
Performing Arts
Calling all young jazz enthusiasts for a free female-led jam session
Key of She is leading jazz workshops at the Settlement Music School this Sunday for female and nonbinary students of all levels.
5 days ago
Black Visioning Group looks ahead to year 5 supporting Black queer and trans communities
The Black Visioning Group is chasing the dream, literally, into its fifth year.
6 days ago
Roberta Flack, singer of ‘Killing Me Softly,’ has died at age 88
The Grammy Award-winning artist and educator had shared an ALS diagnosis in 2022. She was best known for ballads such as "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."
7 days ago
‘This one hit close to home’: Philadelphia Theatre Company opens a musical about cancer
“Night Side Songs” by Daniel and Patrick Lazour takes on palliative care as an audience sing-along.
2 weeks ago
Listen 3:01For parents, theater groups offer help caring for the kids
Childcare offerings help parents of young families to feed their own artistic appetite.
3 weeks ago
New board elects President Trump chair of Kennedy Center
"It is a great honor to be chairman of the Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees. We will make the Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!"
3 weeks ago
Philadelphia theaters to dim their lights in honor of the late Carrie Gorn
A Broadway tradition never before done in Philly, theaters will simultaneously dim their lights to honor the late publicist.
4 weeks ago
Bristol Riverside Theatre reopens with the help of $2M from the commonwealth
Sorely needed renovations hope to further Bristol’s economic revival.
4 weeks ago
Survey of Philly artists shows worry over finding work, space and money
The survey by Councilmember Rue Landau was launched in the wake of the closing of the University of the Arts.
4 weeks ago
Listen 1:14Kansas City Ballet kicks off Super Bowl dance smackdown against Philadelphia Ballet
As Super Bowl fever ramps up, ballet companies from Kansas City and Philadelphia are preparing to battle it out online.
1 month ago
After 21 years of ‘radical listening,’ the voice of the public is on view at Philly’s Free Library
For two decades, Sheryl Oring has taken dictation from the public by typing postcards to five White House administrations.
1 month ago
Listen 1:40‘BP with the GM’: Former colleague remembers jazz radio icon Bob Perkins
The “other BP” celebrates an iconic, Philly-born original — a journalist, beloved radio host, and mentor.
1 month ago
At Philly’s FringeArts, ‘Fallawayinto’ cherishes a forgotten champion of the transgender community
Arielle Julia Brown wrote a ritualistic memoriam about her aunt, Donna Nicole Booker, who thrived in the San Francisco underground.
1 month ago
Listen 2:03Philadelphia author's Dylan book becomes Hollywood hit with Chalamet
Elijah Wald and Avi Wolfman-Arent discuss the pivotal moment in Bob Dylan's career explored in Wald's book "Dylan Goes Electric!," which inspired "A Complete Unknown."
Air Date: January 10, 2025 3:00 pm
Listen 17:00Philadelphia Orchestra to premiere ‘Songs for Murdered Sisters’
The song cycle was created in response to an intimate partner killing spring in Canada in 2015.
2 months ago