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Arts & Entertainment

 Raj Haldar stands in front of a recent tile near Logan Circle, Philadelphia. (Image courtesy of Weathervane Music/Peter English Photo)

Enigmatic tiles inspire Philly rapper’s ‘Toynbee Suite’

For more than 20 years, an anonymous person has been busily sinking into the streets of Philadelphia a riddle about resurrecting the dead ...

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 Jillian Mueller, the female lead of
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Review: The flash (and not) of ‘Flashdance’

This just in, from the stage of “Flashdance: The Musical” at the Academy of Music: The three majestic rivers that define the ...

12 years ago

 Charlie DelMarcelle as the transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf -- and as everyone else in
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Review: Two times around with ‘I Am My Own Wife’

Among several neat things about Charlie DelMarcelle’s current run at Theatre Horizon, as the singularly eccentric German transvesti ...

12 years ago

 Joseph Gervasi, a Philadelphia-based promoter is assembling the most complete oral history of Philadelphia punk to date (‘Gentle Giant’ Photo by Karen Kirchhoff)

Assembling an ‘aural history’ of Philly punk culture

Thirteen year-old Rodney Linderman discovered punk in 1978, growing up in Coatesville, Pa., when he saw a picture of The Dead Boys in his ...

12 years ago

 Christopher Sutton as Buddy the Elf in  Walnut Street Theatre's holiday production of
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Review: ‘Elf’ dropped to Earth, as a holiday stage musical

The movie “Elf” is a sweet little holiday heart-tug. So is the musical taken from the movie and now on the Walnut Street Thea ...

12 years ago

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First for Friday, November 15, 2013

Common Core The way kids learn in school these days is nothing like it was when today’s adults were in school. With the i ...

Air Date: November 15, 2013

The less glamorous side of running a Center City art gallery

Imagine going to work each day in one of Philadelphia’s most fashionable neighborhoods, in an airy, pristine space, surrounded by f ...

12 years ago

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 Projection rooms at the Roxy were enlarged to bring them up to code and to accommodate digital equipment. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

After children’s festival, restored Roxy’s first picture show will be a while

Twenty-four hours before the Philadelphia Film Society opens the Roxy Theater on Sansom Street in ...

12 years ago

 In Arden Theatre Company's production of
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Review: Class and race in a fiery ‘Stick Fly’

The glib fast-talk in “Stick Fly” – and there’s a ton of it in the richly plotted play now at the Arden Theatre – m ...

12 years ago

 The first Nerdvemberfest will take place at the Fort Washington Holiday Inn on Nov. 16, 2013. (Image courtesy of Matthew Aaron)

Nerdvemberfest: ‘The slightly competitive equivalent of family dinner’

A suburban Pennsylvania Holiday Inn will host princesses, dragons and role-playing in the Star Wars galaxy this weekend. More than 100 ga ...

12 years ago

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 Two muscle cars collide in slow motion in the lobby of the Kimmel Center, one of several works of art from the West Collection on display to celebrate the opening of the SEI Innovation Studio. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Organizers count on new Kimmel art installation to be smashing success

Since the Kimmel Center opened 12 years ago, it has struggled to make its interior plaza hospitable. So, for the next few months, visitor ...

12 years ago

 iPic Theaters plans to restore the Boyd Theatre located at 1908 Chestnut Street to its former glory. (Nathaniel Hamilton/For Newsworks)

Philly’s palatial Boyd Theatre faces sequel as eight small cinemas

The Florida-based company iPic Theaters has plans for the dilapidated Boyd Theatre on Chestnut Street in Center City Philadelphia. ...

12 years ago

 Arden Theatre Company's second building, at 62 N. Second St., will officially be open for business Friday. Arden education  programs are already underway there. (Courtesy of Arden Theatre)
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Cutting the ribbon on Arden Theatre’s second building

At the 25-year-old Arden Theatre Company on Second Street, things were getting really tight inside its building with common areas and two ...

12 years ago

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 Traction Company's 3-story, 8,000-square-foot gallery is located on Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Collective Citywide exhibit celebrates Philly’s contemporary art scene

Billy Dufala stood like Godzilla, towering over a miniature version of his own warehouse studio. “We’re in the trusses ...

12 years ago

 Kirstin Quinn as Aubrey, and Shelli Pentimall Bookler as Veronica in Walking Fish Theatre's
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Review: Weighing in on ‘Hands Across Veronica’

The fuzzy-brained comedy “Hands Across Veronica,” at Walking Fish Theatre in Kensington, is supposed to make us think in some ...

12 years ago

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