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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This month, Cliveden opens its historic grounds for a two-night engagement of new performing arts.
View More Revolutionary Theater, Dance, and Circus: NICE AND FRESH at Cliveden historic house
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.
View More The Powel House: Utilizing Historic PhilaLandmarks as venues for the arts
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.
View More Theater in the Galleries: Renegade and the Barnes collaborate with SUBJECT: WOMEN
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.
View More Putting the value on the art of performing art
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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.
View More Life Between the Bones: The Mütter Museum presents its first-ever dance performance
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…
View More [24.2] ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH (Strange Attractor Theatre Company): Fringe review
“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…
View More [24.1] ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH (Strange Attractor Theatre Company): Fringe review
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…
View More A DOLL’S HOUSE (Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion): 60-second review
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,…
View More Played in Philadelphia (PHM): The insanity of Phillies fans
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.
View More Literary Legacy: A History of Philadelphia Writers
“[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…
View More PIFA 2013: HSP’s ArkHIVE and other theatrical highlights
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.
View More Fringe Festival Takes Flight with Nichole Canuso Dance Company at the APS Museum
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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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…
View More Bastille to Broad Street: The French influence on Philadelphia architecture