Performing Arts
Actor Stephen Eng, who portrays Gordon Hirabayashi in the one-person show "Hold These Truths," writes about settling into the role.
6 years ago
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.
6 years ago
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.
6 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.
6 years ago
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.
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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.
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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.
6 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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Is singing together safe in the era of coronavirus? Not really, experts say
Schools, faith and community groups as well as professional musicians are all struggling with the risks of singing. Experts present the most recent research and offer tips.
6 years ago
As fall theater season collapses, Opera Philadelphia pivots to film
Instead of producing opera for the stage, the company will turn operas into original films and release them on the company’s own online video channel.
6 years ago
Listen 1:29‘It’s the new normal’: Drive-in concertgoers embrace a new summer venue
Drive-ins are the socially distant live music venues of the summer of 2020. “I don’t ever want it to stop,” said one concertgoer at People’s Light in Malvern.
6 years ago
Listen 1:50Out of work for months, Philly event staff rally for more federal aid
“The live event industry was hit first, it was hit hardest, and will be the last to return,” said the head of the stagehands’ union.
6 years ago
With the stage off limits, Wilma Theater tries something new: a radio play
The Wilma Theater will present its final production the 2019-20 season, the Afrofuturist work “Is God Is,” as a radio play — something it’s never done before.
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Founding director of Philly theater group resigns after racism, harassment allegations
Facing allegations of racism and sexual harassment within his organization, PlayPenn’s founding director Paul Meshejian has resigned.
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