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Category: Museums

Museums Previews Theater

Sherlock Holmes at Home in Northwest Philadelphia: THE VALLEY OF FEAR at the Ebeneezer Maxwell Mansion

Christopher Munden April 10, 2015 No Comments

Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective stories are well suited to stage, with strong characters, a firm setting, and delicious plot lines.

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Dance Features Museums Previews Theater

Revolutionary Theater, Dance, and Circus: NICE AND FRESH at Cliveden historic house

Christopher Munden April 2, 2015 No Comments

This month, Cliveden opens its historic grounds for a two-night engagement of new performing arts.

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The Powel House
Arts Features Museums Music Theater Visual

The Powel House: Utilizing Historic PhilaLandmarks as venues for the arts

Debra Miller March 1, 2015 No Comments

Celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2015, the Powel House is hosting an array of special events in the fine and performing arts throughout the year.

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Three Sisters by Henri Matisse. Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.
Arts Museums Theater Visual

Theater in the Galleries: Renegade and the Barnes collaborate with SUBJECT: WOMEN

Christopher Munden February 24, 2015 No Comments

The Barnes Foundation and the Renegade Company are collaborating on a series of 15 minute theatrical interpretations of the works in the Barnes collection as part of the FREE First Sunday Series.

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Dance Features Museums Theater

Putting the value on the art of performing art

Josh McIlvain May 30, 2014 No Comments

The support for performing arts organizations and artists, of all sizes, pales in comparison to the type of funding that art museums obtain. It is time to start placing more value on the “art” part of performing arts.

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Peaks and Valleys, Seraphin Gallery
Arts Museums

This Week in Clips April 21 through 27

Kat Zagaria April 23, 2014 No Comments

Article courtesy of PaperClips215. See the original article here. This Week In Clips is a weekly clip regarding the best upcoming events. If you have an event that…

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Mutter Museum Life Between
Dance Museums Previews

Life Between the Bones: The Mütter Museum presents its first-ever dance performance

Rita Algorri February 19, 2014 No Comments

The Mütter Museum, with its macabre glass cases of organs and bones, makes for an unlikely venue for a dance performance. However, this week only, choreographer Jae Hoon Lim takes on the challenge with his new work and master’s thesis, Life Between.

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Enlightenment on E Floor North by Strange Attractor Theatre. Fringe Review
Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Museums Reviews Theater

[24.2] ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH (Strange Attractor Theatre Company): Fringe review

Lev Feigin September 12, 2013 2 Comments

ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH explores the absurdities of employment in the most unlikely of places – the galleries of an art museum where four security…

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Enlightenment on E Floor North by Strange Attractor Theatre. Fringe Review
Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Museums Reviews Theater

[24.1] ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH (Strange Attractor Theatre Company): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 10, 2013 3 Comments

“You’re not here.” “Yes I am.” “But you’re not supposed to be here.” —ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH Someone once said that war is months…

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Jennifer Summerfield and Peter Zielinski as Nora and Torvald in the site-specific Victorian setting of Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion's A DOLL'S HOUSE. Photo by Kyle Cassidy.
60-Second Review Museums Reviews Theater

A DOLL’S HOUSE (Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion): 60-second review

Christopher Munden August 19, 2013 1 Comment

It’s hard to imagine a better set design for Henrik Ibsen’s devastating feminist classic than the living room of the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion Victorian House…

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Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent
Arts Features Museums Theater Visual

Played in Philadelphia (PHM): The insanity of Phillies fans

Julius Ferraro July 17, 2013 No Comments

I went to the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent last week on a tipoff from Mary Syndor. “The Played in Philadelphia gallery,” claims their website,…

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Arts Features Museums

Literary Legacy: A History of Philadelphia Writers

Christopher Munden April 21, 2013 3 Comments

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

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Arts Features Museums Previews Theater

PIFA 2013: HSP’s ArkHIVE and other theatrical highlights

Christopher Munden March 31, 2013 No Comments

“[H]alf-way up the hill, I see the Past Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,— A city in the twilight dim and vast, With…

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Nichole Canuso Dance Company APS
Dance Museums Reviews

Fringe Festival Takes Flight with Nichole Canuso Dance Company at the APS Museum

Debra Miller September 6, 2012 No Comments

RETURN RETURN DEPARTURE considers the fleeting nature of time and the human compulsion to capture it, and there can be few more poignant examples than an ephemeral dance duet at sunset, videotaped for posterity by the performers themselves.

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William Penn map of Philadelphia
Museums

Philadelphia’s Historic Districts

Smalley Bogg March 22, 2012 No Comments

Old City/Historic District America’s most historic square mile, no question. In one day you can visit all the elements that represent the birth of the Unites…

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Arts Museums Visual

Bastille to Broad Street: The French influence on Philadelphia architecture

Christopher Munden April 28, 2011 No Comments

Paris’s reputation as a a city of architectural beauty is long-held and its emblematic structures have influenced generations of Philadelphia architects and designers. This cultural…

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