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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Performing Arts

A scene from Goblin Market
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Philly-area colleges welcome spring with wave of theater productions

Temple University’s production of the original musical “Mystic Rapture” is just one of many local college shows.

3 months ago

Lucy Dacus of Boygenius
Arts & Entertainment

Lucy Dacus and Remi Wolf to headline the Make The World Better Concert Weekend at FDR Park this July

The all-ages festival, co-produced by former Philadelphia Eagle Connor Barwin and promoter Bowery Presents, will take place Friday, July 25 and Sunday, July 27.

3 months ago

The cast performing onstage
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

‘& Juliet’ reimagines the Shakespeare classic — with a 2nd chance

The Broadway musical comes to the Academy of Music on March 25.

4 months ago

John Jarboe smiles
Arts & Entertainment

An ice-skating drag show was pilloried on national television. Philly’s Bearded Ladies Cabaret holds that as a badge of honor

“Beards on Ice,” about climate change, was mocked on Fox News in December. The cabaret group's artistic director hopes the negative attention heightens her message.

4 months ago

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Dancer trainees at the Philadelphia Ballet use a steel girder as a barre during a topping off ceremony for the company's 48,000-square-foot addition to its building on North Broad Street.
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Ballet nears completion of its North Broad building

The Center for Dance will quadruple the ballet’s size and include community spaces.

4 months ago

Listen 1:20
Christopher Dragon conducts the No Name Pops
Arts & Entertainment

No Name Pops announces its inaugural music director

Christopher Dragon, an Australian conductor based in Colorado, wants to make pops orchestra music more contemporary.

4 months ago

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Key of She
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Calling all young jazz enthusiasts for a free female-led jam session

Key of She is leading jazz workshops at the Settlement Music School this Sunday for female and nonbinary students of all levels.

4 months ago

Printmaking station for Black Visioning Group
Community
Billy Penn

Black Visioning Group looks ahead to year 5 supporting Black queer and trans communities

The Black Visioning Group is chasing the dream, literally, into its fifth year.

4 months ago

the audience watches the play
Arts & Entertainment

‘This one hit close to home’: Philadelphia Theatre Company opens a musical about cancer

“Night Side Songs” by Daniel and Patrick Lazour takes on palliative care as an audience sing-along.

4 months ago

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The Philadelphia Theatre Company's presentation of
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

For parents, theater groups offer help caring for the kids

Childcare offerings help parents of young families to feed their own artistic appetite.

5 months ago

outside The Arden Theatre
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia theaters to dim their lights in honor of the late Carrie Gorn

A Broadway tradition never before done in Philly, theaters will simultaneously dim their lights to honor the late publicist.

5 months ago

Phyllis Johnson performing onstage
Community

Bristol Riverside Theatre reopens with the help of $2M from the commonwealth

Sorely needed renovations hope to further Bristol’s economic revival.

5 months ago

Rue Landau looks at a work by Nijah Monique Blanton with Blanton
Arts & Entertainment

Survey of Philly artists shows worry over finding work, space and money

The survey by Councilmember Rue Landau was launched in the wake of the closing of the University of the Arts.

5 months ago

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Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney leads a cheer holding the Lombardi trophy with a group of people reaching for it
Arts & Entertainment

Kansas City Ballet kicks off Super Bowl dance smackdown against Philadelphia Ballet

As Super Bowl fever ramps up, ballet companies from Kansas City and Philadelphia are preparing to battle it out online.

5 months ago

Postcards sent to presidents sit on display
Arts & Entertainment

After 21 years of ‘radical listening,’ the voice of the public is on view at Philly’s Free Library

For two decades, Sheryl Oring has taken dictation from the public by typing postcards to five White House administrations.

5 months ago

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