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Performing Arts

From left, Randy Gloss is on percussion
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

When dementia changes a scientist into an artist, a Philly play tells her story

"UnRavelled" comes to Penn, exploring Anne Adams’ life, Ravel’s "Bolero" and the connections between dementia and creativity.

8 hours ago

Girl from the North Country cast singing
Arts & Entertainment

2 Philadelphia theaters are first in line to produce new Broadway shows

The Arden Theatre and Philadelphia Theatre Company were first to secure rights to “Girl from the North Country” and “Liberation.”

2 days ago

Listen 1:54
Matt Meyer and others smile
Politics & Policy

Lights, camera, Delaware: New film tax credit aims to grow productions, jobs and the creative economy statewide

A tax credit for film and other productions that spend $100,000 in Delaware is designed to draw Hollywood to the First State.

6 days ago

Listen 1:12
two people with two Seeing Eye dogs in a theater
Arts & Entertainment

Gone to the dogs: Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point, N.J., trains Seeing Eye dogs during performances

Gateway Playhouse’s rehearsals and performances offer distracting environments for dogs learning to guide the blind.

2 weeks ago

Listen 1:48
Liv Shoup performs in her Philadelphia Fringe show
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

When life hurts, can you laugh? Fringe artists explore trauma through comedy

When life is a tragedy, where is the punchline? These Philadelphia Fringe Festival shows use humor to survive the darkest days.

2 weeks ago

Andrea Clearfield stands in front of the salon's audience
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

This eclectic concert has been taking place in a Philly living room for the last 40 years

Andrea Clearfield’s music "szalon" celebrates its 40th birthday this Sunday.

2 weeks ago

Students perform a musical number during a dress rehearsal for ''When Tides Collide
Arts & Entertainment

This play conceived by teens in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood could be the ‘ultimate toolkit’ toward becoming better adults

The Yes! And…Collaborative Theater program guides teenagers to devise an original play for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

2 weeks ago

Listen 3:04
FILE - Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran performs during
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Pro-Palestine groups announce protests outside of the Ed Sheeran concert

Sheeran hoped to keep politics out of his shows. Politics are coming to him instead.

3 weeks ago

Martha Graham Cracker
Arts & Entertainment

The first Martha Graham Cracker memorial fund supports drag cabaret artists in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Two memorial funds were planned after the death of Dito van Reigersberg. The first has distributed microgrants for the Fringe.

4 weeks ago

Annual Rethink Fashion show
Community

From thrift store finds to runway looks, Goodwill of Delaware’s fashion show turns secondhand into something new

Goodwill’s fashion show transforms donated and thrifted pieces into creative runway designs, highlighting the possibilities of reuse and secondhand style.

4 weeks ago

Listen 1:19
Julia Masli stars as an open, vulnerable, silly solver of non-solvable problems
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

How a clown on a Philly stage is helping audiences find solutions

Philly Fringe Fest’s “ha ha ha ha ha ha” is a silly, vulnerable look at the problems we all face.

4 weeks ago

Joe Torsella on stage rehearsing his one-man show.
Arts & Entertainment

Joe Torsella goes from Pa. treasurer to the Philly Fringe Fest in his first one-man show

A politician who grew up in theater, Torsella mixes his two passions in “Declaration.”

4 weeks ago

Listen 3:41
Britt Anderson and Richie Schiraldi in Cannonball Festival's
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Philly Fringe shows explore joys and trials of fatherhood

Dads take center stage in four Fringe shows that range that mix comedy, drama and even a little circus.

4 weeks ago

Greig Sargeant, Will Brill and Jenny Seastone onstage
Arts & Entertainment

With ‘Kramer/Fauci,’ the Philly Fringe opens with a reminder of civic debate circa 1993

The play about Anthony Fauci and Larry Kramer takes its script directly from a C-SPAN broadcast on which they appeared 33 years ago.

4 weeks ago

a military helmet holds bullets and a pin reading WAITING FOR WESTY
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

These Philly Fringe shows focus on veteran stories with parallels to Iran, Vietnam and beyond

A pair of shows at Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival highlight past and current challenges facing members of the armed services.

4 weeks ago

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