Arts & Entertainment
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival returns June 26 to 30
The sixth annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival ...
12 years ago
Celebrating reopening of restored Pearl Buck house — and author’s birthday
Donna Carcaci Rhodes has been the curator at the Pearl S. Buck house for seven years, and is still discovering it. D ...
12 years ago
First Extra: Legislative Wrapup
The end of the Delaware legislative session is Sunday night. First Extra reviews what new laws were enacted. ...
Air Date: June 25, 2013
New Philly theater group revives Barrymore awards
The Barrymores are back. The annual regional theater awards for best plays and players were canceled when the presenting organizat ...
12 years ago
Laid-off music teachers perform farewell concert, hope for encore in Philly classrooms
An 80-piece orchestra performed a farewell concert Monday in the administrative offices of the Philadelphia School District, bidding adie ...
12 years ago
Review: Lending a tenor, down the shore
Attention all Philadelphians down the Shore and all Shore people down there, too: If you’ve never enjoyed the silly pleasures of ...
12 years ago
Philly classical ensemble Murmuration turns news into libretto — on the spot
If radio is “theater of the mind,” somebody needs to compose the soundtrack. Murmuration is a classical improvisation ...
12 years ago
Pianist to play a Beethoven ‘sonata-thon’ at McCarter
Ludwig van Beethoven began composing piano sonatas when he was a young man of 23, and continued composing them until he was 51, after he ...
12 years ago
Bucks County Playhouse: Rebuilding a reputation
Bucks County Playhouse, known about 60 years ago as a theatrical playground where high-level talent could flex muscles by trying out new ...
12 years ago
‘Make Music Philly’ involves whole city in harmony of performers, venues
The are plenty of music festivals and celebrations in Philadelphia, particularly in the summer. What sets ...
12 years ago
Philly Art Museum’s ‘Diana’ sculpture to be regilded
“Diana” is getting the gold leaf touch. The 13-foot sculpture of the Roman goddess was done by Augustus-Saint-Gaudens ...
12 years ago
First for Friday, June 21, 2013
Up in smoke? Two years ago, Governor Markell signed Delaware’s medical marijuana law. But after threats from the federal ...
Air Date: June 20, 2013
Philly Cultural Alliance leader Tom Kaiden stepping down
The head of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance will step down in July. Tom Kaiden, who has been with the region’s primary c ...
12 years ago
Rosenbach Museum and Library shows off two copies of America’s oldest book
Of the 1,700 copies of the very first book printed in what would become the United States, only 11 exist today. On Wednesday the Rosenbac ...
12 years ago
Review: You’re doin’ fine, ‘Oklahoma!’
There’s no skimping in the big-theater production of “Oklahoma!” that opens this season’s Pennsylvania Shakespear ...
12 years ago