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Bambi Friday (right), who was formerly incarcerated, works on a performance for the Fringe Arts Festival in which she expresses the struggles of re-entry. Seated is Natasha Cohen-Carroll, an associate of Theater of the Oppressed Philadelphia. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

Fringe Festival show highlights women’s struggles after prison

As the Philadelphia Fringe festival continues this weekend, one of its offerings is a performance featuring formerly incarcerated women r ...

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Artists express what Philadelphia’s future looks like to them

This weekend the Philadelphia Museum of Art opens an exhibition that attempts to envision a future of the city from as many perspectives ...

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Delaware

Brandywine Festival of the Arts, the Historic Odessa Brewfest and more to see and do in Delaware this week

From concerts and movies, to special events for the whole family, there is always something to see and do in Delaware. Here are some of o ...

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 In Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of 'Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano,' from left: Bob Schmidt, Tina Brock, John Zak, Sonja Robson.
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘The Bald Soprano,’ ‘Kink Haüs,’ ‘Leaps of Faith and Other Mistakes’ and ‘The Currency of Belief’

Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald SopranoIt’s a typical night at the Smiths: The conversation between them (or sometimes with no one ...

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 Perfromers from Die Cast rehearse for ''Pericles,'' a Fringe Festival offering at The Rotunda. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Theater company to select unique locations to enhance audience experience

A new theater company is debuting in Philadelphia, during the annual Fringe Festival. This weekend, Die-Cast performed an experime ...

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 Avi Borouchoff in 'Kink Haüs.'
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The Philly Fringe’s fringiest — or so it seems

What makes an entry in the Philly Fringe Festival fringe-y? The annual festival of cutting-edge and often unusual work opens around the c ...

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 Husnaa Hashim is Philadelphia's new youth poet laureate. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

Philadelphia names its newest Youth Poet Laureate

The City of Philadelphia will officially announce its new Youth Poet Laureate but also announce that the Poet Laureate program will no lo ...

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Delaware
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Harvey aid: Delaware musicians plan benefit show for Texas

Songs of the Grateful Dead will fill the air Friday night as local musicians take the stage at The Queen to raise money for Houston resid ...

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 Nick Stuccio is the president and producing director of FringeArts in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)

Philly Fringe Festival begins — with added benefits

The 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival begins Thursday, unleashing two and a half w ...

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Military

Photos give a new way to permanently honor Vietnam veterans in Washington, D.C.

A group is collecting photos of all veterans killed in Vietnam as part of a new education center to be built on the National Mall. ...

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Musician Dar Williams offers thought on orchestrating positive community change

Touring professionally for 25 years, singer and songwriter Dar Williams has passed through a lot of towns, big and small — over and ove ...

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Performing Arts

Arden Theater celebrates 30 years by returning to its roots and paying it forward

This fall, the Arden Theater in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood turns 30 years old. To mark the occasion, it has brought on a ...

9 years ago

 (image via Arden Theatre)

Arden Theater celebrates 30 years by returning to its roots and paying it forward

This fall, the Arden Theater in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood turns 30 years old. To mark the occasion, it has brought on a ...

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First experience: Rick Phillips
Delaware
Visual Arts

For Delaware artist Rick Phillips, painting is like a ‘religious experience’

From illustration to fine art, Rick Phillips has always been an artist. But it’s his fine art that made him happy. After sta ...

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Delaware

79th Annual Members’ Fine Arts Exhibition, Photography Walk at Hagley Museum and more to see and do in Delaware this week

From concerts and movies, to special events for the whole family, there is always something to see and do in Delaware. Here are some of o ...

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