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Arts & Entertainment

 With encouragement from Techne's Suzanne Thorpe, Willow Vass, 12, makes a contact microphone. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Girls Rock Philly helps young musicians break sound barriers

Girls at a summer workshop for rock and roll in Philadelphia are not just learning how to play music, they are learning to make the instr ...

12 years ago

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 Playwright Christopher Durang as Vanya and Marilu Henner as Masha in Durang's
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Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ and the playwright, too

Bucks County Playhouse is doing “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” just the way it should be done: as a whole-hearted goof ...

12 years ago

Sabrina Slipchenko (left) and Ainy'e Clark of Team Philadelphia perform at the Brave New Voices poetry slam. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Brave new voices ring out for poetry competition in Philly [photos]

About 450 young poets from around the country are in Philadelphia as part of the 17th annual ...

12 years ago

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 A portion of Levi Buffum's LEGOdelphia, with the Comcast building (left) and Liberty One and Two (right) (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Building a detailed model of Philly, block by Lego block [gallery]

The city of Philadelphia is now being rendered in Lego. Every building in Center City – from Race Street down to Spruce Street, ...

12 years ago

 Ben Dibble in Flashpoint Theatre Company's production of 'Herringbone' (Photo courtesy of Ian Guzzone)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: A ‘Herringbone’ that’s checkered

From: The Department of Basic Accuracy and Clarity Re: Flashpoint Theatre’s “Herringbone” We have complet ...

12 years ago

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First for Friday, July 18, 2014

This episode will be available for viewing through August 3. Fire Fight Nobody will argue ...

Air Date: July 18, 2014

 Screen grab from Nintendo Entertainment System video game 'The Legend of Zelda.'

For this storyteller, ‘The Legend of Zelda’ theme song was a life-changer

Last weekend at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia, storytellers told tales about the song that either defined or changed their lives. For Joh ...

12 years ago

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 We Are Bandits, an immersive performance inspired by the Russian feminist group Pussy Riot, explores feminism, protest art and activism. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

From Pussy Riot to Susan B. Anthony, Philly production fuses eight stories of protest

Pussy Riot, the Russian activist collective whose members were jailed following a guerrilla performance in a Moscow church, is now the in ...

12 years ago

 David Ingram (left) and Kevin Bergen in  People's Light & Theatre Company's production of 'Bach at Leipzig' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Bach at Leipzig,’ accompanied by lesser colleagues

The super-talky “Bach at Leipzig” is a battle among inferiors fighting for the same high position. In Leipzig, Germany, the g ...

12 years ago

 Dajah Thomas, 16, gets a ride down Fletcher Street on Lou Fletcher's horse, Montana. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Filmmaker choreographs ‘horse tuning’ in North Philly

Before he traveled from Paris to Philadelphia, filmmaker Mohamed Bourouissa thought cowboys were like John Wayne or the Marlboro Man, i.e ...

12 years ago

Artist Candy Coated lays out a hopscotch game on the Eakins Oval magic carpet. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Rolling out the carpet for magical summer pop-up park at Eakins Oval

Candy Coated, formerly Candy Depew, is an artist who always wanted to make something you could see from space. This may be as close as sh ...

12 years ago

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First for Friday, July 11, 2014

Strengthening Delaware’s DUI Laws Delaware isn’t waiting around for those who drive under the influence of alcohol t ...

Air Date: July 11, 2014

Cross-country skateboarder Kevin Kreider learned how to skate in December of 2013, and started his journey on April 15th 2013. He arrived in Philadelphia on July 10th. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Philly native skateboarding across the country to find calm and his hair [photos]

Ten pairs of shoes, four sets of wheels, three pairs of elbow and kneepads, 3,300 miles and 86 days ago, Philadelphia native Kevin Kreide ...

12 years ago

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 Cyrus Newitt, Ginna Hoben, Suzan Perry, Joseph Robinson, and Marianne Tatum are shown in a production of
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3 Jersey Shore theaters to check out in their summer season

Ah, the Shore: Surf and cotton candy, sand and fine dining, Skee-Ball and theater. … Theater? Yes — professional thea ...

12 years ago

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 Jessica DalCanton as Olivia in Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's 'Twelfth Night' opening performance, at the Parkway outside the central Free Library. (Photo courtesy of Howard Shapiro)
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Review: ‘Twelfth Night’ in a comedy of real-life errors

There are enough challenges in a Shakespeare play for any troupe of actors, and often for audiences. But on Thursday, the opening-night c ...

12 years ago

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