The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents 60+ chamber music concerts by exceptional international and Philadelphia-based artists at the Kimmel Center and other center-city venues. We keep our prices low ($10-24), promote new music and music education, collaborate with regional cultural and educational institutions, and provide high quality customer service to our audiences.
The PCMS Unlimited Student Pass gives unlimited access to all PCMS concerts during the current season for a one-time flat fee of $30.
Reserve a ticket (yes, a real, actual ticket) in advance through our online reservation system. Whether you reserve months in advance or the day of the concert, if there’s a seat still available, it’s all yours. Pick up your ticket at our will-call desk before the concert. One ticket per cardholder.
If you have any questions, simply call our box office ( 215-569-8080) or e-mail Brian Potter, Box Office and Marketing Coordinator, at bpotter@pcmsconcerts.org.
Founded in 1992, Astral Artists is a non-profit organization that plays a vital role in the discovery and development of the nation’s most gifted classical musicians. Selected from a nationwide pool of applicants at competitive annual auditions, Astral artists are provided with invaluable career development guidance; debuts in Philadelphia and New York City; numerous performance opportunities via Astral’s critically acclaimed concert series; collaborations with world-renowned musicians; auditions for major presenters, managers, and conductors; and world premières of compositions written for them and commissioned by Astral.
Mauckingbird Theatre Company is committed to producing professional gay-themed theatre, while also exploring classic literature and musical genres and providing affordable productions of infrequently produced works.
Renowned for its distinctive sound, desired for its keen ability to capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences, and admired for an unrivaled legacy of “firsts” in music-making, The Philadelphia Orchestra remains one of the preeminent orchestras in the world.
Penn Museum is one of the premier international museums of archaeology and anthropology–on the University of Pennsylvania campus. An active research and teaching center, the Penn Museum has teams engaged in over 50 expeditions and research projects worldwide. Three floors of public galleries feature art, artifacts, and remarkable stories from every inhabited continent on earth.
We produce a wide range of stories in a variety of styles: classic and contemporary, intimate and epic, fiction and nonfiction, musical and dramatic. Producing the great playwrights allows us to measure ourselves against the masters of our craft, while sharing the voices of new writers gives us the opportunity to shape the future of American theatre. We embrace stories for audiences of all ages and bring the same artistic quality to all our work.
fidget is a platform for the collaborative work of dancer/choreographer Megan Bridge and composer/video artist Peter Price. In June 2009, Megan Bridge and Peter Price opened thefidget space, a warehouse, research laboratory, and hub for new forms of art, media, and performance in Kensington, Philadelphia. Fostering a pocket of rich artistic experimentation, artists and scholars with big ideas are regularly invited to inhabit the space, participating in a lively and engaged community of interdisciplinary art making and discourse. 
Shofuso Japanese House and Garden is a traditional-style Japanese house and nationally-ranked garden in Philadelphia’s West Fairmount Park that reflects the history of Japanese culture in Philadelphia, from the 1876 Centennial Exposition to the installation of its contemporary paintings in 2007.
The Rosenbach Museum & Library was founded in 1954 through a testamentary gift by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952) and his brother, Philip (1863-1953). Renowned dealers in books, manuscripts, and fine art, the brothers played a central role in the development of private libraries that later became our nation’s most important public collections of rare books, such as the Folger and Huntington Libraries. The brothers’ own personal collection, now the core of the Rosenbach, features treasures the brothers were unable to part with, including the only surviving copy of Benjamin Franklin’s first Poor Richard Almanac and the manuscript of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The collection has since grown to include the papers of poet Marianne Moore, Bram Stoker’s notes for Dracula, and the drawings of Maurice Sendak, adding richness and relevance to the experience of visiting the Rosenbach.
The Painted Bride Art Center is a multidisciplinary arts venue showcasing visual arts, theater, jazz, world music, and theater.
International House Philadelphia is a multicultural residential center, a source of distinctive programming, and the embodiment of an ideal. Founded over 100 years ago in 1910, International House Philadelphia is an independent, non-profit organization housing more than 400 students, scholars and interns from as many as 95 countries around the world. In addition, IHP offers a wide-variety of public programming such as film-screenings, art exhibits, lectures and cultural events.
The Wilma Theater creates living, adventurous art. We engage artists and audiences in imaginative reflection on the complexities of contemporary life. We present bold, original, well-crafted productions that represent a range of voices, viewpoints, and styles.
The Academy of Vocal Arts is the world’s only tuition-free program exclusively dedicated to training opera singers. Our intimate European-style theater is tucked inside a charming historic brownstone on Spruce Street, one block south of Rittenhouse Square. Approximately 25 resident artists between the ages of 20 and 30 come from all over the world to train and perform.
