Performing Arts
PHL LIVE Center Stage highlights local talent in music competition series
Winners from each category will be awarded $1,000 prize in each award category.
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Listen 1:00A South Philly Mexican restaurant hosts a radical rewrite of ‘Twelfth Night’
Delaware Shakespeare brings its bilingual version of “Twelfth Night” to South Philly’s Alma del Mar, with a message about U.S. immigration detention.
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Listen 3:05Smashing Pumpkins, Philly Film Fest, and The Great Pumpkin Carve in this week’s ‘Things To Do’
Oct. 20 - Oct. 23: Made In Jersey Fest in N.J., Smashing Pumpkins in Philly, and Dracula in Delaware are among this week's highlights.
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Listen 5:3522nd Peoplehood Parade returns to West Philly with art, music, and Gritty costumes
At this Spiral Q event, it doesn’t matter what you look like or where you come from — or even if folks can’t quite pin down your origin story.
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‘A yin and yang’: Alice and John Coltrane honored with a festival at Penn Live
A week-long festival at Penn Live honors the legacy of the husband and wife team who developed spiritual jazz.
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Lightbox Film Center screens a portrait of the world in ‘32 Sounds’
Sam Green’s eccentric curiosity follows his ears around the world in the new performance documentary at the Lightbox Film Center.
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Oct. 13 - 16: Philly Bike Ride, "Alice & John: A Coltrane Festival," and "Rocky the Musical" are among this week's highlights.
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Listen 4:45‘The Wolves’ highlights ‘life, love and loss, on and off the astroturf’
"The Wolves" director, Sarah Rasmussen, says the coming of age story, in an intense 90 minutes, highlights the socially relevant issues affecting young, female athletes today.
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Listen 6:00‘2 Clocks’ disassembles toxic masculinity with humor
The new play at the Wilma Theater is enlightening, enraging, and uncomfortable. That’s the point.
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Oct. 6 - Oct.9: Kevin Hart in Philly, “Tootsie” in Delaware, and the second annual Vegan Fest in Camden, N.J. are among weekend event highlights.
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Listen 5:01Drummers play the lights inside Philly’s Icebox
There’s a moment when the percussionists “stop playing the drums and they start playing the lights” in Ezra Masch’s “Volumes” art installation.
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Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller dies at 83
Fuller’s most famous work, “A Soldier’s Play,” used a military setting in its tale of the search for the murderer of a Black sergeant on an Army base in Louisiana during WWII.
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Philadelphia Ballet breaks ground on new building, quadrupling its size
The 59-year-old dance company broke ground on a 48,000-square-foot addition, nearly quadrupling its size in a burgeoning North Broad arts district.
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Rihanna to headline the next Super Bowl halftime show
Rihanna is set to star in February’s Super Bowl halftime show.
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