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Performing Arts

In Wilma Theater's production of
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Kill Move Paradise’ and ‘Stifters Dinge’

A brilliantly conceived new play and a sensory experience.

7 years ago

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Volunteer dancers rehearse for their perfomance of
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A ‘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

Trey Lyford in
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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

 Nick Stuccio is president and producing director of Fringe Arts. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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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.

7 years ago

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DJ Gleason and the ensemble in the Act II Playhouse production of
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In 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.

7 years ago

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The ensemble in French choreographer Boris Charmatz's
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Arts & Entertainment

Time 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

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Young students work on a dance number during Hamilton Camp at Music Theatre Philly.
Arts & Entertainment

Kids 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

Playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, photographed here in September 1980, wrote over 50 works for theater and screen. (AP)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

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.

7 years ago

Jamie Bernstein watches her father, Leonard Bernstein, conduct the New York Philharmonic at a rehearsal for one of his Young People's Concerts, circa fall 1962. (Bob Serating /New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives)
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Arts & Entertainment

Life with Leonard Bernstein

7 years ago

Arden Theatre Company's production of the musical
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Arts & Entertainment

People’s Light leads in Barrymore Award nominations; Arden’s ‘Fun Home’ gets most nominations of any show

Nominations were announced Monday for the awards for excellence in Philadelphia-area professional theater.

7 years ago

Beyoncé performed
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Arts & Entertainment

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

The Philadelphia Orchestra will hold a workshop featuring the music of six women composers. 
Top row:  Eötvös, Hilary Purrington,  Xi Wang. Bottom row: Robin Holcomb, Chen-Hui Jen, and Nina C. Young. (Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Orchestra)
Arts & Entertainment

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

Heart shaped petal sits atop a dessert served at the restaurant for the cast and crew of Cirque Du Soleil's VOLTA, in Oaks, Pa., on Aug. 8, 2018.
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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.

7 years ago

Nolan Williams Jr. is the curator of the Philadelphia Community Mass. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

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

The Philadelphia Orchestra is adding music by Anna Clyne to its upcoming season. (Javier Oddo/Boosey & Hawks)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

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

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