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The Philadelphia Film Society announced the award winners for the 32nd Philadelphia Film Festival after the local premiere of Sly (a documentary on the career…
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Is it possible for a composer to be too German? Sure, the deeply problematic Wagner has long cornered the market on gratuitous Teutonic mythmaking, but it's his…
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Alexander Payne, purveyor of fine vibes, might be softening up.
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Fingernails beckons anyone who has ever claimed love is torture and calls their bluff.
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This is vintage Sondheim, the unimaginable flop now on Broadway again, restored to its dazzling, heart-wrenching brilliance. Merrily We Roll Along has been called his most personal,……
Quintessence Theater's founding artistic director Alex Burns, has written a new translation from the original French
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Ossie Davis's brilliant and hilarious play is part vaudeville, part sermon. And if preaching is theater, theater is preaching. And the lesson is that "faith…
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The wall of the F. Otto Haas Stage features pictures of targets and X's for murdered presidents. Starting with John Wilkes Booth's killing of Abraham…
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Lucas Pastrana is preparing to make his Walnut Street Theatre debut in Elvis- A Musical Revolution. The actor, who is playing the role of Elvis,…
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Before he became a celebrated playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelan was a poor thing in a touring shoestring theater company. Although he had wanted to be a…
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Beatrice Jona Affron is celebrating her 30th year with the Philadelphia Ballet (formerly Pennsylvania Ballet.) The music director and conductor joined the company in 1993…
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The piece lands in the not-so-distant future, when humans have evolved with their technology to become one. This is a nonlinear journey through the reimagined…
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Natalie Shaw grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and started her musical theatre training at an early age. After finishing her degree at the University…
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Presenter Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts series brings boundary breaking choreographer Silvana Cardell brings Disposable Bodies for its debut at the Wilma Theater October 6-8.…
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Director Joanna Settle wants you to know that 10 Days in a Madhouse is not just an opera. It is an "announcement … almost a…
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Guests are invited to join a band of currency-crazed visual and performing artists
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The earth isn't dying. People are killing the earth. And those people have names and addresses. It's time we pay them a visit. Join a…
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Don't miss this honky tonk hoedown for a guaranteed rootin', tootin' good time!
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A new Passover Seder as designed by the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara. Instead of telling the Passover story, this ritual commemorates the time that all…
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An exploration of the costs of total war and the minds of its apologists.
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Each night, a freshly generated play centers upon a single unanswerable question: Did this widower see a ghost or is he going mad?
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BLACK WOOD will once again show fans the darker side of Gunnar Montana Productions, with an immersive theater experience that has it all " witches,…
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100 miles of adventure and discovery around the city's edge. Walk Around Philadelphia is a journey in segments that connect people to their own bodies,…
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A celebration of play, possibility, and the tenderness of being human. Six dance artists displace gravity to co-create new worlds with fantastical possibilities. Step into Falling…
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Dating is hard " especially as a newly human, newly single mermaid. This original and irreverent modern day fairy-tale, straight from the clubs of Berlin, features six…
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