Performing Arts
Philly Fringe reviews: ‘The Accountant’ and ‘Lay Me Down Softly’
A creation curated by the Fringe Festival, plus an Irish play about boxing.
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Philadelphia Fringe Festival takes audiences to interesting spaces
Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Nick Stuccio, president & producing director of the FringeArts about this year's festival.
6 years ago
Listen 5:18In Act II Playhouse’s ‘Biloxi Blues,’ a production that becomes a tribute
Days after Neil Simon died, the theater in Ambler opened his Tony-award winning show.
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Listen 3:46Time for some boundary-pushing (and lots of dance) during Philly Fringe Festival 2018
For 18 days, the news arts season begins with another round of the unforeseen
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Listen 5:29Kids go ham for ‘Hamilton’ at Music Theatre Philly camp
A 'Hamilton' musical theater summer camp puts kids in the room where it happens.
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Neil Simon, preeminent and prolific playwright and screenwriter, has died at 91
Neil Simon, the enormously productive comic playwright who often adapted his work into screenplays, died on early Sunday morning.
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Nominations were announced Monday for the awards for excellence in Philadelphia-area professional theater.
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Till victory is won: the staying power of ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a song many African-Americans know from school or church. You may know it from one of a few landmark performances.
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Addressing oversight, Philly Orchestra to present work by women composers
The Philadelphia Orchestra will bring in more women composers next season, including a workshop of six new pieces.
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This circus travels on its stomach, but lightly
A team of international chefs working in a portable kitchen keeps Cirque du Soleil performers happy and fit.
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Four African-American composers go to church with Bernstein’s ‘Mass’
A Baptist church in West Philadelphia will premiere new music by four African-American composers working in the vein of Leonard Bernstein.
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After criticism, Philadelphia Orchestra adds female composers to its new season
The orchestra announced that two pieces by female composers would be added to the lineup.
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Burning up ’42nd Street’ with tap shoes, at Bucks County Playhouse
They're dancing as fast as they can, then even faster.
7 years ago
NewsWorks Tonight, July 30, 2018
Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s Attorneys General try to block 3-D guns from being downloaded in their states. Shanita Hubbard discus ...
Air Date: July 30, 2018
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