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Performing Arts

Mobbluz combined jazz and samples from an MPC to rock the Clef Club of Jazz on Oct. 25, 2022. (Cory Sharber/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

4 years ago

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Izzy Sazak and Daniel Melo play Venezuelan twins about to be shipwrecked at the fictional country of Illyria. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

A 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.

4 years ago

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Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins performs at the Metro on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in Chicago. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Smashing 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.

4 years ago

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A person raises their arms as they walk forward. More people holding a sign that reads Peoplehood walk behind them.
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22nd 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.

4 years ago

A historical marker on 33rd Street identifies the home of jazz great John Coltrane, but the house itself stands vacant and neglected.
Arts & Entertainment

‘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.

4 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

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.

4 years ago

Frank Olivieri (right), owner of Pat’s King of Steaks, holds up a frozen ribeye for punches from Matthew Amira, who will portray Rocky in Walnut Street Theatre’s production of ‘’Rocky, the Musical.’’ (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Bike Ride, ‘Black Angels over Tuskegee,’ Coltrane Fest, Design Philadelphia, and ‘Rocky the Musical’ in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Oct. 13 - 16: Philly Bike Ride, "Alice & John: A Coltrane Festival," and "Rocky the Musical" are among this week's highlights.

4 years ago

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In a digital short previewing the podcast, Arthur shows his audio equipment and once again, his headphones are not on his actual ears. (PRX)
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Arts & Entertainment

Arthur the Aardvark returns with a new podcast. His headphones are still on wrong

4 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

‘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.

4 years ago

Listen 6:00
Theater artists (from left) Jess Conda, Jenn Kidwell, and Mel Krodman perform in ''Those with Two Clocks'' at the Wilma Theater. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

‘2 Clocks’ disassembles toxic masculinity with humor

The new play at the Wilma Theater is enlightening, enraging, and uncomfortable. That’s the point.

4 years ago

In this April 13, 2016 file photo, Kevin Hart addresses the audience during the Universal Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2016 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Fishtown Music & Arts Fest, Kevin Hart, ‘Tootsie’ the musical, and Harvest Weekend in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

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.

4 years ago

Listen 5:01
Audiovisual artist  Ezra Masch plays the drum set that is part of his installation at the Icebox in Kensington. The 300 LED lights that fill the space respond to the playing of the drum. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Drummers 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.

4 years ago

File photo: Playwright Charles Fuller appears at a news conference on April 14, 1982, in Philadelphia, Pa. ((AP Photo/Bill Ingraham, File))
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

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.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Ballet artistic director Angel Corella (center) and executive director Shelly Power (in pink), joined by donors and poltical figures, participate in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the company's new building on North Broad Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

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.

4 years ago

Up-close photo of Rihanna smiling.
Arts & Entertainment

Rihanna to headline the next Super Bowl halftime show

Rihanna is set to star in February’s Super Bowl halftime show.

4 years ago

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