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Struggling with a painful story – and adding some glam
“Our task was to tackle the layered history of space,” Garza said, “and because it was such an underutilized space, to revitalize it as an asset to the community.”The house was in a sorry state when the gay advocacy group BIPOC arrived.…
Programming and recommendations for the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
The Philly theater community is in desperate need of performing and their excitement for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival is palpable. Over 1,000 performances are scheduled for 170 shows in more than 70 locations across the region from…
ORFEO ED EURIDICE / ZANETTO, Arcole Exterior
Orfeo succumbs to the temptation and turns to kiss his wife, Euridice, and so the gods demand their price for his failure to keep his end of the bargain, as she dies and he despairs.Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo and Euridice is a…
Archer Season 12 Premiere Review – “Identity Crisis” and “Lowjacked”
Archer Season 12 premieres Wednesday, August 25 at 10 p.m. ET / PT on FXX and is available the next day on FX on Hulu.In Archer's Season 12 premiere, “Identity Crisis,” a pair of over-cheerful marketers inform the main cast of dysfunctional…
Massive mythology and sci-fi action in JACIN AND THE OLYMPIANS
From writer Shayne Berryhill (Chance Fortune and the Outlaws) and artist Mattia Monaco, and co-created by Alex Ogle and colorist Maja Opac, is a user-friendly Kickstarter graphic novel for all audiences of massive proportions. Jacin and the…
Trinity Church Wall Street announces 2021-22 season
Trinity Church Wall Street has announced its 2021-22 season.
The first will be "Vigil Psalms: A Service of Prayer, Readings & Music", conducted by Julian Wachner and featuring the Trinity Wall Street Choir.
Date of…
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021 gives adversity two fingers with striking lineup
Who would have thought a year ago that we would now be in the middle of a second round of annual art festivals severely curtailed by Covid. There was a quiet, unknown for this time of year, in the…
The performing careers of Dover, NH’s John Boyle, and Charles E. Cronin
DOVER - There was a different kind of show presented at the Opera, an almost annual tradition which, after 1936, continued in the current auditorium of the Town Hall. It was the “Irish” show, sponsored by the Old Order Hibernian Female…
‘Blackest Battle’, an innovative hip-hop musical
In the past, summer in Kennedy Center meant a big national musical tour on Broadway or two. Slipping into the cool dark red opera house for a show during the hot summer days is a treat I've enjoyed since I was a kid.
But because of the…