You can't watch it on TV
You can't surf it on the web
You can't read it in a book
YOU'VE GOT TO BE THERE!
Enter The Wilma Theater and you'll walk into a unique theater experience. The Wilma is entertainment and more - a rich, gripping journey that you'll be talking about, and thinking about, long after you leave. For twenty years, Blanka and Jiri Zizka have brought the cutting edge of world theater to Philadelphia's door. This season, you can sail the River Styx with a great poet or swash and buckle with three legendary rogues. And you'll enjoy all this from a divinely comfortable seat in one of the most beautiful new theaters in America. Surrounded by the glittering restaurants and culture palaces of the Avenue of the Arts.
Directions:
DIRECTIONS VIA PUBLIC TRANSIT
The Wilma is easily accessible by public transportation:
Market-Frankford Line: stops at 15th & Market, across from City Hall.
Subway-Surface Lines: stop at 15th & Market, across from City Hall.
Broad Street Subway Line: stops at Walnut and Locust Streets.
Buses: Route C via Broad Street; Route 41 & 21 Buses via Walnut Street; Route 90 via Locust and Pine Streets.
Regional Rail Lines: R1, R2, R3, R5, R6 and R8 all stop at Penn Center/Suburban Station, just above City Hall at 16th & JFK Boulevard.
PATCO: stops at 13th & Locust and 16th & Locust.
The Phlash Downtown Loop: stops at Broad & Walnut Streets.
DIRECTIONS BY CAR
The Wilma is conveniently located in downtown Philadelphia, easily accessible via all Philadelphia-area major highway routes:
From the Northeast: Take 95 South to 676 West. Take first exit to Broad Street (ramp up to right). This will put you on 15th Street, headed south. Go approximately eight blocks to Locust, make a left. Go one block to Broad Street and make a right. The Wilma is one block down on the left.
From the Southeast & Philadelphia International Airport: Take 95 North to 676 West (ramp up to left). Take first exit to Broad Street (ramp up to right). This will put you on 15th Street, headed south. Go approximately eight blocks to Locust, make a left. Go one block to Broad Street and make a right. The Wilma is one block down on the left.
From Ben Franklin Bridge: Stay in center lane after bridge, take 676 West. Take first exit to Broad Street (ramp up to right). This will put you on 15th Street, headed south. Go approximately eight blocks to Locust, make a left. Go one block to Broad Street and make a right. The Wilma is one block down on the left.
From Walt Whitman Bridge & Betsy Ross Bridge: Exit bridge to 95 South. Follow 95 South to 676 West. Take first exit to Broad Street (ramp up to right). This will put you on 15th Street, headed south. Go approximately eight blocks to Locust, make a left. Go one block to Broad Street and make a right. The Wilma is one block down on the left.
From New York and Points North: Take New Jersey Turnpike South to Exit 6 (Pennsylvania Turnpike). As soon as you cross the Delaware River, take 95 South. Follow 95 South to 676 West. Take first exit to Broad Street (ramp up to right). This will put you on 15th Street, headed south. Go approximately eight blocks to Locust, make a left. Go one block to Broad Street and make a right. The Wilma is one block down on the left.
