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Susan Watts, a fourth generation Klezmer musician will perform alongside an orchestra of exclusively women on Sunday at the Annenberg Center during a performance called
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Celebrating women in Klezmer music

The Philadelphia Folklore Project is celebrating that lineage with a performance on Sunday, Oct 28, at the Annenberg Center called Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer.

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Delaware Shakespeare’s community tour explores nature of prejudice

Is “Merchant” an anti-Semitic play or a play about anti-Semitism?

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After independent analysis, the museum said on Monday that five of its famed Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake. They will be pulled from their exhibit, and other fragments will undergo further study. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
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Museum of the Bible says 5 of the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are fake

The museum will replace the five fragments in the display with three other fragments that will receive further study.

7 years ago

Jared Reed as Jason and Jennifer Summerfield as Medea in Hedgerow Theatre's production of
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‘Medea’ continues its lo-o-o-ong run, this time at Hedgerow Theatre

An ancient story by Euripides that never gets old.

7 years ago

Edmond de Belamy, created using artificial intelligence, will be auctioned at Christie's on Thursday. (Christie's Images)
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A.I. produced ‘portrait’ will go up for auction at Christie’s

A new portrait that is vaguely reminiscent of something painted by an old master is headed to Christie's New York auction block later this week

7 years ago

Yolonda Johnson-Young earned a scholarship from the Scribe Video Center, the same place that her late son also took classes. (Photo courtesy of Kriston Bethel)

Finding Elijah – A mother’s journey

One brisk November afternoon in Penn Treaty Park, I had the opportunity of a lifetime.  I assisted my then 19-year-old son, Elijah, wit ...

7 years ago

Wizards for a day (from left) Charlene Delos Santos, Harley Birkmire, and Joe Birkmire, show off their attire on Germantown Avenue at the Chestnut Hill Witches and Wizards Festival. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
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Harry who? Chestnut Hill Witches and Wizards fest carries on without its famous namesake

Chestnut Hill's popular fall festival celebrating the world of Harry Potter lost its name, but not its following.

7 years ago

Eric Jaffe (left) and Sav Souza in
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Not your everyday ‘Basic Witches’

A witch contest in drag, to find this year's witchiest.

7 years ago

A passer-by looks at
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Mural by major Pakistani artist installed at Philly community college

Newly commissioned work by Shahzia Sikander installed in the Community College of Philadelphia.

7 years ago

In the Philadelphia Theatre Company production of
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Performing Arts

‘Sweat’ breaks open a new era for Philadelphia Theatre Company

Lynn Nottage's play about factory decline and its effect on disrespected workers puts the stage company back into production.

7 years ago

Walt Maguire adjusts his glasses in his bathroom mirror on October 20, 2017. Maguire, 60, played the part of Dumbledore at Chestnut Hill’s Harry Potter Festival for six years. Now, he is co-hosting the Witches and Wizards festival costume contest. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
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A wizard who must not be named reflects on his years as Hogwarts headmaster

For Walt Maguire, dressing as the festival’s Dumbledore was a serious endeavor — one that required him to begin his preparation at 5 a.m.

7 years ago

Jane Irish (left) and Mary Henderson of Tiger Strikes Asteroid galleries hang their first show at the Crane Arts Building. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Visual Arts

Philly artists join others in archiving their creative process

Artists contribute to New York library's public archive of 'process work,' the throw-away sketches made in pursuit of the final work.

7 years ago

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Visual Arts

Nearly forgotten French impressionist regains her moment in Philadelphia exhibit

Berthe Morisot - a founding artist of French impressionism who was nearly forgotten - is coming back at the Barnes Foundation.

7 years ago

Large scale abstract painter Larry Poons is featured in Nathaniel Kahn's film,
Movies

Art market skewered in new documentary from Philly filmmaker

Philadelphia filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn skewers the art market with his new documentary, "The Price of Everything."

7 years ago

Members of Piffaro and the Prism Saxaphone Quartet rehearse David Ludwig's
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Philadelphia

Musical ‘bookends’ Prism Quartet and Piffaro offer world premiere performance

The Renaissance wind ensemble Piffaro and Prism Saxophone Quartet join forces Wednesday to premiere “The Anchoress” by David Ludwig.

7 years ago

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