
Performing Arts
Making a theatrical investment in childhood
Bill Harley says it best on his seminal album of stories and songs, “The Town Around The Bend”. The Grammy Award winner remarks that ...
7 years ago
Pawing our way through ‘Tiger Style!’ (Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists)
Oh, the pain of diligence and excelling...
7 years ago
Moving time along in ‘Time Stands Still’ (Bristol Riverside Theatre)
A war photographer comes home. But where is home?
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Philadelphia arts festival to feature 24-hour musical history of U.S.
The Kimmel Center has announced most of the schedule of this summer's Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
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Philly theaters form set-building company, hope to help stage redevelopment
A handful of small theater companies in Philadelphia have formed a collaborative set-building company.
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In ‘The Humans,’ a snapshot of what makes a family (Walnut Street Theatre)
The Blake family meets for Thanksgiving dinner. And you know what that can be like.
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Listen 2:33‘Sensitive Guys’ a comedy about no laughing matter
A Philadelphia theater company is premiering a new play this week, dealing with sexual assault on a college campus.
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Listen 2:54Going nuclear, in ‘Copenhagen’ (Lantern Theater Company)
Two atomic scientists — one from Germany and the other from occupied Denmark — meet quietly during World War II. What about?
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Ahead of retrial, Bill Cosby performs in Germantown
Bill Cosby delivered a surprise performance at a Germantown jazz club Monday night, the first time Cosby has performed publicly since 2015.
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Rethinking life inside ‘A Doll’s House’
Ibsen's characters, warring again in another version of the play.
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Listen 2:47‘Passing Strange,’ and grandly
The Wilma Theater production takes a musical to a new level.
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Listen 3:00Bring out those oldies: ‘A Few of Our Favorite Things’ (Act II Playhouse and 1812 Productions)
Comedy bits from the past, offered by two artistic directors who specialize in having fun.
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The doll and the denial: ‘All the Dead Biddles’ (Underbite Theatre Co. and Plays & Players)
A mother has a most unusual way of grieving for her dead son.
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Phoenix Best, straight to Broadway and now playing her home town
The actress, from Philadelphia's Mt. Airy, graduated from DeSales University and became a Broadway understudy only a month after arriving in New York.
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Listen 4:38NewsWorks Tonight, January 10, 2018
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf declares a state of emergency on opioids. The growing crisis is affecting organ donation programs. Philade ...
Air Date: January 10, 2018
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