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Arts & Entertainment
First for Friday, October 11, 2013
Turf war The partial government shutdown is hitting our soldiers and airmen where it hurts, in their wallets. If that wa ...
Air Date: October 11, 2013
Cleopatra bobbleheads are among treasures of Egyptian kitsch
This weekend the University of Pennsylvania museum launches an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of its sphinx. ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘Emma’ — When does a story become theater?
Can a stage adaptation be too faithful to the book it’s taken from? The version of Jane Austen’s venerable “Emma,” ...
11 years ago
FringeArts Building allows ‘fringey’ spirit of festival to continue all year in Philly
This weekend, a new performance venue will open on the Philadelphia waterfront. The FringeArts Building at Race Street and Columbus Boule ...
11 years ago
Historic Philadelphia mansion leaves imprint on Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Signature of All Things’
In Elizabeth GIlbert’s breakthrough, bestselling memoir, “Eat, Pray. Love,” she goes on a globetrotting journey seeking ...
11 years ago
ListenAfter legendary high school drama director bows out, former student takes on role in Levittown
After 44 years of ground-breaking theater at the high school level, Lou Volpe retired in May. Volpe created a legendary drama prog ...
11 years ago
ListenDrenched in graffiti, iconic artwork by Shepard Fairey now under cover in Fishtown
Something’s missing on the side of a building in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood. Drivers heading up Frankford Avenue no ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: ‘The Brothers Size’ — tough love, anyone?
It’s a treat to see “The Brothers Size,” a stirring piece about two adult brothers who mostly get along by not getting ...
11 years ago
‘What We Sow’ dinner event transplanted to Center City due to U.S. shutdown
The Mural Arts Project has spent months planning a series of community engagement events, called “What We Sow,” that was supp ...
11 years ago
First for Friday, October 4, 2013
Protecting student athletes You only have to look at the $765-million NFL concussion settlement to know that this is a bi ...
Air Date: October 4, 2013
Review: Barbara Cook and the rebirth of a cabaret
When the celebrated performer Barbara Cook sang her first notes Wednesday night at the revitalized Prince Music Theater, she wasn’t ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘Parade’ passes by, then and now and all at once
The Arden Theatre Company’s stage bursts with talent in its meticulously delivered production of “Parade,” but the pers ...
11 years ago
ListenWhen you know that the boy with a gun doesn’t really want to shoot you
Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts Podcast. In this edition, a Temple grad and Philadel ...
11 years ago
ListenIn new book, Bill Bryson revisits marvelous and mundane summer of 1927
The summer of 2013 has come and gone, but Bill Bryson wants to tell you about the summer of 1927. “It was the most magical a ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Evil Dead — the Musical.’ Deadly? Or just evil?
Take cold comfort in the fact that “Evil Dead – the Musical” – a piece of juvenile, B-grade Grizzly Kitsch playing here i ...
11 years ago