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Arts & Entertainment

Martha Graham Cracker
Billy Penn

Why this Philly drag troupe is famous in NYC, Vegas and around the world

15 things you might not know about the iconic Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret.

6 years ago

Children playing in the water play area at Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum
Kids
Philadelphia

Please Touch Museum cuts staff, plans to stay closed until 2021

The Philadelphia children’s museum in Fairmount Park believes the public is not yet ready to come back.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Art Museum
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Employees at Philadelphia Museum of Art vote to unionize

Union organizers said the driving issue was wanting to be involved in decisions like hiring, benefits, diversity and safety as the museum plans to reopen.

6 years ago

The Surflight Theatre's destroyed tent on Tuesday, August 4
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Isaias destroys outdoor venue at Long Beach Island’s Surflight Theatre

Fierce winds from Tropical Storm Isaias destroyed the outdoor venue at Long Beach Island's Surflight Theatre.

6 years ago

People and cars gathered at a parking lot turned into a drive-in during the coronavirus pandemic
The Why
Movies
Outdoors

Drive-ins are making a comeback

Drive-ins are making a comeback as the COVID-19 era's socially distant entertainment venue. It turns out their origin story has a big chapter here in 1930s Camden, N.J.

Air Date: August 3, 2020

Listen 18:19
ArtsQuest President and CEO Kassie Hilgert stands on the SteelStacks campus, which sits at the base of the former blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Music
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Musikfest returns to Bethlehem as a 10-day hybrid of live and streaming concerts

As one of the largest free music festivals in the country, Musikfest attempts to recreate the street fair feel at home.

6 years ago

Listen 1:46
Opera Philadelphia
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

As fall theater season collapses, Opera Philadelphia pivots to film

Instead of producing opera for the stage, the company will turn operas into original films and release them on the company’s own online video channel. 

6 years ago

Listen 1:29
Concertgoers at People's Light
Community Events
Pennsylvania
Performing Arts

‘It’s the new normal’: Drive-in concertgoers embrace a new summer venue

Drive-ins are the socially distant live music venues of the summer of 2020. “I don’t ever want it to stop,” said one concertgoer at People’s Light in Malvern.

6 years ago

Listen 1:50
Members of the Live Events Coalition push roadie cases around City Hall to draw attention to their plight. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Public Health

Out of work for months, Philly event staff rally for more federal aid

“The live event industry was hit first, it was hit hardest, and will be the last to return,” said the head of the stagehands’ union.

6 years ago

Workers set up for Parking Lot Social, a series of drive-in shows taking place at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community Events
Music
Public Health

Drive-in concerts arrive in Philadelphia

Parking lots in the region are gearing up to host in-person, on-stage performances.

6 years ago

Listen 1:50
The Annenberg Space for Photography closed permanently in June. In a survey of museum directors, 33% said there was either a
NPR
Business
Public Health
Visual Arts

One-third of U.S. museums may not survive the year, survey finds

In a survey released Wednesday of 760 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently by next fall.

6 years ago

Danielle Leneé and Brett Ashley Robinson in IS GOD IS
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Public Health

With the stage off limits, Wilma Theater tries something new: a radio play

The Wilma Theater will present its final production the 2019-20 season, the Afrofuturist work “Is God Is,” as a radio play — something it’s never done before.

6 years ago

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Delaware
History
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Delaware Art Museum revives ‘Black Survival Guide’ exhibit

Originally commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Guard occupation of Wilmington, the exhibit has new relevance in 2020.

6 years ago

What Is the Grass Walt Whitman in My Life by Mark Doty
Radio Times
Books
LGBTQ
Poetry

Mark Doty and Walt Whitman

In his new book, poet Mark Doty traces the life and work of Walt Whitman and, in the process, examines his own experience as a writer.

Air Date: July 21, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
PlayPenn artistic director Paul Meshejian
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Founding director of Philly theater group resigns after racism, harassment allegations

Facing allegations of racism and sexual harassment within his organization, PlayPenn’s founding director Paul Meshejian has resigned.

6 years ago

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