Arts & Entertainment
Choristers fret over fate of Westminster Choir College
The world of professional choir singers has been put on edge by the announcement last week that Rider University intends to sell Westmins ...
9 years ago
Gong orchestra draws out ‘a different kind of beauty’ with virgin players [video]
In the Icebox Project Space, a huge concrete project space on American Street in North Philadelphia, 14 local musicians and artists are s ...
9 years ago
West Philly film center becomes ‘Lightbox’ to stand out more from International House
Philadelphia’s longest-running, year-round art house cinema is changing its name. What had been known as Film at Internation ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Adapt!’ because you must
Write about what you know, they say. And that’s just what Blanka Zizka, the bold and inventive artistic director of Wilma Theater, ...
9 years ago
Judge: Howard, Zimmerman can pursue suit against Al Jazeera over doping allegations
A federal judge says two Major League Baseball players can go ahead with their lawsuit on claims that an Al Jazeera documentary defamed t ...
9 years ago
In remembering Chuck Berry, we have to play both sides of his record
When a loved one dies, the last thing we want to do is dwell on the unsavory aspects of their lives. Death, above all else, is supposed t ...
9 years ago
‘Fountain’ springs eternal as joke on art world
Today, April 1, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is reviving an old art joke — one that still reflects serious issues of contemporar ...
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Stolen Rockwell painting returned to N.J. owners 40 years after theft
An original painting by Normal Rockwell — stolen from a home in Cherry Hill 40 years ago — was returned Friday morning. The FB ...
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ListenPhiladelphia Museum of Art begins construction on its next ‘wow’ moment
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has broken ground on an expansion of its iconic building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Instead of expa ...
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ListenWinterthur exhibit takes a second look at old masters of deception
This weekend, the Winterthur Museum and Garden in Delaware opens an exhibition of fakes — forged art and objects that were successfully ...
9 years ago
ListenFunk act finds theater through Polyphone
This week, the University of the Arts’ Ira Brind School of Theater Arts is hosting Polyphone, a festival of theatrical musicals tha ...
9 years ago
ListenReview: The importance of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
The Walnut Street Theatre seems a natural place to see Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which premiered ...
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ListenAttacking the NEA does not put ‘America first’
I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...
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Combatting opioids with paint: Mural Arts sets up shop in heart of epidemic
It has been all hands on deck as Philadelphia wrestles with a worsening opioid drug crisis, one that has caused ...
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ListenPhilly playwright James Ijames wins national recognition, wider audience
A Philadelphia playwright has won a national award for emerging writers. James Ijames, known as an actor, director, and writer in ...
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