Penn Live Arts Blog / By / SanyaGrace Kunicki

Fall 2025 Highlights

Accelerator Program America Unfinished Dance Jazz ListenHear Music Penn Live Arts Commission Philadelphia Premieres Theatre World Premieres

Thank you for joining us for a wonderful start to our 25/26 season: America Unfinished. As we head into the new year, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on some of the highlights from the past few months. Between outstanding artists making their Philadelphia debut, new works taking the stage, impactful engagement with audiences and construction progress on our new venues, it’s already been such a rewarding season. Read more...

Program Spotlight: Student Discovery

Children's Festival

When Micah Sell was eight years old, he attended a RUBBERBAND performance through our Student Discovery program and, a few hours later, enthusiastically informed his mother that he wanted to join the company someday.

“I think the physicality of the RUBBERBAND show is what attracted me to it all those years ago,” Sell reflected recently. “I remember being fascinated by their non-balletic vocabulary; it made me realize that there don't have to be rules to dance. At its core, it is just about the movement.” Read more...