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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Performing Arts

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From Snacks to a FEAST: a 12-hour cabaret marathon is coming to your screen

FEAST brings dozens of performers from around the world into a 12-hour online event.

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Ana Mosquera
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Cherry Street Pier opens its largest public art exhibition since pandemic began

An exhibition of artwork by recent MFA graduates experiments with sound, video, performance, and sculpture to engage the public during a pandemic.

5 years ago

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Broadway shutdown due to virus extended again until May 30

Producers, citing health and city authorities, previously extended the shutdown to June 7, then again to Sept. 6 and again to Jan. 3.

5 years ago

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Theatre Horizon casting for households to create virtual pandemic performances

With Theatre Horizon’s Norristown stage dark, the company’s latest idea for pandemic-era entertainment: What if the audiences did the performing?

5 years ago

Opera Philadelphia
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Opera Philadelphia challenges four composers to write short films

For its new digital streaming channel, Opera Philadelphia needs music conceived for the camera. It has commissioned new music from four composers.

5 years ago

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Wilma Theater
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Play about Belarus uprising on stage in Philly, and around the world

The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia joins dozens of companies around the world in staging a new play from Belarus written during the protests.

5 years ago

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Steven Eng as Gordon Hirabayashi in HOLD THESE TRUTHS
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My journey bringing Gordon Hirabayashi to life in a solo play inspired by the WWII internment opponent

Actor Stephen Eng, who portrays Gordon Hirabayashi in the one-person show "Hold These Truths," writes about settling into the role.

5 years ago

University of the Arts seniors Andrew Malabunga and Miranda Pilato rehearse
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Hard-hat harmonies: Music returns to (and above) the Avenue of the Arts

With its theaters closed for six months and counting, the avenue will ring out with music again as performers perch high up in a half-finished building.

5 years ago

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Philly Fringe Fest pivots to 4-week digital arts showcase

Morning Edition Host Jennifer Lynn interviews Nick Stuccio, president and producing director of FringeArts, about taking the Fringe Festival virtual this year.

5 years ago

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Performance art during a pandemic: Fringe Fest takes the stage online

The annual Philly Fringe Festival of alternative and avant-garde performance art begins this week, although in somewhat reduced fashion due to the coronavirus pandemic.

5 years ago

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Philadelphia University of the Arts
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UArts faculty announce intention to form a labor union

If the unionization effort is successful, it will include both adjunct and full-time faculty across all departments of UArts, estimated to be about 500 people.

5 years ago

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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.

5 years ago

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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.

5 years ago

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Christopher Jackson
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Kimmel 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.

5 years ago

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Maori Karmael Holmes, founder and executive director of BlackStar Film Festival
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BlackStar 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.

5 years ago

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