
Arts & Entertainment
How turning 40 helped Yannick Nézet-Séguin conduct long-silent pieces
This week, for the first time in its history, the Philadelphia Orchestra is performing Vaughan Williams’ Symphony Number 4. ...
10 years ago
ListenCurtis composer builds musical layers with ‘Cymbeline’ score
Composer David Ludwig has written premieres for major ensembles, including the Philadelphia Orchestra. The teacher of composition at the ...
10 years ago
ListenWinding road leads Jesse Morgan to help Owls take flight
For the first few possessions, the giant scoreboard inside the Liacouras Center displayed two big zeros. Neither Temple University ...
10 years ago
ListenEdit-a-thon helps close Wikipedia’s gender gap [photos]
Maybe you’ve never heard of the artists Chrissy Conant or Philadelphia native Nancy Cox-McCormack. Now, if you wanted to find mo ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Milk Like Sugar’ but not so sweet
Kirsten Greenidge’s “Milk Like Sugar,” in a bold staging from Simpatico Theatre Project on four small spaces on the top ...
10 years ago
Rare chance to taste rare beer brings cheer and charity to Philly
Seated in a folding chair beneath two blankets, Christina Forsythe shivered in Monday morning’s 25-degree cold outside Monk’s ...
10 years ago
Drexel students bring modern mixes to archive of funky recordings
“It’s funky. It’s just fun. I don’t know …It’s cool,” said Jake Keenan, a sophomore at Drexel U ...
10 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Under the Skin’ and going deep
Michael Hollinger, in his eighth play for Arden Theatre Company, has written ostensibly about a man who needs a kidney transplant and ask ...
10 years ago
First for Friday, February 27, 2015
Developing Dover Making downtown Dover more attractive for developers and new businesses-that’s the goal for town leaders ...
Air Date: February 27, 2015
Disney features brought to you in living color at Philly Flower Show [photos]
Disney’s movie “Maleficent” is an alternative telling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, starring Angelina Jolie’ ...
10 years ago
ListenReview: Twisting the ‘Stairs to the Roof’
In Tennessee Williams’ vision, his play “Stairs to the Roof” is about an idealist who fights the industrialized world. ...
10 years ago
Fire, debt, storm conspire to sink Jersey Shore theater
More than two years later, Hurricane Sandy is still causing damage at the Jersey Shore. The Surflight Theatre on Long Beach Island ...
10 years ago
Gift to Princeton puts spotlight on rare books housed at the university for decades [photos]
Last week, Paul Needham got a call at 8:30 p.m., from the BBC. It was 1:30 a.m. London time, and a late-night radio show wanted to talk w ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Othello’ with no-frills power
In a small, bare playing space with the audience on three sides, Curio Theatre Company delivers a sizzling “Othello.” Th ...
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Photos at Princeton chronicle urban decline, and show pathways to solutions
The show features photojournalism, urban planning maps, film loops, and art photography to show how all these forms of image-making contr ...
10 years ago