Performing Arts
Philly arts venues to go red for live events workers
The city joins many others around the country lighting their downtowns red to push for economic assistance.
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Philly Folk Fest goes online, for both music and camping
The digitally streaming music festival offers longtime fans a way to camp through their laptops.
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Listen 2:38Kimmel Center presents live Broadway concert with Christopher Jackson
Christopher Jackson to stream favorites with a live band to benefit the Kimmel Center and other performing arts centers across the country.
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Listen 1:36BlackStar Film Festival finds a new home at Philly’s Annenberg Center
Festival creator Maori Karmael Holmes has been hired to bring cinema back to the Annenberg Performing Arts Center.
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Is singing together safe in the era of coronavirus? Not really, experts say
Schools, faith and community groups as well as professional musicians are all struggling with the risks of singing. Experts present the most recent research and offer tips.
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As fall theater season collapses, Opera Philadelphia pivots to film
Instead of producing opera for the stage, the company will turn operas into original films and release them on the company’s own online video channel.
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Listen 1:29‘It’s the new normal’: Drive-in concertgoers embrace a new summer venue
Drive-ins are the socially distant live music venues of the summer of 2020. “I don’t ever want it to stop,” said one concertgoer at People’s Light in Malvern.
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Listen 1:50Out of work for months, Philly event staff rally for more federal aid
“The live event industry was hit first, it was hit hardest, and will be the last to return,” said the head of the stagehands’ union.
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With the stage off limits, Wilma Theater tries something new: a radio play
The Wilma Theater will present its final production the 2019-20 season, the Afrofuturist work “Is God Is,” as a radio play — something it’s never done before.
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Founding director of Philly theater group resigns after racism, harassment allegations
Facing allegations of racism and sexual harassment within his organization, PlayPenn’s founding director Paul Meshejian has resigned.
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Theater artists speak out against PlayPenn leadership
An organization that helps playwrights develop new work has come under fire with accusations of racism and sexual harassment.
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Listen 1:37Hamilton, in fiction and history, is key to understanding the electoral college
When the Supreme Court ruled this past week on "faithless electors," Hamilton's name appeared five times. But the story is a little more complicated than the Broadway show.
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Wilma Theater adapts for COVID performances with ideas from the past
To maintain social distancing for theater performances, the Philadelphia company is taking cues from Shakespeare’s original Globe Theatre.
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Philadelphia Theatre Company hires resident artist to help chart its future
Philadelphia Theatre Company has hired choreographer and director Jeffrey Page as a resident artist to help it navigate a post-coronavirus art world.
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Del. coronavirus recovery: Wilmington’s Ladybug Festival goes virtual as COVID cases climb
The Ladybug Festival in Wilmington, Del. is going virtual tonight to raise money for female artists facing financial hardship in the midst of COVID-19.
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