
Arts & Entertainment
Light the Lights! The spring season opens with our NewsWorks theater preview
The second half of the theater season is beginning to bud, and with about 50 professional theater companies in metropolitan Philadelphia, ...
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Review: ‘Hot ‘n’ Cole’ in champagne flutes filled with Porter
“Times have changed,” Cole Porter wrote as the first three words to “Anything Goes,” and the current Mauckingbird ...
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Review: ‘The Body of an American,’ the travails of a playwright
A writer named Dan O’Brien tuned into “Fresh Air” on August 27, 2007, and this is what Terry Gross was saying: & ...
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What are teens learning about Civil Rights in school?
For Martin Luther King Day, we offer this rebroadcast: According to a ...
Air Date: January 19, 2015
ListenPainting in Philly’s Old St. Joseph’s Church gets historical panel blessing [photos]
High school students from Holland, Michigan, on an annual class trip to Philadelphia visit the Old St. Joseph’s Church every year j ...
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ListenFirst for Friday, January 16, 2015
Growing pains This spring, the Delaware Children’s Museum turns five years old. A milestone bringing with it its fair sha ...
Air Date: January 16, 2015
Review: ‘A Life (or two) in the Theatre’
Are the best times in the theater when things go terribly wrong? Not in my experience, but the best times in David Mamet’s 1977 pla ...
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Turning the tables on technology with ’78 Project’ recordings
Some Philadelphia filmmakers and musicians are showing their love of old records by recording their own on antique equipment. Jose ...
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ListenWith LiveNote app, Philadelphia Orchestra widens the curtain on musical experience
The Philadelphia Orchestra is inviting its audience to, please, turn on your cell phones during the performance. A series of three ...
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A Chadds Ford homecoming for Jamie Wyeth retrospective [photos]
The house that Jamie Wyeth grew up in – an old farmhouse he later shared with this father, Andrew Wyeth, as studio space – is now pre ...
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ListenGrandson thinks big to save Oscar Hammerstein’s farm in Bucks County [photos]
Some of America’s most famous musicals including “Oklahoma,” “The King and I” and “The Sound of Music ...
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ListenFederal analysis: Arts, culture add $700B to US economy
New research from the National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that the arts and culture sector contrib ...
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Wilma’s ‘Body of an American’ frames story of haunting war photograph
The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia is now producing “The Body of an American,” a documentary-style play about war photographer ...
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ListenFirst for Friday, January 9, 2015
New year, new faces 2015 is already off to a wild start. DelDOT will have a new leader, Delaware is offering ‘Endless Dis ...
Air Date: January 9, 2015
Review: ‘Motown: The Musical,’ with A and B sides
Nobody can tell a good story about Berry Gordy Jr. better than Berry Gordy Jr. And the bad ones? Well, some of them are even in “Mo ...
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