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Johnnie Hobbs and Patricia Scott Hobbs talk about their experiences at the North Philadelphia institution which both served and shaped the city's African American community.
"Cato: A Tragedy" was a famous 18th Century play - supposedly the favorite play of George Washington himself! What connection did it have to the history of America - and to the theater history of Philadelphia?
The story of three small ambitious cutting-edge Philadelphia theater companies of the 1970s. Why did some survive - and some falter?
The sudden success of the Drama Guild - a former amateur theater group transformed into a professional local powerhouse - finally fulfills the promise of giving Philadelphia a flagship nonprofit theater company.
Three new Philadelphia theater complexes are built for the mid-century modern era - funded by wealthy philanthropists.
A re-edited, reduced and remixed account of the entire history of the Theatre of the Living Arts – the first major professional theater company in Philadelphia's modern era.