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Performing Arts

Philly Naked Bike Ride 2019
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Naked Bike Ride, Art of Rap, Ukrainian Festival, Philly Bookstore Crawl, and Waterfront Jazz Fest in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Aug. 24 - 27: Naked Bike Ride in Philly, Eric Church in N.J., and ‘70s Celebration in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

2 years ago

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Amos Lee performs at Railbird Music Festival on Sunday, June 4, 2023, at The Infield at Red Mile in Lexington. He is holding a guitar in his hands and sings into a microphone.
Studio 2

Singer-Songwriter Amos Lee, Rick Steves on Travel, Sharks at the Shore

This episode holds the best of the summer. Rick Steves joins us to talk about how to travel, a biologist tells us why we need to love sharks and Amos Lee plays live music.

Air Date: August 23, 2023 12:00 pm

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Bryce Zenon portrays Zooman, the 15-year-old who fatally shoots a 12-year-old girl in Charles Fuller's ''Zooman and the Sign.'' The play is being staged by Theatre in the X
Arts & Entertainment

After 10 years, is Philly’s Theatre in the X a model for the future of American theater?

The free performance of Charles Fuller’s 1979 drama “Zooman and the Sign” grapples with neighborhood violence that has hardly changed.

2 years ago

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A woman dancing at a festival
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Food festivals in Philly and Del., ‘The Lion King,’ and Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Aug. 17 - 20: Philly Taco Fest, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes in N.J., and the Beer Bourbon & BBQ Fest in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

2 years ago

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David Devan poses for a photo
Arts & Entertainment

Opera Philadelphia’s leader announces departure as the company tightens its belt

Devan turned Opera Philadelphia into an industry leader. He will leave as the company shrinks and adjusts for a changing world.

2 years ago

DJ Jazzy Jeff spinning in Philadelphia in 2003.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Hip-hop’s birthday, New Hope Auto Show, ‘Bridges of Madison County,’ and the Obon Festival in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Aug. 10 - 13: Hip-hop celebrations in Philly, 50 Cent & Busta Rhymes in N.J., and “A Quiet Epidemic” screening event in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

2 years ago

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Fireworks explode over the Philadelphia Museum of Art during an Independence Day celebration, Friday, July 4, 2014, in Philadelphia.
Arts & Entertainment

Philly philanthropies launch $9 million fund for America’s 250th birthday

America’s 250th birthday is coming in 2026, along with the World Cup, All-Star Game, and PGA Tour. Will you be ready?

2 years ago

Thousands of people packed Girard Ave. through Spring Garden for the 2nd Street Festival
Arts & Entertainment

2nd Street Festival draws thousands of people to Northern Liberties

Roughly 200 vendors, including 22 food trucks and 55 local artists, were lined up between Girard Avenue to Spring Garden Sunday.

2 years ago

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Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie at a Barbie event in June in Sydney, Australia.
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

‘Barbie’ is the only billion-dollar blockbuster solely directed by a woman

Greta Gerwig's film joins a high-grossing list of mostly male-directed movies, most of them with men leading the casts.

2 years ago

Artist in residence Alex Tatarsky, wearing a gnome costume, looks up towards the sky. Trees and grass are visible in the background.
Arts & Entertainment

‘The performance of thoughtful melancholy’: Glen Foerd estate presents its resident garden hermit

In their performance piece “Gnome Core,” artist Alex Tatarsky plays a cranky hermit with one of the worst jobs in history.

2 years ago

Audience members look towards a screen that says
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

BlackStar Film Festival, Fall Out Boy, and 2nd Street Festival in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Aug. 3 - Aug. 6: BlackStar Film Festival in Philly, Fall Out Boy in N.J., and Dean Ford & The Beautiful Ones in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

2 years ago

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View of dancers in the spotlight on stage from above
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Fringe returns with a focus on local performance artists

The 27th festival of experimental and avant-garde work will come back in September, as the theater industry still reels from the pandemic.

2 years ago

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File photo: Angus Cloud, a cast member in the HBO drama series ''Euphoria,'' poses at the premiere of the series at the ArcLight Hollywood, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Los Angeles. Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco ''Fez'' O'Neill on the HBO series ''Euphoria,'' has died. He was 25. Cloud's publicist, Cait Bailey, said McCloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
Arts & Entertainment

Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25

Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.

2 years ago

File photo: Actor Paul Reubens portraying Pee-wee Herman poses for a portrait while promoting ''The Pee-wee Herman Show'' live stage play, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, in Los Angeles. Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement.
Arts & Entertainment

Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens dies from cancer at 70

Reubens' character, with his too-tight gray suit, white chunky loafers and red bow tie was best known for the film “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and the television series.

2 years ago

The cast of Shakespeare in Clark Park's ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' perform the opening number of the 1971 rock musical version in Clark Park.
Arts & Entertainment

‘We’re in competition with the couch’: Philadelphia theater plots its future

The pandemic fundamentally changed how audiences go to live theater. Now local companies are banding together to face the future.

2 years ago

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