ‘Filthy’ on Penn Campus

Iconoclast John Waters will be commemorating the creation of the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation at the Annenberg Center’s Zellerbach Theater tonight with a one-man show.