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 Jessica Lang rehearses 'Scape' with her dancers.  The choreographer is debuting a new work based on interviews with veterans with PTSD. (Photo by Christopher Jones)

Dance about war to be performed at Prince Theater

One of the more prominent choreographers working today has returned to Philadelphia to perform this week. Jessica Lang (the choreo ...

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 Visitors to the Free Library of Philadelphia look for clues in rare books in the Elkins Room as part of an immersive theater experience celebrating the detective novel. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philadelphia’s Free Library stages an ambitious detective mystery game [photos]

In the lobby of the Free Library on the Parkway in Philadelphia, I joined a group of three people I’ve never met before. We’r ...

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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

The International House. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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

 Aneta Kernová in Wilma Theater’s  production of 'Adapt!' (Photo courtesy of  Alexander Iziliaev)
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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

 These are 2016 file photos showing Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard, (left), and Washington Nationals' Ryan Zimmerman.  (AP Photo, file)

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

 This Feb. 26, 2012 file photo, musician Chuck Berry plays
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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

Marcel Duchamp's ''Fountain,'' on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is an ordinary urinal purchased in a hardware store. This is a 1950 version of the 1917 original submitted under the pseudonym R. Mutt to the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York

‘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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Young Grant family members, cousins (from left) Emily Murta, Kristen Murta, and Kaitlin Grant, get an up-close look at the family heirloom for the first time. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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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Philadelphia 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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Robert Lawrence Trotter deliberately damaged is forgeries of American folk art to make them seem old. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Winterthur 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 ...

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 Martha Stuckey, frontwoman of Red 40 and the Last Groovement, (out of costume).(Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

Funk 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 ...

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 Mary Martello as Lady Bracknell and Daniel Fredrick as Algernon in Walnut Street Theatre's production of 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: 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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 The budget blueprint for President Donald Trump's first budget and released by the Office of Management and Budget is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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Attacking 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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