Arts & Entertainment
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
ListenFirst 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
ListenAfter 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
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
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
ListenOrganizers 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
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
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
ListenCollective 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
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
‘Juvenile In Justice’ starkly portrays abuses of U.S. detention system
The gallery space inside the Crane Arts Building in Kensington is called “The Icebox.” At some point during the building̵ ...
12 years ago
First for Friday, November 8, 2013
Midwife controversy Midwives working without a permit in Delaware now face stiffer penalties, including possible jail tim ...
Air Date: November 8, 2013
RAW and sincere, but by design no plot in First Person performance
“The way I watch theater, I’m excited and troubled by how things feel true, and things feel false,” said Alex Torra of ...
12 years ago
ListenThe chaperone is minding the kids, but who’s minding the chaperone?
Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts Podcast. In this edition, public school teacher Jaso ...
12 years ago
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