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Since 2001, the Mark Morris Dance Group has been working with people with Parkinson’s, designing dance classes around their needs and abilities. (Hilary Schwab)
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Choreographer Mark Morris bringing dance benefits to people living with Parkinson’s

After a 14-year hiatus, Mark Morris returns to Philadelphia as artist-in-residence.

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Philly Theatre Week includes the Walnut Street Theatre's production of
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Curtain rises on Philly Theatre Week

Philly Theatre Week launches as theater companies ready new productions for the second half of the season.

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NewsWorks Tonight, February 9, 2018

The City of Philadelphia debriefs after Thursday’s Eagles celebrations. Frank Newport, editor-in-chief at the Gallup Poll, explains ...

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Charlotte Northeast in Theatre Horizon's production of
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Fighting the good fights with ‘The Revolutionists’

Four women take the French Revolution into their own hands.

7 years ago

Friedrich Heinrich Kern plays a version of the glass harmonica called the verrophone for Opera Philadelphia's production of
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Franklin’s glass harmonica sounds again in Philly production of ‘Written on Skin’

Opera Philadelphia presents 'Written on Skin,' featuring Ben Franklin's novel glass instrument.

7 years ago

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In Quintessence Theatre Group's production of
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‘Waiting for Godot,’ and finding first-rate talents (Quintessence Theatre Group)

Two veteran locally-based actors excel in Samuel Beckett's classic.

7 years ago

Melanie Julian as Lydie Breeze, and David Girard in Ego Po's production of
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Arts & Entertainment

‘Cold Harbor,’ the robust first part of a trilogy (Ego Po Classic Theater)

A bold Civil War play from a brave theater company.

7 years ago

Actor Ed Asner takes the stage at Congregation Rodelph Shalom for a run-through of
Arts & Entertainment

Ed Asner brings play about Holocaust controversy to Philly

Ed Asner appeared in "The Soap Myth," a play about an allegation against the Nazis.

7 years ago

In Theatre Exile's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

‘Really.’ Really? (Theatre Exile)

Silly me, I thought I was going to the theater to see a play. I did go to the theater — Theatre Exile. But there was no play. There was, instead, something called “Really."

7 years ago

The cast of EgoPo Classic Theater's Lydie Breeze Trilogy Part One.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Small Philly theater company takes on big play cycle

Where no theater has gone before: EgoPo takes on John Guare's 'Lydie Breeze' trilogy.

7 years ago

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Author and his family taking in
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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

Shapiro on Theater
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Pawing our way through ‘Tiger Style!’ (Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists)

Oh, the pain of diligence and excelling...

7 years ago

Eleanor Handley appears as the wounded photographer in Bristol Riverside Theatre's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Moving time along in ‘Time Stands Still’ (Bristol Riverside Theatre)

A war photographer comes home. But where is home?

7 years ago

The 24-hour performance,
Arts & Entertainment

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.

7 years ago

Matthew Lewandowski stands in the Philadelphia Scenic Works workshop where set builders from three different small theater groups find space to work at the same time.
Arts & Entertainment

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.

7 years ago

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