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Performing Arts

Dancers with BalletX rehearse
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Arts & Entertainment

Dances with Angels and Demons of Childhood

In its spring series, Philadelphia's BalletX premieres two dances recalling childhood memories.

7 years ago

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Cancer survivor keeps the spirit of Elvis alive in Delaware

Bob Lougheed is a pancreatic cancer survivor. Now he and his band The Memphis Mafia are keeping the spirit of Elvis alive and giving back at the same time.

7 years ago

“Marie Begins” is an interactive opera with several diverging story branches and five different conclusions. (Provided)
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Arts & Entertainment

Philly composer’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure opera brings performance to your screen

“Marie Begins” is a fully sung, interaction opera in the style of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, with several diverging story branches and five different conclusions.

7 years ago

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‘Something Rotten!’ Not so, in its national tour at the Academy of Music

How was the first musical conceived? Don't look here for the answer.

7 years ago

Azuka Theatre’s production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Five kids and a crisis in Azuka Theatre’s ‘Ready Steady Yeti Go’

In a new play about middle-schoolers, a hate crime changes everything.

7 years ago

Penn Charter student Etthan Willis raises a prop gun on stage at the David L. Kurtz Center for the Performing Arts before a performance of
Arts & Entertainment

Wielding weapons on stage in ‘Les Miz’ makes students confront gun violence

William Penn Charter Schools annual musical, "Les Miserables," has extra meaning in the wake of Florida school shooting.

7 years ago

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In Curio Theatre Company's production of 's
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Arts & Entertainment

Curio Theatre’s ‘Marie Antoinette’: Is anybody in there?

In David Adjmi's play about the queen, the persona is all there, but the person's hard to find.

7 years ago

In the Inis Nua Theatre Company production
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

‘Love, Lies and Taxidermy’ plus fantasy (sort of) from Inis Nua Theatre Company

A boy, a girl, a breathless narrative.

7 years ago

Lisa VillaMil in Hedgerow Theatre Company's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Turning on the chills in ‘Wait Until Dark’ at Hedgerow Theatre

A solid production of a thriller that keeps upping the tension.

7 years ago

Delaware Theatre Company's 2018 production of Heisenberg. By Simon Stephens, Directed by Matt Pfeiffer. (Matt Urban/Mobius New Media)
Arts & Entertainment

Delaware Theatre’s ‘Heisenberg’ explores the uncertainty of love

You don’t have to have a Ph.D. in physics to enjoy Simon Stephens’ "Heisenberg" now onstage at the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington.

7 years ago

Ben Dibble and Krissy Fraelich as husband and wife in Media Theatre's production of the musical
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Arts & Entertainment

Unleashing the power of ‘Next to Normal’ at Media Theatre

The cast nails this groundbreaking musical about the fallout from mental illness.

7 years ago

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Community

NewsWorks Tonight, February 14, 2018

As Pennsylvania struggles under court order to redraw its Congressional map, a group of middle schoolers in suburban Philadelphia give i ...

Air Date: February 14, 2018

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Community

NewsWorks Tonight, February 13, 2018

Pennsylvania Governor Wolf rejects the first proposal for a new state congressional map. The effect of the opioid crisis is seen in the l ...

Air Date: February 13, 2018

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In The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium production of
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Arts & Entertainment

A lovesick prince and his kooky aunt in ‘Time Remembered’ from the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium

Jean Anouilh's play is partly absurd and here, skillfully produced.

7 years ago

Fred Brown and Martha Stuckey in Almanac Dance Circus Theatre's
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In Almanac Dance Circus Theatre’s ‘The Fleecing,’ the audience plays along

A mansion, a goofy cult, and the ascension of a new leader.

7 years ago

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