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Star Wars’ operatic score gets full orchestral treatment

"Star Wars" will be screened with its dialogue and sound effects intact, but with its score stripped out, replaced by a live version performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra.

8 years ago

John Jarboe, portraying Edith Piaf, crowd surfs off of the stage at the conclusion of the Bastille Day celebration at Eastern State Penitentiary.
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Philly’s Bastille Day tradition goes out with a bang

For nearly a quarter century Terry McNally has played Marie Antoinette for Philadelphia's satirical Bastille Day celebration in the city's Fairmount section.

8 years ago

Artist Kathy Bushi in her Milton, Delaware gallery (Brian Drouin/WHYY)
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Animals, people and even family bring Delaware folk artist’s paintings to life

Kathy Buschi considers herself a folk artist. Self-taught, she adds life to her local scenes of Delaware by using people, animals and the occasional family member.

8 years ago

Luigi Sottile and Mairin Lee in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's production of
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A delightful ‘Shakespeare in Love’ from the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

The fictional Oscar-winning film about Shakespeare, his writer's block and the way he's smitten by a London woman becomes a stage play that he could have written.

8 years ago

Scarlett Johansson announced on Friday she is dropping out of the starring role in Rub & Tug, a film about a transgender man who ran an extensive prostitution ring during the 1970s and '80s. (Jordan Strauss/Invision)
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Amid backlash, Scarlett Johansson drops transgender role

"In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project," Johansson said

8 years ago

Pianist Lance Wiseman plays
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Local pianist to romance the butterfly at Insectarium

The butterfly pavilion at the Insectarium in Northeast Philadelphia will host a concert of bug music.

8 years ago

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Joey Arrigo, as the character Waz, performs on a lighting fixture in
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The thrill and exhaustion of watching Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Volta’

Some of the show's performances are so extreme (and look so dangerous), you wonder how anyone ever learned to do this stuff.

8 years ago

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Delaware Shakespeare players entertain a big crowd at Rockwood Park in 2017's performance of Henry V. (Alessandra Nicole/Delaware Shakespeare)
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Delaware ministers take turns on stage in Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’

Seven faith leaders from the local community who will play the part of the good friar over the next two weeks in the Delaware Shakespeare’s production.

8 years ago

Families gather in the Great Stair Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for ArtSplash, a kid-friendly summer program that is having extraordinary success.
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Art Museum summer program caters to young Modernists

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's summertime Art Splash program takes cues from urban Modernism.

8 years ago

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Teen rocker Snail Mail takes the stage at Union Transfer — July 14, 2018

Lindsay Jordan is a songwriter who is wise beyond her years.

8 years ago

Croatia's Mario Mandzukic celebrates after the semifinal match between Croatia and England at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Your Weekly Roundup for July 12-19, 2018

If you won’t be watching the World Cup final, or down in the waves, check out one of these events.

8 years ago

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Recording artist Lauryn Hill pays tribute to Nina Simone during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Richard)
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Twenty Years after ‘Miseducation,’ Lauryn Hill to perform seminal album at Festival Pier – July 13, 2018

The R & B legend is scheduled to perform the album in its entirety and will be accompanied by some big-name guests.

8 years ago

Melissa Joan Hart, star of the WB network series
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TGIF: Forgotten ‘90s TV shows resurrected for Friday the 13th — July 13, 2018

Remember "Baby Talk"? What about "Odd Man Out"? No? Revisit these and other not-quite-classics at PhilaMOCA on Friday.

8 years ago

Jessica DalCanton and Jared Reed in Hedgerow Theater's stage adaptation of the film
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‘His Girl Friday,’ the old days, and now (Hedgerow Theatre)

A classic film comedy, adapted for the stage, has a different resonance these days.

8 years ago

This monumental leather jacket sculpture, titled PODERWAĆ, 2017, by Ursula von Rydingsvard, inspired a film series on the leather jacket in cinema. (Credit: Carlos Avendaño)
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Hypermasculine, totally queer: Celebrating the leather jacket in cinema — July and August 2018

The Fabric Workshop and Museum has partnered with Lightbox Film Center to present a film series celebrating the iconic jacket.

8 years ago

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