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By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company Every summer, following our mainstage season, Philadelphia Theatre Company holds a special event to showcase something unexpected and exciting for the heat-weary city. Last season, we hosted writer/comedian, Colin Quinn, with his smash hit, Long Story Short. But, this year, we decided to try a brand new direction for our [...]
New Jersey pays a visit to Philadelphia by way of the Dalet Gallery in Old City. Currently on exhibit is the show “Made in Princeton,” co-curated by Kate Somers and Irena Gobernik, which presents two artist groups that reside in Princeton, New Jersey: the Princeton Artists Alliance and the Princeton Photography Club. The show itself ranges [...]
Philadelphia artist Darla Jackson was awarded $20,000 as part of the 2011 Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge to create a sculpture gym designed to help Philly sculptors by granting them access to heavy-duty tools, storage space and one-on-one help. Jackson & the gym are scoring a bit of media attention of late, appearing on WHYY/Newsworks and 6ABC. [...]
In the heart of Kensington stands a five-story former paper mill turned arts building named the Papermill Community of Artists. When it was purchased three years ago by Director Karyn Vetter, the building was in some degree of disrepair, its former napkin- and tablecloth-producing facilities full of garbage and debris, and lacking utilities. Since then, the [...]
By Laura McPhail, Mann Center for the Performing Arts Innovative programming is the name of the game at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts this summer. In an effort to reach out to new audiences while continuing to entertain the loyal Mann attendees, the popular music venue brought three big talents to perform with the [...]
At the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (and spilling into the adjacent hallways of the Crane Arts building) is the massive sampling platter that is the 3rd Annual Photography exhibition. The exhibit showcases a wide variety of contemporary photography in many different forms. Present in the show are abstractions, portraits, manipulated images and documentary photos, to [...]
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education is one of the first urban environmental education centers in the country. Founded in 1965 by sisters Eleanor Houston Smith and Margaret Houston Meigs from former family land in the Roxborough area of Philadelphia, the Schuylkill Center provides an island of green and accessible ecology programs to the city [...]
By Linda Harris, Center City District Philadelphia Janet Echelman determined to create moving columns of atomized water for her public sculpture Pulse after delving into the history of Philadelphia’s Centre Square, one of William Penn’s original five squares. Echelman’s unique work, to be showcased in the $50 million transformation of Dilworth Plaza adjacent to City [...]
William Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” premiered in the Bowl at Clark Park on Wednesday July 25th to a crowded hillside of attendees. Families on blankets, couples, picnickers and dogs alike came out to catch the seventh summer of Shakespeare in Clark Park, a free outdoor theater production in West Philadelphia. The only one [...]
North Philadelphia’s quintessential “undefined exhibition space” Little Berlin has been busy breaking ground on their newest project, the Little Berlin Fairgrounds, located just adjacent to their Viking Mill building in East Kensington. The Fairgrounds are one of the Knight Arts Challenge 2012 winners, and the Berliners are currently working to match the grant. Since its [...]
