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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Performing Arts

Festival 2021
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Radiant return for Feastival, Philly’s renowned food and dance fundraiser for FringeArts

Here’s everything that went down at the Budd Plant party.

4 years ago

Cast members (from right) Azzari Myers, Eva Vanterpool, Carmi Jackson, and Jamall Phillips rehearse ''Town Hall: Resolution 50'' in Camden’s Northgate Park. The play about environmental racism in Camden will be performed this Saturday, in the park
Arts & Entertainment

Camden teens take on environmental racism in a new play

The play, called “Town Hall: Resolution 50,” posits that the reason Camden has so many infrastructure and environmental problems is because Camden is predominately Black.

4 years ago

Ronen Koresh, Artistic Director of Koresh Dance Company in Philadelphia.
Arts & Entertainment

Dance company returns to the stage for first time since 2020 with performance about hope

Koresh Dance Company returns for the first time since 2020, with a new performance of TikVAH.

4 years ago

Listen 6:03
Jered McLenigan, Lindsay Smiling, and Suli Holum perform in
Arts & Entertainment

In fits and starts, live shows are coming back to Philly theaters

Theater companies and audiences face a bumpy return to in-person shows.

4 years ago

Listen 3:09
Christian McBride performs at George Wein's Carefusion Newport Jazz 55 in Newport, R.I. on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Artists at home in Philly and Jersey, Christian McBride’s ‘New Jawn,’ Low Cut Connie, and ‘Boo at the Zoo’ in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Oct. 14 - Oct. 17: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

4 years ago

Listen 5:03
File photo of a Summer Stage performance. (Summer Stage)
Arts & Entertainment

Summer Stage doesn’t need saving, Upper Darby organizers say, despite uproar on social media

The celebrated youth theater program is at the center of a heated dispute between local government and a nonprofit entity that wants to ‘adopt’ it.

4 years ago

Ta'Rea Campbell is pictured in costume as Angelica Schuyler
Arts & Entertainment
6abc

Philly native, CAPA grad starring in ‘Hamilton’ at Academy of Music

The Kimmel Cultural Campus is kicking off its comeback season with "Hamilton" on Oct. 20. The show runs through Nov. 28.

4 years ago

KRS-One performs at the Yo! MTV Raps: 30TH Anniversary Experience at the Barclays Center on Friday, June 1, 2018, in New York
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Design Philadelphia, KRS One, Night of Lights, and Monster drinks in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Oct. 7 - Oct. 10: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

4 years ago

Listen 4:36
A shortage of school bus drivers in some communities across the country is causing headaches for school districts this fall. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 10/4/21

Is the school bus driver shortage getting any better? With long wait times for testing and licenses, and more families driving kids to school every day - experts hope it is.

Air Date: October 4, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Chris Stapleton performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Friday, May 3, 2019, in New Orleans
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Delco Arts week, Amblerfest, rockin’ with ‘Beehive,’ history redux in Germantown, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Sep. 30 - Oct. 3: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.

4 years ago

Listen 4:42
Members of the Esperanza Academy Dance Ensemble will appear at the Kimmel Center’s Arts Launch 2021 festival, performing traditional Puerto Rican dance with modern interpretations
Arts & Entertainment

Kimmel Center invites new friends to its reopening party

After 18 months of being closed to audiences, the Kimmel Center invites arts groups from across Philadelphia to its free Arts Launch festival.

4 years ago

Listen 1:26
After being closed for 18 months for the pandemic, the Steel River Playhouse will welcome audiences back into it main stage auditorium during Arts Montco Week, for a series of three one-man performances
Arts & Entertainment

Montco launches its first county-wide Arts Week

Arts venues have a $100M impact on Montco’s economy. Arts Week highlights the large and small spots reopening from the pandemic.

4 years ago

Listen 1:30
Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald
Arts & Entertainment

Tony Awards tap Philly native Leslie Odom Jr. to host alongside Audra McDonald

The long-delayed Tony Awards have landed two impressive master of ceremonies — Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald.

4 years ago

Neighbors in the Crossfire
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 9/13/21

Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson on grants going to community organizations throughout Philadelphia to help combat gun violence. And, the Fringe Festival turns 25.

Air Date: September 13, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:01
Met Opera in NYC
Arts & Entertainment

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.

4 years ago

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