Arts & Entertainment
Philly designer’s coat makes a statement on Grammy Awards red carpet
Tierra Whack wore a rainbow-colored, faux-fur to the Grammy Awards’ red carpet last weekend. The outfit went viral, catapulting a Philadelphia designer into the limelight.
7 years ago
Listen 6:14South Philly’s Theatre Exile finds bargain-basement home right where it started
The South Philadelphia theater company lost its home of 10 years. Now, it’s moving back to a bigger, better — albeit underground — stage.
7 years ago
Listen 3:18LOVE Park keepsakes for sale, now in heart shapes and controversy free
Your chance to get a piece of Philadelphia’s LOVE Park continues, as a second round of granite bricks have again been turned into paperweights — in time for Valentine's Day.
7 years ago
An anti-advertising campaign of artwork takes over Philadelphia subway station
Thirty Philadelphia artists submitted work that has replaced all advertising in the Walnut-Locust Station.
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Listen 1:53‘Box Clever’ and boxed in at life, from Inis Nua Theatre Company
A desperate single mother bares her soul, but not effectively until the play's very end.
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Lady Alma put music aside until viral South African video of her song revived it
A stranger lip-syncing to one of her songs in South Africa has propelled a Philadelphia singer to resume her career.
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Listen 4:55Life, then death. Then life again. 50 years of pictures by David Lebe
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has the first major retrospective of David Lebe’s experimental photography, tracing his life as a gay man for a half-century.
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Listen 2:16A ‘Dream Girl,’ overwhelmed by her space with Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
Her mind takes off into daydreams, but the play is earth-bound by echoing sound where it's performed.
7 years ago
Rodin’s radical public monuments on display in Philadelphia
The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia keeps alive a discussion about public monuments started in 2017 by the Monument Lab.
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Opera Philadelphia to open next season with a Russian tragedy
Opera Philadelphia has commissioned “Denis and Katya,” an opera based on the 2016 shooting deaths of two Russian teens in a self-inflicted explosion of violence.
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‘Hype Man’ and the kitchen sink at InterAct Theatre Company
Hip-hop performers argue over the purpose of a public forum.
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Documentary tracks ‘secret history’ of black representation in horror movies
A Philadelphia production team released an online documentary on Shudder, tracking a century of black representation in the bloodiest of genres.
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Meet the host of WHYY’s new ‘Movers & Makers’ program
"Movers & Makers" intends to pull back the curtain, showing the region, people and places that you might not know about. It premieres Thursday night at 9 on WHYY-TV.
7 years ago
Listen 5:53Jumping on the bland wagon at Institute of Contemporary Art
“Mundane Futures” assembles African-American art and artifacts as it imagines a radically banal tomorrow. The exhibit continues through March 31 at Penn.
7 years ago
Chekhov comes in threes as Philly-area theaters present ‘Three Sisters’ three times
It’s an accidental triple-threat as three regional theater companies simultaneously produce variations of Chekhov’s classic ‘Three Sisters.’
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