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Figo, the new restaurant in Northern Liberties, is a smash hit
For many Philadelphians, Northern Liberties may as well be The Yukon. If you share this belief, you will miss extraordinary experiences.
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Jump, Darling, opens the qFlix Film Festival
Jump, Darling, is a 2021 film by Canadian director Phil Connell which was the opening night feature of qFlix Philadelphia on Sunday.
BalletX Presents Sunset, o639 Hours at The Suzanne Roberts Theatre
On September 9, BalletX presented choreographer Matthew Neenan’s full-evening work from 2014, Sunset, o639 Hours, at The Suzanne Roberts Theatre.
Check Out On-line performances by BalletX at Guggenheim Works and Process
On June 14, 2020, BalletX partnered with Works and Process at the Guggenheim to co-present four world premieres on-line by choreographers Hope Boykin, Caili Quan, Penny Saunders, and Rena Butler.
Opera Philadelphia’s presentation of the Verdi Requiem
On Sunday afternoon, February 2, 2020, Opera Philadelphia presented the second and last performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem. Opera Philadelphia last performed Verdi’s Requiem in 1986. Although there have been many changes over 34 years, 15 orchestra members and one chorister remained to perform it again. There were two performances at Philadelphia’s jewel of an…
A witty, enjoyable Albert Herring from Curtis Opera Theatre
Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera Albert Herring was given a fine production by Curtis Opera Theatre on March 5, 2020, at the lovely, intimate Perelman Theater Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (1913-1976), was an English composer, conductor, and musician who dominated classical music for most of the 20th century. Among his many famous works are Peter…
This Hello Dolly is exciting, beautiful, and not to be missed
Do you love musicals, great dancing, a compelling story, and happy endings? Then get yourself and a few friends, neighbors, and polyamorous lovers to Philadelphia’s Academy of Music to see this award-winning Broadway hit, the amazing Hello Dolly! Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to have seen The Matchmaker, a 1958 film with screenplay by Thornton…
Effervescent Beethoven piano trios sparkled on a dark and stormy evening in Princeton
Princeton University Concerts presented a stellar trio of performers in a Beethoven Program on February 6. Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Alexander Melnikov undertook the “Kakadu” Variations, Op. 121a in G Major, the Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70, No.2, and the Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, the “Archduke.” At 7:00PM, a Warm Up…
Shrek The Musical is a fabulous, fun fable for the whole family
Shrek The Musical is now playing at Philadelphia’s historic Walnut Street Theatre until January 5, 2020.
Broadway’s smash musical Mean Girls now at the Academy of Music
Nine-time Emmy Award winner Tina Fey brings her hit Broadway musical Mean Girls to the Academy of Music now until December 1, 2019. This national touring production of Mean Girls is part of the Kimmel Center’s Broadway Philadelphia season.