Performing Arts
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.
5 years ago
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
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
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 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
Listen 1:43Play 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.
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Listen 1:55Actor Stephen Eng, who portrays Gordon Hirabayashi in the one-person show "Hold These Truths," writes about settling into the role.
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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.
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Listen 1:49Philly 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
Listen 6:24Performance 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.
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Listen 4:51UArts 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.
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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
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.
5 years ago
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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