Arts & Entertainment
Review: ‘The Sincerity Project’ is how you define it
An ambitious undertaking called “The Sincerity Project” might be the most insincere thing going on a stage these days – whi ...
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Review: The winter return of ‘This Is the Week That Is’
Why are “The Supremes” — Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — boogeying like that? And wh ...
11 years ago
First for Friday, December 5, 2014
Stolen Art Time is running out to catch a unique art exhibit of stolen Italian artifacts making its US debut, right here in Dela ...
Air Date: December 5, 2014
Delving into the mysteries of ‘Ode to Billie Joe’ and the elusive Bobbie Gentry
In 1967, the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” was knocked out of the No.1 spot on the charts by a slow, plaintive ballad ...
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Review: ‘Outside Mullingar’ and thoroughly inside Ireland
For an American playwright, John Patrick Shanley writes one heck of an Irish play. “Outside Mullingar,” in a radiant producti ...
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Reinvigorated West Chester Christmas parade gets TLC from QVC
Ten years ago, the annual Christmas parade in West Chester, Pennsylvania, was limp, at best. “I saw the Christmas tree uptow ...
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The visual legacy of Paul Strand, through the public’s eye
[View the story “The best of #Strandgram” on Sto ...
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Cabaret at Jewish museum with Martha Graham Cracker
This week the National Museum of American Jewish History, on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, will be re-interpreted by a drag queen. ...
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Philly Art Museum offers new look at Paul Strand, ‘master of modern photography’
Something rather strange happens when looking at Paul Strand’s photographs — an odd feeling of having seen them before. And, ...
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A year of The Pulse, and the science of food
WHYY’s The Pulse celebrates its first birthday this week, in a celebration topped off by a live broadcast on Thursday. On Frida ...
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Former South St. mecca for artists now hosting dance classes
At 40,000 square feet over four floors, the Pearl Art and Craft supplies store on South Street was one of the largest in Philadelphia. Af ...
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‘Sincerity Project’ begins 24 years of theater vérité
“Are you guys really wrestling, or are you just making the sounds of really wrestling?” Director Alex Torra, stopped r ...
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Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s different sort of ‘Cinderella’
Down Cinderella’s way, the folks are out of kilter. One of the nasty stepsisters talks back to her mom and reels in disbelief when ...
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Two Philly theater companies plan round-the-clock perfomances
At some point the inspiration will leave, the caffeine rendered useless, and the audience will dwindle down to the dregs. No sleep ...
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Recipe for Philly ‘mountain lodge’ on the river: Ice, fire and rockers
The threat of snow in the forecast makes those summertime days of lounging in a hammock seem like a distant memory. The wildly pop ...
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