There may be no better way to beat the winter blues than to catch a live performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Art After 5, where the blues is jazz and the scope is international. The winter 2008 program schedule includes acclaimed favorite performers as well as innovative emerging artists.

Philadelphia Theatre Company rings in the new year with the Philadelphia premiere of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, January 18-February 24, at Philadelphia Theatre Company's new home, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets).

The Philadelphia Orchestra kicks off a Bernstein Festival in January 2008 in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest musicians, the iconic composer, conductor, and educator Leonard Bernstein.

CIGNA presents The Philadelphia Orchestra’s free Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute Concert on Monday, January 21, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. The concert will be held at Philadelphia’s Martin Luther King High School for the third year in a row. Guest conductor Thomas Wilkins will lead the Orchestra, as well as the Philadelphia All City Choir (Dorina Morrow, director). Specially selected students from local high schools will share their personal reflections on the life and work of Dr. King.

Arden Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Wittenberg from January 17 through March 16. Wittenberg, the third mainstage production of the Arden's 20th Anniversary Season, is proudly sponsored by Fox Chase Bank. The entire 2007/08 season is sponsored by PNC Bank.

For Hindus in India and across the world, Krishna is understood to be both God and man. He is an incarnation of the god Vishnu and the supreme deity as well as a beloved baby, a flirtatious youth and a kingly counselor. For many centuries, Krishna’s divinity has been woven together with his human story in exquisite poems and images.

In 2006, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired Office Love, a tapestry by William Kentridge, whose work encompassing drawing, video, sculpture and theater, has made him one of the strongest artistic voices to emerge in post-apartheid South Africa.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first-ever exhibition devoted to Nepalese Art of the Malla period (1200-1769) — an artistic “Golden Age.” Marvels of the Malla Period: A Nepalese Renaissance 1200-1603, on view through June 2, 2008, explores a time of remarkable creativity, when the fame of Nepal’s artists spread to Tibet, Bhutan, India, and even the Chinese court of Kublai Khan.

In Spring 2008 the Philadelphia Museum of Art will open a landmark exhibition featuring the rare surviving works of art from the first commercially produced porcelain made in America. Between 1770 and 1772, the city of Philadelphia was home to an ambitious and complex commercial and artistic undertaking that mirrored attitudes of American independence that were flowering throughout the city and the colonies at the time.

Lee Miller (1907-1977) was one of the most original and ambitious photographers of the 20th century. She performed with unique success on both sides of the camera, starting her career as a fashion model in New York, working as a studio assistant to Man Ray in Paris, independently creating haunting, surrealist-inspired images as well as portraiture, and serving as a war correspondent during World War II.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will be the only East Coast venue for the first major exhibition in 15 years to be devoted to Frida Kahlo in the United States. Frida Kahlo (February 20-May 18, 2008) examines the art of one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years.

The kimono, the national dress of Japan, is celebrated worldwide for its elegant, distinctive silhouette. Though quintessentially Japanese, the kimono form has influenced fashion designers in every corner of the globe.