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Young students work on a dance number during Hamilton Camp at Music Theatre Philly.
Dance
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Performing Arts

Kids go ham for ‘Hamilton’ at Music Theatre Philly camp

A 'Hamilton' musical theater summer camp puts kids in the room where it happens.

7 years ago

Wes Matthews, 17, a rising senior at Science Leadership Academy, is Philadelphia's new Youth Poet Laureate.
Philadelphia
Poetry

Philadelphia names youth poet laureate

Wes Matthews, 17, has been named Philadelphia's youth poet laureate. He moved here from Detroit just a year ago.

7 years ago

Current members of the Dixie Hummingbirds and Ira Tucker Jr. (right), announce celebrations to mark the group's 90th anniversary. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Dixie Hummingbirds celebrate 90th anniversary with yearlong flight

In 2000, the Philadelphia-based gospel group was deemed a "national treasure" by the National Endowment for the Arts.

7 years ago

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Playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, photographed here in September 1980, wrote over 50 works for theater and screen. (AP)
NPR
Performing Arts

Neil Simon, preeminent and prolific playwright and screenwriter, has died at 91

Neil Simon, the enormously productive comic playwright who often adapted his work into screenplays, died on early Sunday morning.

7 years ago

Jamie Bernstein watches her father, Leonard Bernstein, conduct the New York Philharmonic at a rehearsal for one of his Young People's Concerts, circa fall 1962. (Bob Serating /New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives)
NPR
Music
Performing Arts

Life with Leonard Bernstein

7 years ago

Addiction
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New documentary series shows the struggles, triumphs of ‘Getting off the Streets’ in Camden

“Getting Off the Streets,” a new documentary that shines a spotlight on a “zero tolerance” rehabilitation program for homeless men in Camden, New Jersey.

7 years ago

Artist Brendan Lowry stands beside his contribution to the Trashcan Takeover project at 17th and Locust streets.
Media
Public Spaces
Visual Arts

Trashcan Takeover replaces ads with art on Philly cans

The Trashcan Takeover campaign to put art on public trash cans hits back at tasteless advertising.

7 years ago

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The 93-year-old Cherry Street Pier is being transformed into a public space with artists' studios.
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Economic Development
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Artists taking up residence as Cherry Street pier readies for October opening

The Cherry Street Pier on the Delaware River waterfront is expected to open Oct. 12 with an open-air park, marketplace, food service and bar, and an artists colony.

7 years ago

In this Jan. 19, 1993 file photo, singer Aretha Franklin performs at the inaugural gala for President Bill Clinton in Washington. Franklin died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, at her home in Detroit. AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
Music

Thanks to cultural appropriation, Aretha Franklin transcended categories dividing us

Her entire career was a testimony to the wondrous mixtape of America itself. She stands as a rebuke to cultural police who try to prevent that type of border-crossing.

7 years ago

Queen Latifah, pictured here at the 2018 Fashion Week amfAR Gala New York at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, in New York, will be honored with this year's Marian Anderson Award in Philadelphia (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia

Queen Latifah to receive Marian Anderson Award

The 20th annual Marian Anderson Award – for artistry and altruism – will go to Queen Latifah.

7 years ago

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Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson has written a book about his philosophy of life and football. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia
Sports

New book reveals Philadelphia Eagles coach’s personal playbook

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson.

7 years ago

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Arden Theatre Company's production of the musical
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

People’s Light leads in Barrymore Award nominations; Arden’s ‘Fun Home’ gets most nominations of any show

Nominations were announced Monday for the awards for excellence in Philadelphia-area professional theater.

7 years ago

Toronto-based singer Melanie Brulée performs for the crowd gathered at the Tank Stage. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Faithful fans of the Philadelphia Folk Festival endure showers to see new acts, veteran performers

Faithful fans of world, blues, and folk music endured a weekend of intermittent showers to see a broad roster of performances at the 57th Philadelphia Folk Festival.

7 years ago

Aretha Franklin was in her element with comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd on the set of The Blues Brothers. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
NPR
Music

Aretha Franklin knew how to make us laugh, too

She could also be a bit of a hoot.

7 years ago

Kurt Vile (Jo McCaughey / couresty of Kurt Vile)
NPR
Music
Philadelphia

Kurt Vile parks for free in ‘Loading Zones’

In the video, Vile crisscrosses Philadelphia in a Chrysler convertible, running errands and avoiding the parking police

7 years ago

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