Arts & Entertainment
At Philly gallery, developmentally disabled artists get respect as ‘outsiders’
A group of developmentally disabled adults in the greater Philadelphia region is now represented in one of Center City’s most respe ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll’ and other miscellany
The young and versatile actor Eric Scotolati, who in four seasons has appeared with at least nine theater companies here, is being put to ...
11 years ago
Barnes Foundation joins surge to shield ash trees from destructive beetles [photos]
The invasive emerald ash borer beetle is approaching the greater Philadelphia region, threatening to devastate trees in South Jersey, Del ...
11 years ago
Ardmore tailor among Old World masters featured in ‘Men of the Cloth’
A beloved tailor from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, who died three years ago, is now a subject of a documentary film about master tailors around ...
11 years ago
Founder moving on after 27 years of keeping Philly folk traditions from slipping away [photos]
Folklorist Debora Kodish founded the Philadelphia Folklore Project 27 years ago as a place where people congregate, exhibit, exchange ide ...
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Fahey fans keep American primitive guitar tradition alive in Philadelphia [video]
Just as folk music was exploding on the counter-culture scene in the 1960s, John Fahey started playing solo, steel-string acoustic guitar ...
11 years ago
Review: Surprise, surprise! ‘Ritu Comes Home’
The funny new play called “Ritu Comes Home,” is a paradox: It’s as urbane as it is juvenile. That’s because its m ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘The Screwtape Letters’ from Hell to the stage
If the devil really is in the details, then C.S. Lewis got it right. His 1942 book, “The Screwtape Letters,” is a point-by-po ...
11 years ago
Kimmel celebrates pipe organ and its music; puppet performance, silent film score [photos]
On Saturday, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia will offer a free, all-day festival of organ music to celebrate its own Fred J. Cooper Mem ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘Michael the Rebel,’ justice and the power of obsession
A new theater company called Humble Treasure Productions, supported by donors to the Web’s Kickstarter and founded by a young theat ...
11 years ago
First for Friday, June 6, 2014
Brown vs. Board plus 60 Sixty years ago, the US Supreme Court’s major accomplishment was the end of separate but equal sch ...
Air Date: June 5, 2014
Review: ‘The Real Thing,’ the real Stoppard
The heavy-hitting playwright Tom Stoppard has a special way of thinking, and that’s what makes him a singular voice. He ties ...
11 years ago
Playing Google’s nontraditional recruitment game
NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts podcast. Justine Parks Cuny describes her trip to Seattle during a manic episode fo ...
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At Eastern State, massive sculpture points to exploding U.S. incarceration rate
A 3-D infographic illustrating the rise in American incarceration rates now stands at Philadelphia’s historic Eastern State Peniten ...
11 years ago
Curtis Institute graduates to devote a year of service to community
This fall, the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia will inaugurate a new service year for graduates from the renowned music conservatory. ...
11 years ago