Performing Arts
Poignant return for Met Opera after 18-month pandemic pause
The Met had not performed in its house since March 11, 2020, the longest gap since the company started in 1883.
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Pew Center grants $10.2 million for digital and diversity efforts
The annual Pew grants will distribute money toward arts institutions’ digital and diversity efforts.
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Fringe Festival turns 25, spawns its own mini-festival
Cannonball is a new artist-produced festival-within-the-festival, a critical sign of growth for the Philly Fringe.
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Listen 1:42Camden schools superintendent talks about the significance of a new high school campus, and we revisit Cam Anthony & Ray Didinger.
Air Date: September 6, 2021 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Made in America’s show will go on this weekend, despite severe flooding
The rain-heavy remnants of Hurricane Ida caused severe flooding of the nearby Schuylkill River, but will not affect the two-day music festival.
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Philly Naked Bike Ride, Kings of Leon, tango at the forefront and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’
Aug. 26 - Aug. 29: Things to do in Philadelphia, Del., and N.J.
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Listen 4:29Kimmel Center rolls out new vaccine mandate ahead of September reopening
The Kimmel Center also confirmed it will enforce Philadelphia’s mask mandate throughout its locations.
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An all-Black ‘Nutcracker’ is coming to Philly with hopes to make the ballet more accessible
Despite some recent changes, ballet schools and productions remain homogenous and expensive. The Chocolate Ballerina Company in Philly is trying to change that.
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Carnegie Hall returns to in-person concerts with a lot of help from the Philadelphia Orchestra
In its return to a full season of in-person performances, Carnegie Hall has programmed the Philadelphia Orchestra for an unprecedented eight concerts.
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Kensington neighbors make Shakespeare their own
A company of residents from the area around Harrowgate Park mined Shakespeare’s “Pericles” to tell the story of their neighborhood.
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Listen 2:30Here’s how Philly’s major arts venues are dealing with latest COVID restrictions
Here’s how museum and performance institutions have responded to Mayor Kenney’s COVID restrictions.
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That time a match nearly torched a newlywed on the Atlantic City boardwalk
A Broadway actor who also showed up in Hollywood movies, she was saved by a comedian known as “the jolliest man in America.”
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‘It was a family job’: After 48 years, a friendly face at the Academy of Music retires
For 48 years, Cornell Wood ushered generations of Philadelphians into the arts.
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So much for ‘hot vaxx summer.’ Delta puts a damper on festivals and concerts
The recent COVID surges around the country are putting a damper on the joys of finally experiencing live music again even as major festivals and concerts return.
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‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me’ makes its return to live audiences in Philly
Host Peter Sagal brought `Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me’ back to in-person performance at the Mann Center.
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