The Museum at CHF tells chemistry’s untold stories, from alchemy to nanotechnology. Trace scientific progress in the laboratory, the factory, and the home and learn how chemistry continues to shape the modern world. Discover the chemistry in your life! July 2 to December 7: The Alchemical Quest. Alchemy was not just the quest for the philosopher’s stone. Explore the early roots of chemistry and the beginning of scientific practices.
EgoPo is committed to re-imagining the great classics of theater and literature through bold and visionary stagings that fully envelop audiences in new, fantastical worlds. We cultivate audience’s appetite for, and appreciation of, profound, dramatic masterpieces by turning a night at the theater into a provocative, innovative and inspiring event.EgoPo produces yearlong Festivals that are centered around a theme. For our 2012-13 season EgoPo is proud to be returning to American Theater with their Festival of American Vaudeville. This Festival will include: an all-female production of The Assassination of Jesse James; a world premiere production of The Life and Death of Harry Houdini; and a bold deconstruction of Uncle Tom’s Cabin: An Unfortunate Melodrama. We hope you’ll join us for a wonderful season!
ComedySportz is Philadelphia’s longest-running comedy show! Every Saturday night two teams of improvisers compete for points and your laughs in a hilarious competition similar to TV’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” A referee governs the action and calls the fouls keeping the match fast, smart and funny. For times and tix: comedysportzphilly.com.
Translated from the Irish language, Inis Nua means “New Island.” Our mission is to produce contemporary, provocative plays from Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales which reflect those cultures’ new identities in today’s world. Inis Nua also seeks to cultivate and produce contemporary, provocative work from American playwrights who deal with the Irish-American, Welsh-American, Scottish-American and Anglo-American experience.
Stenton is one of the earliest, best-preserved and most believable historic houses in Philadelphia. Its distinguished Georgian architecture, its outstanding collection, and its superb documentation combine to create one of the most authentic house museums in the region.
Founded by acclaimed dancer-choreographer (and Temple Dance Professor), Kun-Yang Lin, and featuring a number of Temple University dance graduates among its performers, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) has been “at the pinnacle of Philadelphia’s outstanding dance community” (The Inquirer) since relocating here from NYC in 2008, selling out every one of its home season performances. KYL/D’s singular artistry, a celebration of dance as the ultimate integration of body, mind and spirit, roils with contemporary energy and has been described as “deeply spiritual, remarkable” (Dance Magazine). KYL/D proudly represents Philadelphia on tours nationally and overseas, including recently in Indonesia, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore. KYL/D’s Mandala Project, hailed as “a masterwork of art, spirituality and stagecraft.” (The Inquirer), will be performed at this show along with a new (world premiere) piece inspired by Chinese Chess. RESERVE EARLY. THIS SHOW WILL SELL OUT.
Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world’s first true “penitentiary,” a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of convicts. 
Founded in 1855, the Wagner Free Institute of Science is a museum and educational institution that is nearly unchanged from the nineteenth century. The museum building, a National Historic Landmark completed in 1865, houses a natural history collection begun by William Wagner in the early nineteenth century and expanded by the pre-eminent scientist Joseph Leidy in the 1880s. The collection includes over 100,000 specimens, including skeletons, fossils, shells, minerals and mounted animals. The Museum is open to the public Tuesday-Friday, 9 AM to 4 PM, year-round. Evening and weekend programs are offered in the fall and spring.
Lantern Theater Company is committed to an authentic and intimate exploration of the human spirit in our choice of classics, modern, and original works. We create intimate theater that is smart, fun, engaging, and connected to our modern world.
First Person Arts is a Philadelphia nonprofit arts organization dedicated to transforming the drama of real life into memoir and documentary art. We believe that everyone has a story to tell and that storytelling connects us with each other and the world. One of First Person Arts’ most popular programs is the twice-monthly StorySlam. Winner of “Best in Philly,” StorySlams are monthly storytelling competitions. Each Slam’s theme elicits stories that come from the life experiences of Philly’s storytellers, who volunteer to tell a story at the start of each Slam.
Pasion y Arte is an all-female flamenco dance company that treasures the traditions of classical flamenco while also seeking to expand the art form in new and modern ways. Pasion y Arte and its Artistic Director Elba Hevia y Vaca present new and commissioned works that draw upon mastery and respect for flamenco dance, cante and toque while experimentally incorporating elements of other dance forms, music genres, multimedia and narrative storytelling. In this manner, Pasion y Arte investigates the trajectory of modernization and change in 21st century flamenco, with a special emphasis on the empowerment of women.
