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Performing Arts

Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Company’ and ‘Thomas Is Titanic’

Samuel Beckett's words in whispers and a solo-performance obsession with Kate Winslow,

8 years ago

Delaware Theatre Company presents
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Delaware Theatre Co. opens 40th season with touchdown in ‘Sanctions’

The play takes a hard look at the underbelly of college athletic programs.

8 years ago

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from left to right: Carson Wentz, Jake Arrieta, Joel Embiid (AP)
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Philly Sports!

Guests: Ray Didinger, Marcus Hayes It’s an hour of Philly sports! The Eagles are coming off a rough Week 2, hav ...

Air Date: September 19, 2018 10:00 am

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(Photo credit, Bridgitte Lacombe)
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Gary Shteyngart and lessons from the recession

Guests: Gary Shteyngart, ...

Air Date: September 17, 2018 10:00 am

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The cast of Revolution Shakespeare's
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Troilus and Cressida’ and ‘Plunge’

A Shakespeare tragedy, and a look from the future into the past.

8 years ago

Tim Huenke is a restorative luthier and owner of Superior Guitar Works in Flourtown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Music
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Instruments in need of more than just TLC are brought back to life by Montco luthier

NewsWorks Tonight’s Dave Heller visited the workshop of restorative luthier, Tim Huenke, who owns and operates Superior Guitar Works in Flourtown, Pa.

8 years ago

Listen 7:01
Artist John Dowell moves through his installation,
History
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Cotton as muse at the African American Museum

Artist John Dowell mixes personal memory and American history in his surreal vision of cotton, now at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Inside The Woodlands manor, in the Philadelphia Artists' Collective production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Mary Rose’ and ‘Eccentricities of a Nightingale’

A play by the creator of Peter Pan, and a rewarding Tennessee Williams work.

8 years ago

Bradley Cooper plays musician Jackson Maine in A Star Is Born. In addition to playing the male protagonist, Cooper is making his directorial debut. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
NPR
Movies
Music

Bradley Cooper on the personal story behind ‘A Star Is Born’

Bradley Cooper has had a story to tell for a long time — about fame, addiction, his relationship with his dad.

8 years ago

So Percussion, 2014 (Claudia Hansen)
NewsWorks Tonight
Performing Arts

So Percussion marks 5th year in residence at Princeton with a free concert

Princeton University went beyond the usual suspects when it selected the quartet So Percussion as their Edward T. Cone Performers in Resi ...

8 years ago

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Temple Students Olivia Chiaravalli, Shandler McNelis, and Alyssa Eder jump as the mist rolls past at the site-specific art installation titled
Philadelphia
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Visual Arts

The story behind the light-colored mist in Dilworth Park’s new installation

Dilworth Park at Philadelphia City Hall has opened the first phase of its permanent art piece, "Pulse."

8 years ago

Radio Times
LGBTQ
Performing Arts

Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Guests: John Jarboe, Sally Ollove Philadelphia’s Bearded Ladies Cabaret is debuting Do You Want a Cookie ...

Air Date: September 13, 2018 10:00 am

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Tania El Khoury looks over letters she has received in response to her work. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
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September 13 - 20, 2018

Suburban Fringe, Tania El Khoury’s ‘ear-whispered,’ and more events this week

Taste an under-appreciated native fruit, take a stroll down Baltimore Avenue, or try one of our other picks for this week.

8 years ago

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The Electric Factory sign in 2013, (top) and Wednesday, signless (bottom). (Emma Lee, Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Music

Pulling the plug on Electric Factory: Rock club sold, name retired

The legendary Electric Factory, which helped launch rock music in Philadelphia, has been sold. It will still operate as a music venue, but under a different name.

8 years ago

Miss New York Nia Franklin reacts after being named Miss America 2019, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, in Atlantic City, N.J. (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)
Media
National
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Miss America ratings fall amid drop of swimsuit competition

The Miss America ceremony subtracted the swimsuit competition for the first time in its 98-year history, and subtracted one million television viewers, too.

8 years ago

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