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Arts & Entertainment

Colleen Hughes in the one-woman play
Shapiro on Theater
Gender
Performing Arts

‘Magdalene’ and the modern woman, from Tribe of Fools

The character we see on stage is Mary Magdalene. And more.

7 years ago

Albatross birds are among the largest sea birds. (Image from Albatross documentary)
Environment
Movies
New Jersey

Documentary ‘Albatross’ shows how our obsession with plastic is killing this bird

The film, screening April 14, will be a featured selection of this year’s Princeton Environmental Film Festival.

8 years ago

Cady (Erika Henningsen, left) wears pink along with fellow Plastics Gretchen (Ashley Park), Regina (Taylor Louderman) and Karen (Kate Rockwell) in the musical Mean Girls.
(Joan Marcus/Boneau/Bryan-Brown)
NPR

On Broadway, they wear pink: ‘Mean Girls’ is now a musical

The 2004 movie was so influential that screenwriter Tina Fey and producer Lorne Michaels figured, why not a musical?

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Food & Drink
History
Philadelphia

Cheers! It’s time, once again, to celebrate the end of Prohibition

Grin and beer it: On April 7, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt legalized the sale and consumption of beer in the U.S. after 13 years of Prohibition.

8 years ago

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Performing Schönheit, (from left) Sean Bailey, bass clarinet, Marco Blaauw, trumpet, and Emma Resmini, flute, rehearse on the Fringe Arts stage. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Music
Philadelphia

Composer’s 14-hour final work set for Philadelphia premiere

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klang will have performances on Saturday and Sunday at FringeArts.

8 years ago

Listen 4:49
(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Music
Philadelphia
Poetry

Syrian-American hip-hop artist bridges rap and Arabic poetry

The Syrian-American poet and hip-hop artist Omar Offendum spent this week in Philadelphia and will perform at the International House this Sunday.

8 years ago

Listen 2:04
The Westminster Symphonic Choir, the Keystone State Boychoir, the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, and the Sister Cities Girlchoir, perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
NewsWorks Tonight
Music
Philadelphia

Orchestra’s new crowdsourced choral work features ‘Philadelphia Voices’

The Philadelphia Orchestra will premiere a new choral work based on sounds and poems crowdsourced from area residents.

8 years ago

Listen 3:35
File photo: Philadelphia kicked off April’s Jazz Appreciation Month by naming native son Jamaaladeen Tacuma as this year’s recipient of the Benny Golson Award. (Provided)
NewsWorks Tonight
Music
Philadelphia

Philadelphia bassist kicks off Jazz Appreciation Month with award, festival

Philadelphia kicked off April’s Jazz Appreciation Month by naming native son Jamaaladeen Tacuma as this year’s recipient of the Benny Golson Award.

8 years ago

Listen 5:10
Cast of 'V to X'
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

‘V to X’ at the Arden an education in the inhumanity, inequity of mass incarceration

This brutal look at a life spent languishing in a privately operated "correctional facility" comes from theater artist Kash Goins.

8 years ago

In this Nov. 5, 2005, file photo, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno acknowledges the crowd before an NCAA college football game against Wisconsin in State College, Pa. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo, file)
Movies
Pennsylvania
Sports

‘Paterno’ movie a polarizing story with unanswered questions

The HBO movie directed by Barry Levinson debuts Saturday and stars Oscar winner Al Pacino as Joe Paterno.

8 years ago

Winston Churchill
Speak Easy
Food & Drink
History

Churchill had a tendency to tipple, but the ‘British Bulldog’ was no boozehound

'The Darkest Hour seems to show the prime minister with a whisky in every scene, but as he famously said, 'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'

8 years ago

Tye Sheridan, from left, Olivia Cooke, Philip Zhao, and Win Morisaki
Speak Easy
Movies

Blockbuster ‘Ready Player One’ a natural next step for Spielberg’s relentless career

Spielberg’s success has made him such a quintessential figure that, if you asked 10 people on the street to a name a film director, all 10 might very well identify him.

8 years ago

First
Delaware
Food & Drink
Visual Arts

Delaware carver brings out the personality in fruits and vegetables

For more than three decades, Craig Trostle has made the food taste better with his unique carvings.

8 years ago

The cast of
Speak Easy
History
Performing Arts
Race & Ethnicity

Diverse casting helps us understand the richness of the human story

The production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" at People’s Light and Theatre in Malvern, Pa., which included a multiracial ensemble of actors, stirred controversy.

8 years ago

FILE-- This July 22, 1969 file photo shows U.S. Sen Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., arriving back at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., after attending the funeral of Mary Jo Kopechne in Pennsylvania. A new feature film is in the works about the tragedy on the small Massachusetts island nearly a half century ago that rocked the Kennedy political dynasty. Kopechne drowned when a car driven by Kennedy went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick, a small island in Edgartown, Mass., on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard in July 1969. (AP Photo/Frank C. Curtin, File)
National Interest
History
Politics

Finally, a movie about the Chappaquiddick scandal

When I heard that Hollywood was making a movie about Chappaquiddick, I said to myself, "Hallelujah. It's about time."

8 years ago

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