Arts & Entertainment
Lantern Theatre company raises pay rates for union and non-union staff
A Philadelphia theater company, Lantern Theatre in Center City, will give all of its actors and crew a fifty percent pay increase for the ...
9 years ago
Pig Iron Theater plumbs Dr. Dog ‘swamp’ story for Fringe Fest show
Two creative forces in Philadelphia are teaming up to put on a show during the Fringe Festival. The popular rock band Dr. Dog and the awa ...
9 years ago
ListenThis weekend, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will open an exhibition of paintings related to Prometheus, the Greek deity who stole fire f ...
9 years ago
Please Touch Museum files for bankruptcy
The Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia has filed for bankruptcy. The children’s museum in the Centennial District of Fairmo ...
9 years ago
Back in Session Schools are back in session across our region. In Delaware there are many hot-button education iss ...
Air Date: September 10, 2015
Building housing 100 artists closed in Philadelphia over fire code violations
One of Philadelphia’s largest artist studio buildings, 915 Spring Garden, has been shut down due to fire code violations. Th ...
9 years ago
Philadelphia artist reimagines ‘Alice’ as cherished story marks 150th year [photos]
The celebrated author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, published the story of ...
9 years ago
ListenA funny thing happened on the way to the opera: a cabaret about Andy Warhol [photos]
This season, Opera Philadelphia transports audiences to exotic locations; the Baroque Paris salon of La Traviata, the Blue Ridge Mountai ...
9 years ago
Underground Railroad Game Raw, revealing, funny and poignant – “Underground Railroad Game” is hands-down the best ...
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Fringe review: ‘A Doll’s House’
In his loopy take on Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece “A Doll’s House,” Norwegian playwright/director/choreographer Jo ...
9 years ago
Joe Hill, songwriter for union crowds remembered in South Philly
One hundred years ago in November, labor organizer and songwriter Joe Hill was executed by firing squad in a Salt Lake City prison for a ...
9 years ago
Fringe reviews: ‘The Captive’ and ‘After the Rehearsal/Persona’
The Captive I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you – or I may have been in 1926, when Edouard Bordet’s “La Prision ...
9 years ago
The Pope’s Visit Pope Francis is headed to the United States in a couple weeks. You may think his visit is just ...
Air Date: September 4, 2015
Behind the scenes with FringeArts’ Underground Railroad Game
Performers in this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival have practiced their craft long and hard to make what they do on stage seem ...
9 years ago
Legal battle is joined over African sculpture of welded weapons
A piece of art shipped to Philadelphia from Africa is stuck in customs because of its unusual material. The sculpture is made entirely fr ...
9 years ago
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