Past Performances & Events: 22/23 Season

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Excluded/Inclusion: The Work of Chen Lok Lee
September 15, 2022 – May 31, 2023

Community Open House
September 16 – 17, 2022

Blind Boys of Alabama
September 17, 2022

Nrithya Pillai
Critical Perspectives on Bharatanatyam Dance
Guest Events
September 23, 2022

Kardemimmit
September 30, 2022

Machine de Cirque
La Galerie
October 2, 2022

Pilobolus
Big Five-OH!
October 7 – 8, 2022

Negro Ensemble Company *
Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival
October 8, 2022

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
October 12, 2022

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
October 13, 2022

Pam Tanowitz Dance
Lakecia Benjamin & Pursuance
October 14 – 15, 2022

Lakecia Benjamin & Pursuance *
Dee Dee Bridgewater & Gary Bartz
October 16, 2022

Ravi Coltrane Quintet *
The Music of John & Alice Coltrane
October 22, 2022

Brandee Younger *
October 23, 2022

The Songs of Solomon
The Music of Salamone Rossi
October 27, 2022

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
October 30, 2022

Bloomers Comedy
Temple of Bloom
Penn Student Shows
November 3 – 5, 2022

Ballet Hispánico
November 4 – 5, 2022

Full Measure
Here I Am
Penn Student Shows
November 5, 2022

Falling Out of Time *
November 6, 2022

Stimulus Children's Theatre
Matilda The Musical
Penn Student Shows
November 10 – 12, 2022

Terence Blanchard & Andrew F. Scott *
Gordon Parks: An Empathetic Lens
November 12, 2022

Penn Players
Cabaret
Penn Student Shows
November 17 – 19, 2022

Eurydice
Theatre Arts Program
Penn Student Shows
November 17 – 20, 2022

Soweto Gospel Choir
November 18, 2022

Penny Loafers
Saturday Night Loaf
Penn Student Shows
November 18 – 19, 2022

University of the Arts School of Dance
Winter Dance Series
Guest Events
December 1 – 3, 2022

Soundworks Tap Factory
The GreateSTF Show
Penn Student Shows
December 2 – 3, 2022

Dischord
Treble in Paradise
Penn Student Shows
December 3, 2022

A Toast to Dear Old Penn
December 3, 2022

Scene Not Heard: Women in Philadelphia Hip-Hop  & Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes *
December 7, 2022

Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
December 8, 2022

Rennie Harris Puremovement *
Rome & Jewels
December 9 – 10, 2022

Penn Singers Light Opera Company
Carrie: The Musical
Penn Student Shows
December 9 – 10, 2022

The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass
A Very Brassy Christmas
December 11, 2022

The Crossing @ Christmas
December 16, 2022

Classic Nutcracker
Rock Dance
Guest Events
December 16 – 18, 2022

Arno Schuitemaker *
If You Could See Me Now
January 13 – 14, 2023

An Evening of Dance Short Films
January 19, 2023

Dance Theatre of Harlem *
January 20 – 21, 2023

Teatro delle Albe *
fedeli d'Amore
January 20 – 21, 2023

MLK Jr. Lecture in Social Justice
Center for Africana Studies
Guest Events
January 25, 2023

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
January 25, 2023

Slam
January 26, 2023

Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf *
January 27, 2023

Acrobuffos
Air Play
January 29, 2023

Sō Percussion & Caroline Shaw *
February 3, 2023

VOCES8
February 9, 2023

Martha Graham Dance Company *
February 10 – 11, 2023

Negro Ensemble Company *
Mecca is Burning
February 15 – 18, 2023

Wharton Follies
21 Walnut Street
Penn Student Shows
February 23 – 24, 2023

Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y *
February 25, 2023

Tabea Debus, recorder
Adam Cockerham, archlute
March 2, 2023

Anaïs Mitchell
WXPN Welcomes
March 3, 2023

Legacy on Broad
Guest Events
March 11, 2023

Theo Bleckmann
Berlin: Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile
March 11, 2023

Terence Nance Spotlight *
March 15, 2023

Penn Players
Men on Boats
Penn Student Shows
March 16 – 18, 2023

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
March 16, 2023

PennYo A Cappella
The Greatest YOman
Penn Student Shows
March 17 – 18, 2023

Front Row Theatre Company
Arlington [a love story]
Penn Student Shows
March 23 – 25, 2023

Quaker Notes
Notes Out: Who Murdered the Beat?
Penn Student Shows
March 24 – 25, 2023

The Crossing
PRISM Quartet
March 24, 2023

Cirque: FLIP Fabrique
Muse
March 25, 2023

Wharton Dance Studio
Dance Dance Revolution
Penn Student Shows
March 29, 2023

Soundworks Tap Factory
STF On Broadway
Penn Student Shows
March 31 – April 1, 2023

TEDxPenn 2023
(r)evolution
Penn Student Shows
April 1, 2023

Sparks Dance Company
Sparks on Tour: Boy Band Edition
Penn Student Shows
April 7 – 8, 2023

The Inspiration
Daydreaming
Penn Student Shows
April 7 – 8, 2023

Penn Singers
A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder
Penn Student Shows
April 7 – 8, 2023

Bulrusher
Penn Theatre Arts Program
Penn Student Shows
April 13 – 16, 2023

Arturo O'Farrill *
The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
April 13, 2023

Stimulus Children's Theatre
Clue: The Musical
Penn Student Shows
April 13 – 15, 2023

Penny Loafers
The Great Breadish Bake Off
Penn Student Shows
April 14 – 15, 2023

Paul Leroy Robeson 125th Birthday Celebration
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Guest Events
April 15, 2023

Poetry, Prose, and Reckoning with History
Clint Smith in Conversation with Mia Bay
Guest Events
April 17, 2023

Athena
Penn Theatre Arts Program
Penn Student Shows
April 21 – 22, 2023

Paul Taylor Dance Company *
April 21 – 22, 2023

UArts School of Dance
Spring Dance Series
Guest Events
April 27 – 29, 2023

Nrityagram: For the Love of Dance
May 3, 2023

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble & Chitrasena Dance Company *
Āhuti
May 5 – 6, 2023

George Hinchliffe's Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
May 7, 2023

Julianna Barwick
May 19, 2023

BKBXKids!
Destination: Everywhere
May 20 – 22, 2023

123 Andrés
May 21, 2023

CATAPULT
Magic Shadows
May 21, 2023

Give & Take Jugglers
May 21, 2023

Indigenous Enterprise
May 22, 2023

Literature to Life
The Giver
May 23, 2023

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia
It’s Okay to Be Different – Stories by Todd Parr
May 23, 2023

Craig Taborn
June 2, 2023

SW!NG OUT *
June 9 – 10, 2023

Lindy Hop Dance Workshop
June 10, 2023

Student Performing Arts Night (SPAN)
Penn Student Shows
August 31, 2023

* This performance featured an INSIGHTS event.

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