
Performing Arts
‘Tape Riot’: A theater piece that plays off the city’s built environment
A group of European artists drop into town to reimagine the city’s built environment — using masking tape and modern dance — in the middle of an evening commute
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Listen 2:44Your guide to the week in arts and culture, June 1 – 7, 2018
We've got plenty of events for you to get excited about, whether you're an avant-garde theater buff, a beer nerd, or an avid birder.
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Listen 3:35With an eclectic mix of groundbreaking performances, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts offers something for everyone.
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The unleashed power of a personal story: ‘Fun Home’ at Arden Theatre Company
A daughter discovers her gay self, and then discovers her father's.
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Listen 3:45‘Mamma Mia!’, still rocking the jukebox at Walnut Street Theatre
The show that spurred a spate of live jukebox musicals remains a standout.
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Narnia’s latest adaptation: Sign language
A Germantown school is taking a classic work and reimagining it for a deaf audience.
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The endless facets of ‘A People’
L.M. Feldman's new play is a sweeping exploration of Jewish identity.
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Gospel according to Oedipus: Greek myth resounds in African-American church
The black churches of Coatesville show Philadelphia how it's done in "Gospel at Colonus."
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NewsWorks Tonight, May 18, 2018
In Tuesday’s primary, a record number of women won nominations to represent Pennsylvania in Congress. The Gallup Poll’s Frank ...
Air Date: May 18, 2018
Listen 0:00This fleeting Philly theater company will dissolve on purpose after its seventh play
Orbiter 3, a collective of playwrights designed to produce seven new plays, did what it set out to do. It will dissolve after it's final production, 'A People.'
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Delaware Symphony performs Mahler’s ‘underdog’ work that inspired its future director
Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s director David Amado will lead the group in its first ever performance of Gustav Mahler’s “Seventh Symphony,” which fascinated him as a child.
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Revel in the crowning of Philly’s next (drag) king – May 19, 2018
If 90 minutes a week of 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' is just not cutting it for you, head to the Gayborhood this weekend to see a homegrown Philly drag competition crown its new king.
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Painted Bride says farewell to iconic building in Old City
The Painted Bride, an Old City icon in Philadelphia, plans to sell its building. Philadelphia arts leaders are crying foul.
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Take in an Afrofuturist sermon at ‘Stellar Masses’ – May 16, 2018
Discover the interstellar potential of spoken word.
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Watch: Philly burlesque performers pay homage to ‘Black Panther’
A troupe of all-black burlesque performers from Philadelphia took a packed room upstairs at the Trocadero Theatre to Wakanda in a show inspired by "Black Panther."
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