Arts & Culture10,000 Philadelphians gathered to bid a tearful Wanamaker Organ farewell. They’ll need to fight for its return.You walk into the store to buy boots and walk out lifted up by Handel, Sibelius, or Sir Arthur Sullivan. That’s art serving its highest purpose.
Arts & Culture10,000 Philadelphians gathered to bid a tearful Wanamaker Organ farewell. They’ll need to fight for its return.You walk into the store to buy boots and walk out lifted up by Handel, Sibelius, or Sir Arthur Sullivan. That’s art serving its highest purpose.
Arts & CultureThe Eagles championship season is getting a Philadelphia Orchestra soundtrack at the Mann this summer
Arts & CultureThe Eagles championship season is getting a Philadelphia Orchestra soundtrack at the Mann this summer
PhiladelphiaAn emotional, musical end to Center City Macy’s concluded with patrons confused over locked exitsThose who attended the last in a daylong series of organ recitals Saturday night found the store's main exits on Market and Chestnut Streets locked. Then came an announcement to use Juniper Street.
PhiladelphiaAn emotional, musical end to Center City Macy’s concluded with patrons confused over locked exitsThose who attended the last in a daylong series of organ recitals Saturday night found the store's main exits on Market and Chestnut Streets locked. Then came an announcement to use Juniper Street.
Arts & CultureWith a mighty blow, the Wanamaker Organ marks the end of the Center City Macy’s eraThe enormous instrument — 28,750 pipes, 287 tons and snaked throughout the building — isn’t going anywhere. But Macy’s is, closing its showpiece store at 13th and Market Streets for good Sunday.
Arts & CultureWith a mighty blow, the Wanamaker Organ marks the end of the Center City Macy’s eraThe enormous instrument — 28,750 pipes, 287 tons and snaked throughout the building — isn’t going anywhere. But Macy’s is, closing its showpiece store at 13th and Market Streets for good Sunday.
Theater‘Nora: A Doll’s House’ at the Hedgerow Theatre is a fitting homage to the Ibsen classicDespite a murky ending, the original storyline is compellingly expanded over the span of a century with excellent actors
Theater‘Nora: A Doll’s House’ at the Hedgerow Theatre is a fitting homage to the Ibsen classicDespite a murky ending, the original storyline is compellingly expanded over the span of a century with excellent actors
Arts & CultureA Native American adolescent’s skull at the Penn Museum moves closer homeThe Museum has established the deceased's tribal heritage and is proceeding with the steps toward repatriating the remains.
Arts & CultureA Native American adolescent’s skull at the Penn Museum moves closer homeThe Museum has established the deceased's tribal heritage and is proceeding with the steps toward repatriating the remains.
PhiladelphiaThree DOGE-targeted buildings in Philly could be sold, leaving their historic art at risk: ‘It really will be a travesty’Half of the General Services Administration's staff that managed more than 20,000 artworks in federal buildings around the country were put on leave.
PhiladelphiaThree DOGE-targeted buildings in Philly could be sold, leaving their historic art at risk: ‘It really will be a travesty’Half of the General Services Administration's staff that managed more than 20,000 artworks in federal buildings around the country were put on leave.
Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Ballet premieres Angel Corella’s ‘Boléro’ in the director’s new choreographer eraFollowing a run of Corella’s "Swan Lake," Philadelphia Ballet returned to the Academy of Music Thursday night for another black-and-white program.
Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Ballet premieres Angel Corella’s ‘Boléro’ in the director’s new choreographer eraFollowing a run of Corella’s "Swan Lake," Philadelphia Ballet returned to the Academy of Music Thursday night for another black-and-white program.
Arts & CultureThree rare pipe organs, Rosalinde, Hildy, and Veronica, are among Philadelphia’s newest residentsThe Europeans instruments have somehow survived multiple centuries, are now being heard at First Presbyterian Church off Rittenhouse Square.
Arts & CultureThree rare pipe organs, Rosalinde, Hildy, and Veronica, are among Philadelphia’s newest residentsThe Europeans instruments have somehow survived multiple centuries, are now being heard at First Presbyterian Church off Rittenhouse Square.
Arts & CulturePhilly’s long-running StorySlam events canceled due to NEA funding freezeA Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance indicates the federal freeze has led to severe financial challenges for area arts organizations.
Arts & CulturePhilly’s long-running StorySlam events canceled due to NEA funding freezeA Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance indicates the federal freeze has led to severe financial challenges for area arts organizations.
Arts & CultureThe Tony-nominated choreographer who started Penn’s hip-hop dance companyFrom the back row of dance recitals to the front row on Broadway musicals, '& Juliet' choreographer Jennifer Weber's success is untraditional.
Arts & CultureThe Tony-nominated choreographer who started Penn’s hip-hop dance companyFrom the back row of dance recitals to the front row on Broadway musicals, '& Juliet' choreographer Jennifer Weber's success is untraditional.
Arts & CultureCiting ‘political changes,’ pianist András Schiff cancels U.S. concert dates, including with the Philadelphia Orchestra"Let’s not give up hope for better times," the pianist and conductor said.
Arts & CultureCiting ‘political changes,’ pianist András Schiff cancels U.S. concert dates, including with the Philadelphia Orchestra"Let’s not give up hope for better times," the pianist and conductor said.
Arts & CultureWhere does Lang Lang like to eat when he’s in Philly, the city where ‘everything started’?Lang Lang, a Curtis graduate and superstar of the piano world, is playing the Marian Anderson Hall this Sunday.
Arts & CultureWhere does Lang Lang like to eat when he’s in Philly, the city where ‘everything started’?Lang Lang, a Curtis graduate and superstar of the piano world, is playing the Marian Anderson Hall this Sunday.
Arts & CultureThe Philly drag show on ice that made Rand Paul’s ‘government waste’ list is back this weekendAfter playing at the Tarken Ice Rink, the Bearded Ladies show 'Beards on Ice!' will be performed at the Laura Sims Skate House in West Philly.
Arts & CultureThe Philly drag show on ice that made Rand Paul’s ‘government waste’ list is back this weekendAfter playing at the Tarken Ice Rink, the Bearded Ladies show 'Beards on Ice!' will be performed at the Laura Sims Skate House in West Philly.
Theater‘King Hedley II’ at the Arden is a master class in live theaterJames Ijames' reworking of the August Wilson 1980s text reminds us how the Reagan years never really left us
Theater‘King Hedley II’ at the Arden is a master class in live theaterJames Ijames' reworking of the August Wilson 1980s text reminds us how the Reagan years never really left us
Arts & CultureThe Wanamaker Organ is closing out the Macy’s era with a grand, daylong series of concertsWhile Friends of the Wanamaker Organ remains encouraged, it is unclear if the organ will be played as regularly after the closure of Macy's.
Arts & CultureThe Wanamaker Organ is closing out the Macy’s era with a grand, daylong series of concertsWhile Friends of the Wanamaker Organ remains encouraged, it is unclear if the organ will be played as regularly after the closure of Macy's.
Arts & CultureBarnes, the original bad boy of art, is badder than ever in Blake Gopnik’s new bookArt critic Blake Gopnik spent hundreds of hours immersed in Barnes’s archives. The result is 'The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream.'
Arts & CultureBarnes, the original bad boy of art, is badder than ever in Blake Gopnik’s new bookArt critic Blake Gopnik spent hundreds of hours immersed in Barnes’s archives. The result is 'The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream.'
