Lewis WhittingtonTheaterPhiladelphia,
At the trendy low-scale New York eatery, owner Mike wants to make things upscale, by hiring his former boss George, a former top chef, now a middle-age divorced alcoholic fresh from drug and alcohol rehab. That is the set ...
Lewis WhittingtonDancePhiladelphia,
BalletX’s Spring Series currently in an extended run at the Wilma Theater, comprised of three distinctly different ballets that are exemplar of the company’s versatility - from the broad dance comedy of choreographer Cayetano Soto to Tommie-Waheed Evans’ meditative dance ...
A surrealistic tale of an émigré from Czechoslovakia in the 70s.
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Adapt! is a new play written and directed by Blanka Zizka, cofounder of the Wilma Theater and is having its premiere there this month. Half autobiography and surrealistic dream, the play dramatizes Zizka’s own experience as an ...
LiveConnections pairs a Cuban percussionist and a New York-based string quartet.
Lewis WhittingtonMusicPhiladelphia,
LiveConnections is a magnet music/arts collective that crosses musical boundaries and brings together artists from different genres for their concert series and continued community engagement. On February 25 at World Café Live in Philadelphia, they presented the stellar Harlem ...
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Writer Harwan is so preoccupied with his 15,000 page thesis on theater and director Robert Lepage that he barely notices the odd things that are happening in his dingy hotel room- an old phone rings without being plugged in, ...
Lewis WhittingtonEtcPhiladelphia,
Even though it’s hard to imagine that F.W. Murnau’s 1922 film, "Nosferatu" actually scared audiences, it still remains a classic of the horror genre. Most of the thrills now are in its German expressionist cinema language which ...
Lewis WhittingtonMusicPhiladelphia,
Andre Barbe’s set and costume designs for Opera Philadelphia’s current production of Puccini’s Turandot are so spectacular, that they keep giving during the entire time. The detailing and cultural template recalls the golden age of Hollywood and the impact threaten ...
Lewis WhittingtonMusicPhiladelphia,
JAZZ 100 was the Kimmel Center’s kick-off to their season’s jazz programming with the all-star line-up of players on the Merriam Theater stage in tribute to the centenary celebration of Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Mongo Santamaria- ...
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“The Secret Garden” is Frances Hodgson Burnett’s story of young heroine Anne Lennox who is orphaned in India after her parents die in a cholera epidemic and she becomes the reluctant charge of her Uncle Archie back in England. It ...
Lewis WhittingtonMusicPhiladelphia,
Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) continues to sound more at home in Verizon Hall, with every concert they play in Philly. Their May 15 tribute to the music legacy of Miles Davis ...
