http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts Coverage of the performing arts in Philadelphia. en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 05:19:38 GMT 2013-05-25T05:19:38Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208909491&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130525_Full_season_returns_to_Bucks_County_Playhouse.html Almost immediately after opening, the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope became known as one of the nation's top summer theaters. Sat, 25 May 2013 05:19:38 GMT 8b9278a9448d5239a4d0ec523d96e4c2 2013-05-25T05:19:38Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208901051&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130525_Growing_pains_in__Spring_Awakening_.html In two days, Philly has seen the openings of two musicals about angsty, horny teenagers of yore, but there's a world of difference between them. Walnut Street Theatre presents an upbeat Grease, but Theatre Horizon gets a lot closer to the blackboard jungle with Spring Awakening. Here, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's celebrated adaptation of Frank Wedekind's oft-banned 1891 drama becomes an intimate hothouse for the blossoming of young lust. Sat, 25 May 2013 05:19:35 GMT dcbe317fd63de1baa602b00cb1c81f67 2013-05-25T05:19:35Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208901041&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130525_Nzet-Sguin_on_course_for_a_long_run.html Yannick Nézet-Séguin might be expected to end his first season as Philadelphia Orchestra music director with some sort of awesome bang, if only because he's that kind of guy. Sat, 25 May 2013 05:19:27 GMT 5639da207c38c20a57ef95b4d3e8feae 2013-05-25T05:19:27Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208677461&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130524__Heroes__in_war_and_in_life__by_Lantern_Theater.html When people give so much of themselves early in life, does it stand to reason that there's next to nothing left for the remaining years? Fri, 24 May 2013 05:32:54 GMT 5ce5c7b97378d28419bfe30f12da04d3 2013-05-24T05:32:54Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208677501&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130524_2-D_homage_to_the__50s__with_great_dancing.html Let's pretend for a moment that Grease, receiving a main-stage airing-out at Walnut Street Theatre, isn't about slut-shaming and prude-shaming or the days when bullies were the cool kids. We can celebrate an era when we had the freedom to mock "Polac Fri, 24 May 2013 05:32:21 GMT 872fb92b70ef78b8e81e755af8c27330 2013-05-24T05:32:21Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208658891&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130524_Performance_and_classical_music_listings.html Theater Professional/semi-professional A Little Night Music Award-winning Sondheim musical. Closes 6/30. Arden Theatre, 40 N. 2d St.; 215-922-1122. $36-$48; $15 children 12-18. Thu, 23 May 2013 18:46:12 GMT c2ed55dd6be64fe5877f80a7cbfc8744 2013-05-23T18:46:12Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208658731&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130524_Museum_and_gallery_events.html Art Museums & Institutions African American Heritage Museum 661 Jackson Rd., Newtonville, NJ; 609-704-5495. www.aahmsnj.org. Tue.-Fri. 10 am-3 pm. Thu, 23 May 2013 18:46:07 GMT f7e47db4702e1df470f7cde53989148e 2013-05-23T18:46:07Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208235581&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130521_An_ancient_tactic_-_no_sex_-_for_a_modern_issue.html So often in the fine arts these days, everything has to be called a "project," always sounding a bit more like research or fact-finding than anything creative. But in the case of Simpatico Theatre Project's premiere, The Lysistrata Project, at Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 5, the creators perhaps didn't know what else to call it. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:04:40 GMT 901c115945b686c7a1ed9f248a14b5c8 2013-05-21T16:04:40Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208235241&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130521_James_Levine_rises_again_at_Carnegie_Hall_podium.html NEW YORK - The reaction to James Levine's return to conducting Sunday can only be described in Yiddish: Geschrei - an outcry like no other. Tue, 21 May 2013 05:32:08 GMT 63b32a75a3bbd178b5d5f0e8e88d5c3b 2013-05-21T05:32:08Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208235211&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130521_The_Lysistrata_Project.html Through June 2 at the Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 5, Ninth and Walnut Streets. Tickets: $17-$22. 215-423-0254 or www.simpatico.org Tue, 21 May 2013 03:02:24 GMT 5d6f31059a16571f2578a37ad2addbc2 2013-05-21T03:02:24Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208029441&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130519_Chase-Riboud_returns_to_Phila__for_an_exhibit_of_her_art.html Barbara Chase-Riboud, the internationally acclaimed sculptor, poet, and author who lives and works in Paris and Rome, was back this weekend where it all began - Philadelphia. Sun, 19 May 2013 14:26:31 GMT 03efc11be2056f6d6b14fe6be97cf215 2013-05-19T14:26:31Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=207804411&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130519_Galleries__Four_Philadelphia_shows_feature_artworks_by_Charles_Searles.html Two Philadelphia artists who created entirely different bodies of work in their careers but whose art displayed a similarly strong desire for personal expression are being remembered in memorial exhibitions this month and next. Sun, 19 May 2013 13:34:21 GMT 757335615d3390f788d82931b82c097c 2013-05-19T13:34:21Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=207804741&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130519_schaffer_edit_7Days__Regional_arts_and_entertainment__by_Michael_Harrington.html Sunday House of cards Set in the 1970s, a time of turbulent political upheaval in England, James Graham's drama This House imagines the backroom struggles in Parliament. A film of the recent National Theatre production screens at 12:30 p.m. at the County Theater, 20 E. State St., Doylestown. Tickets are $18. Call 215-345-6789. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:08 GMT 8162ecf72b63728a23fc9e1e7b47da17 2013-05-19T12:00:08Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=208014451&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130519_Library_Company_chief_plans_to_retire.html John Van Horne, 63, who has presided over the Library Company of Philadelphia during nearly three decades of unprecedented digital change, has announced he will retire in May 2014. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:33:58 GMT 977c507fe2401fcce1a5964a1e7fd6a3 2013-05-19T05:33:58Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=207962601&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130518_A_course_uses_art_to_sharpen_police_officer_s_observation.html This time the painting was Monet's The Japanese Footbridge, an impressionist masterpiece depicting lush gardens and a lily pond. Sat, 18 May 2013 05:57:44 GMT eb62bd63ce68fa7cdfd7ef26d60dd53e 2013-05-18T05:57:44Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168046&44=207952821&32=3796&7=195487&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fentertainment%2Farts%2F20130518_Rattle_provides_some_twists_to_modern_music.html Any other conductor would test an audience's loyalty with a Philadelphia Orchestra program featuring particularly bizarre modern music. But Simon Rattle knows his people. And though he programmed György Ligeti (as might Christoph Eschenbach), and, at one point, swiveled around and yelled toward the audience (as did Riccardo Muti), there was no loss of good will and, in fact, a standing ovation on Thursday for Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre. Sat, 18 May 2013 05:19:42 GMT 43122d406076c995bb3bed8f97b23481 2013-05-18T05:19:42Z