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| Phila. Live Arts, Philly Fringe Festivals Kick Off Friday |
[A]vant garde, cutting edge, oddball, thought provoking – the 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe create a cityscape of music, drama, dance and art all over Philadelphia. Hundreds of performances and showcases in unusual venues and surroundings. One performance is a strange and funny take on Shakespeare by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma out of Brooklyn. Nick Stuccio is the festival producing director. |
| Act II Playhouse Receives $60,000 Grant from PTI |
Act II Playhouse has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI), one of seven grant-making initiatives of the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. The grant will assist Act II in its March 2011 production of the regional premiere - and first American production - of Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's drama The Pride of Parnell Street, which will be directed by Act II Associate Artistic Director Harriet Power. |
| Philadelphia to host happy hour to woo bloggers |
Are you a blogger in Philadelphia? The city wants to have a drink with you. Officials from the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy (sounds nice so far) and the (here it comes) Department of Revenue are cohosting a "Bloggergate Happy Hour" next Wednesday in Old City for, as they put it, "bloggers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, artists, and creatives." |
| Philly Fringe opens LAB, Live Arts Brewery, in Northern Liberties for new works |
This year's Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe opens Friday with a pioneering idea that could become a model for new work, a project far outlasting the festival's two-plus weeks of cutting-edge, oddball, occasionally thought-provoking, and sometimes brilliant performances. With major grants, an expanded new space in Northern Liberties, and a determined leader, the festival is tackling research and development - a concept generally associated with new drugs and new cars, but not new works of art. |
| Tradition reigns at Lansdale Festival of the Arts |
Gene Pembroke of Philadelphia has photographed some of the most magnificent sites around the world. He's shot Buddhist monks in Asia, sacred temples in India, and the pyramids of Egypt. But it was his photograph of a frozen lake in Western Mongolia that earned him "Best in Show" Saturday at the 22nd Lansdale Festival of the Arts in Memorial Park. |
