Communications Strategy

38th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show

More than 195 contemporary fine craft artists from across the U.S. will exhibit and sell their work at the 38th annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, held Nov. 6 to 9 with an opening night gala on Nov. 5. Presented annually by the Museum Women’s Committee and Craft Show Committee, the event showcases the country’s finest craft artists and attracts some 18,000 visitors to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia over four days. Read more »

Bowerbird presents: Cage: Beyond Silence

In conjunction with the centenary of John Cage’s birth and the 20-year anniversary of his death, Philadelphia experimental-music presenter Bowerbird presented a major festival celebrating the acclaimed musician and theorist’s myriad contributions. Cage: Beyond Silence, presented in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, ran October 26, 2012–January 20, 2013. Read more »

Ira Brind School of Theater Arts

ON STAGE NOW

A Free Man of Color
By John Guare
Directed by Matt Pfeiffer

The Philadelphia premiere of the newest play by award-winning dramatist John Guare, set in boisterous New Orleans just prior to the Louisiana Purchase. When America acquires the Louisiana Territory in 1801, it brings American rule and racial segregation to that chaotic and colorful world, but Jacques Cornet, a flamboyant, libidinous “free man of color,” finds himself suddenly deprived of his liberty. Read more »

Extremely Public Displays of Privacy

Audiences are encouraged to stray outside the usual boundaries of theatre art in Extremely Public Displays of Privacy, a three-part performance experience from New Paradise Laboratories. The interactive cross-media, music and theatre piece begins online on September 2 as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, then travels through Center City Philadelphia and concludes with a live show as part of the Philly Fringe in September. It then continues to play through October 1.   Read more »

Chilling Reality

Chester County Historical Society presents

Chilling Reality: Chester County’s Arctic Explorers

What do huge wooden ships, jagged icebergs, fierce polar bears, and the native Inuit of Greenland have to do with Southeastern Pennsylvania? Buried deep in the Chester County Historical Society’s library, archives, and museum collections are clues to a forgotten past. Now, for the first time ever, those artifacts, documents, and books will be displayed together to tell the story - the Chilling Reality of Chester County’s Arctic Explorers. Read more »

CARRIE

Brat Productions presents CARRIE

a comedy by Erik Jackson
based on the novel by Stephen King
Directed by Michael Alltop

October 2 – November 7, 2010
Press night, Thursday, October 7 at 8 p.m.

@ Underground Arts at the Wolf Building
340 North 12th Street (at Callowhill), Philadelphia
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Temple Repertory Theater

Friends of Temple Theaters may know the sprawling Tomlinson Theater stage well, but this summer the space will be reimagined to facilitate a compelling, dramatic exchange between the actors and the audience. To achieve this, the audience will sit in a disarmingly intimate configuration—up close and personal with the stage and the actors—literally thrusting them into the action of the play. Read more »

Philadelphia Dance Projects

Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP) announces its second annual dance series, Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010, to be held February 26 – March 20. PDP Presents 2010 will showcase thematic, multigenerational programming, pairing the next wave of contemporary dance artists making their mark in 2010 with influential figures from the 1970s and 1980s Philadelphia dance scene. Read more »