
Performing Arts
Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Fly Eagles Fly,’ ‘Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn’ and ‘Do You Want a Cookie?’
A spoof on loving the Birds, an acrobatic display and a spotlight on cabaret.
7 years ago
Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Kill Move Paradise’ and ‘Stifters Dinge’
A brilliantly conceived new play and a sensory experience.
7 years ago
Listen 2:50A ‘Super Grand’ flash mob set to take over Philly art museum steps
Le Super Grand Continental - a massive dance by non-professionals - will be performed this weekend on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
7 years ago
Philly Fringe reviews: ‘The Accountant’ and ‘Lay Me Down Softly’
A creation curated by the Fringe Festival, plus an Irish play about boxing.
7 years ago
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.
7 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
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
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