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Arts & Entertainment

Two universities hoping to archive Tony Auth papers

Two universities are vying to be the home for the papers of Philadelphia cartoonist Tony Auth — Temple University on the East Coast ...

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First for Friday, September 12, 2014

Racial Sensitivity Training First Look this week focuses on police behavior. Wilmington’s police department ...

Air Date: September 12, 2014

 The three leads in Walnut Street Theatre's main stage production of '9 to 5: The Musical' -- from left, Amy Bodnar, Dee Hoty and Amanda Rose. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Punching in, at a greatly revamped ‘9 to 5’

If the smooth, feisty production of “9 to 5: The Musical” that opened on the Walnut Street Theatre’s main stage Wednesd ...

11 years ago

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 NewsWorks theater blogger Howie Shapiro (NewsWorks file photo)

Theater critic Howie Shapiro takes a good look at his job

When this year’s Fringe Festival ends, NewsWorks theater blogger Howie Shapiro will have seen 17 performances in less than two week ...

11 years ago

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 Experiment 39 is the Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure's unusual walking tour of Old City. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Fringe Festival show promising ‘most unusual walking tour’ delivers [map]

With so many shows playing at this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival, it’s tough to know what to check out.  And while ...

11 years ago

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 Siobhan Reardon, president and director of the Free Public Library, stands amid the rows of unused stacks at the Central Library that will be transformed into public space using a $25 million grant from the William Penn Foundation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

William Penn Foundation bestows $25 million on Free Library for innovations, renovations

The Free Library of Philadelphia has received the largest gift in its 120-year history: $25 million from the William Penn Foundation. ...

11 years ago

 Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing make up the musical duo Hymn for Her.

Cigar-box guitar gives musical duo Hymn for Her unique sound

It’s got three strings, two pickups, and a broomstick handle. But what really makes Lucy Tight’s guitar stand out is its ciga ...

11 years ago

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 The office-staff cast of '9 to 5' at the end of a musical number in the Walnut Street Theatre production. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Places, everyone! Our NewsWorks fall theater preview opens the season

The theater season has begun, and in a region with about 50 professional theater companies you can get anything you want over a few month ...

11 years ago

 Actor David Morse paces the performance space at the Fringe Arts Building before his first and only performance of 'White Rabbit, Red Rabbit.' (Emma Lee/WHYY)

‘White Rabbit, Red Rabbit’ actors describe dramatic demands of singular performance

The main conceit of “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit,” one of the curated productions of the current Philadelphia Fringe Festival, i ...

11 years ago

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 Peter Andrew Danzig (left) and Zachary Chiero as star-crossed Mummers in the Tribe of Fools production of its original 'Two Street.' (Photo courtesy of Plate3Photography)
Shapiro on Theater

Fringe Festival review: ‘Two Street’

The problem for Ronnie and Jules is not that they’re gay and falling for each other. The problem is, the relationship appears star- ...

11 years ago

In Philly, men vie for prize of being next ‘Price is Right’ model

Hundreds of men in Philadelphia lined up to be the next top model on the longest-running, daily TV game show in the world. “ ...

11 years ago

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 Ethan Lipkin (left) and David Stanger in the Ideopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of 'Rhinoceros.' (Photo courtesy of Johanna Austin)
Shapiro on Theater

Fringe Festival reviews: ‘Rhinoceros’ and ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’

A duo of reviews from Howie Shapiro; Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s “Rhinoceros,” and “White Rabbit R ...

11 years ago

 The cast of New Paradise Laboratories' 'The Adults,' a part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. (Photo courtesy of plate3photography)
Shapiro on Theater

Fringe Festival reviews: ‘The Adults,’ ’99 Breakups’ and ‘Suspended’

A trio of Fringe Festival reviews from Howie Shapiro; “The Adults,” “99 Breakups,” and “Suspended.” ...

11 years ago

 Martha Graham Cracker performed with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra Friday, and then with her band, at the newly opened Fringe Arts Building. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)
Shapiro on Theater

Performance, party scene, new building and Martha: 2014 Fringe Festival begins [photos]

The 2014 Philly Fringe Festival had officially begun, with 135 shows and attractions in a wide swath of the city. But nowhere was the act ...

11 years ago

US returns 9 stolen Cabrera paintings to Peru

The U.S. has returned nine stolen 18th-century paintings by Mexican artist Miguel Cabrera to the government of Peru. Manhattan U.S ...

11 years ago

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