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Arts & Entertainment

 Tim Settle (left) and Simon Donaldson at People's Light & Theatre Company in 'Jason and the Argonauts.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: Tromping across the world with ‘Jason and the Argonauts’

Pity poor mythological Jason. He finds out his father was killed by his uncle, who’s become a cruel king. He sets out to aveng ...

11 years ago

 Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric.

‘Citizen’ a poetic take on American race relations

Claudia Rankine is angry, but not the kind of angry that gets people marching in the streets. During an interview in the lobby of the Dou ...

11 years ago

 Jason Klemm as Rory, the pub owner, in Society Hill Playhouse's production of 'Lafferty's Wake.' (Photo courtesy of Michelle Pauls)
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Review: A high old time at ‘Lafferty’s Wake’

Let’s raise a pint to Charlie Lafferty. He was easy with a joke, yet quick to anger. He was a good husband, except when he&nbs ...

11 years ago

Kevin Smith to shoot ‘Clerks III’ in Philly

This week, filmmaker Kevin Smith posted to Facebook that “Clerks III” – a sequel to his hit 1994 indie film – wil ...

11 years ago

 'Young Punch Juggling' by Connecticut-based artist Robert Taplin is the second in an ongoing series of temporary sculptures erected onto the façade of PAFA's historic building on North Broad Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Sculpture above Academy of the Fine Arts entrance packs a Punch

You don’t see too many buildings with a plinth about the door, anymore. The small platform built into a building façade to support ...

11 years ago

 From left, Rob Tucker and Jennie Eisenhower in 11th Hour Theatre Company’s 'Field Hockey Hot.' (Photo courtesy of Chrissy K Photography)
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Review: The red-hot ‘Field Hockey Hot’

The new musical “Field Hockey Hot” is a hoot. It’s the first world premiere that the spunky 11th Hour Theatre Company h ...

11 years ago

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First for Friday, March 13, 2015

The Player’s Knee The melting snow means the spring and summer season are right around the corner. For years, doctors and ...

Air Date: March 13, 2015

 Judith Lightfoot Clarke and Ian Merrill Peakes are the Macbeths in Arden Theatre Company's production of 'Macbeth.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: ‘Macbeth’ newly faceted

It’s not just the three sisters who are weird in the current version of “Macbeth” at Arden Theatre Company. Alexander B ...

11 years ago

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 Judith Lightfoot Clarke and Ian Merrill Peakes are the Macbeths in Arden Theatre Company's production of 'Macbeth.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: ‘Macbeth’ newly faceted

It’s not just the three sisters who are weird in the current version of “Macbeth” at Arden Theatre Company. Alexander B ...

11 years ago

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Philly students take (many) steps to bring complicated world of Rube Goldberg to life

For several months, high school students across Philadelphia have been trying to figure out the most complicated way to erase a chalkboar ...

11 years ago

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With city in flux, public art project seeks ideas for new Philly monument

A new public art and research project is posing this question to Philadelphians: What is your ideal city monument? ...

11 years ago

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The fraktur collection at the Free Library includes books and artifacts as well as documents. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Contemporary artists find resonance in old folk tradition

“When you make a tweet and put an image with it, it has a lot more power,” said British artist Bob and Roberta Smith. “ ...

11 years ago

Drawing of Adam and Eve, c. 1834‑1835. Attributed to Samuel Gottschall, American, 1808 ‑ 1898. Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 8 × 12 1/2 inches (20.3 × 31.8 cm). 125th Anniversary Acquisition.  Promised gift of Joan and Victor Johnson. (Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Bright hallmarks of early German immigrants, fraktur collection goes to Philly art museum

Life was not easy for many of the German immigrants who arrived in Philadelphia in the 18th century. They dispersed throughout Southeaste ...

11 years ago

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 The Philadelphia Film Society has purchased the Prince Theater with plans to screen films and rent out the space to performance companies. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

With new owner, Prince Theater continues reign in Center City

A longtime renter has stepped up to buy the troubled Prince Theater in Center City Philadelphia. The 450-seat venue on Chestnut Street at ...

11 years ago

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Philadelphia artist and gallery owner Shelley Spector has a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Perelman Building. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Former gallery owner who built other artists gets her own show at Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is giving Shelley Spector her first solo museum show. The sculpture artist has been a longtime Philadelphi ...

11 years ago

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