
Performing Arts
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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
Listen 22:44At the Pa. Shakespeare Festival, ‘All’s Well’ ends that way
The festival produces the play the way Shakespeare would have, from what we know today.
7 years ago
Listen 3:13The Bard goes glam in Clark Park’s ‘Twelfth Night’
Shakespeare in Philadelphia's Clark Park backs up "Twelfth Night" with a glam-rock band of kids from the neighborhood.
7 years ago
Philly hospitality industry doesn’t want Jay-Z’s MIA to go MIA
Mayors get criticized all the time, but it’s not every day the critic is a billionaire rap mogul.
7 years ago
NewsWorks Tonight, July 20, 2018
New Jersey snuffs out cigarette smoking on its beaches. Fred Korematsu’s daughter speaks to his legacy in Valley Forge. A small b ...
Air Date: July 20, 2018
Listen 22:29Peek behind the curtain at 6 new plays in progress
For the theater-loving public, PlayPenn’s annual conference, where new plays are workshopped, offers a peek behind the curtain.
7 years ago
All the world’s a stage: Five places to see Shakespeare in the open air
This summer, catch an al fresco production of a Shakespeare play.
7 years ago
Philly’s Bastille Day tradition goes out with a bang
For nearly a quarter century Terry McNally has played Marie Antoinette for Philadelphia's satirical Bastille Day celebration in the city's Fairmount section.
7 years ago
A delightful ‘Shakespeare in Love’ from the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
The fictional Oscar-winning film about Shakespeare, his writer's block and the way he's smitten by a London woman becomes a stage play that he could have written.
7 years ago