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Arts & Entertainment

The band Heart performs live on stage, with Nancy Heart playing an electric guitar
Music
Performing Arts

Rock band Heart offering reward for instruments stolen from New Jersey venue

The band was set to kick off their tour at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City on Saturday, and its gear had been set up there the day prior to the show.

10 months ago

Playwright Antu Yacob and cast member Evander Duck Jr. at the InterAct Theatre media event for their play On My Deen
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Billy Penn

InterAct Theatre debuts play on underrepresented Muslim community in Philly

“On My Deen,” which opens this weekend, is the first of three plays in InterAct’s three-year Philly Cycle.

10 months ago

Saquon Barkley's backwards hurdle
Philadelphia
Sports
TV

Eagles’ Saquon Barkley announced as Madden NFL 26 cover athlete

Barkley's notable backward hurdle over a defender last season is depicted on the video game's standard cover. He is the first Eagles player on the cover since Donovan McNabb.

10 months ago

Former Allen AME Church stands now as East Lynne Theater Company
Pennsylvania
Performing Arts
Preservation

Cape May’s historic Allen AME Church is now a theater space

The church associated with the Underground Railroad was sold to Cape May after it burned in 2018. It’s now the home of East Lynne Theater Company.

10 months ago

Students with Acting Without Boundaries on stage
K-12
Pennsylvania
Performing Arts

At a Bryn Mawr theater program, actors with disabilities tell their stories ‘without boundaries’

Parents of participants say afterschool program has helped their children connect to others like them and feel empowered in a creative atmosphere.

10 months ago

a scene from the Giovanni's Room play being practiced
Books
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

The first officially sanctioned stage version of James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni’s Room’ debuts in Germantown

Philadelphia’s Quintessence Theatre has produced the only adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1956 novel approved by his estate.

10 months ago

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Eiko Otake scatters dirt over an image of her mother at Laurel Hill Cemetery for the Death and Arts Festival
Aging
Community Events
Philadelphia

Laurel Hill Cemetery’s weekend festival of mourning gives another face to death

The inaugural Death and Arts Festival, taking place at Philadelphia's Laurel Hill East and West cemeteries, brings together five artists who explore aging, dying and grieving.

10 months ago

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Ferg performs
Community Events
Delaware
New Jersey
Philadelphia

Roots Picnic, Pride Weekend and West Philly Porchfest in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

May 29 - June 1: “Hairspray” in Del., Roots Picnic in Philly, and Waltfest in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

10 months ago

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inside the arcade
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Start your (virtual) engines … F1 Arcade opening Center City location this week

Eighty racing simulators allow casual fans and motorsports heads to try their hand at Formula 1 racing.

10 months ago

Animism sculpture
Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Owning the means of production: New Jersey’s Grounds for Sculpture merges with the fabrication company next door

Seward Johnson established his atelier in 1974 to give artists greater involvement in the technical production of their work.

10 months ago

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David Cross - Worst Daddy in the World (Photo Credit: Timothy M. Schmidt)
Studio 2
Comedy
Media
TV

David Cross on comedy and finding optimism in an ‘awful world’

Actor, producer and comedian David Cross will be at the Ardmore Music Hall on May 28 as part of his “The End of The Beginning of The End” tour.

Air Date: May 27, 2025 10:00 am

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DJ Diamond Kuts profile
Music
Pennsylvania
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

DJ Diamond Kuts will bring her Philadelphia sound to this year’s Roots Picnic

“The Roots Picnic feels like a big cookout,” the Philly-native DJ said. “It feels like that one moment where the whole city comes together.”

10 months ago

Listen 1:44
Zenos Frudakis stands beside his 10-foot-tall statue of Muhammad Ali
History
Pennsylvania
Visual Arts

Philadelphia sculptor casts a 10-foot Muhammad Ali on the 60th anniversary of his famous victory

Zenos Frudakis renders Muhammad Ali’s 1965 win over Sonny Liston for the town where it happened.

10 months ago

Listen 1:21
Making Time festival
Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Philly’s Fort Mifflin will host 2025 Making Time festival, featuring 120+ acts

Putting on shows for 25 years, Philly native Dave Pianka, aka Dave P., continues to craft “the music festival that I wanted to go to.”

10 months ago

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Evan Wang performs on stage at the Pennsylvania State Poetry Out Loud Championship
Pennsylvania
Performing Arts
Poetry

Montgomery County high school senior crowned national youth poet laureate

Evan Wang, a senior at Upper Merion High School, wants to see young people engage with poetry off the page and in everyday life.

10 months ago

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