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Festival Guides Are Here! And Near You! Go Get One! Now!
Heyo, the Festival Guides are here! For a fancy-pants virtual guide, hit up our website, and "turn" the "pages" to browse what's on offer at the 2010 Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. Need a print guide? Watch for us on First Friday in August, when we're running around passing 'em out. [More]
Philly Fringe Recipe: Tiny Dynamite For Toads In Holes
Emma Gibson, the Philadelphian-by-way-of-Britain producer of Abi Morgan's Tiny Dynamite at this year's Philly Fringe, sends us this recipe: Because of the British connection I thought it might be pertinent to include a very British meal, Toad in the Hole. Not, I should add, what it sounds. [More]
The Weekender: What You're Doing and Why
We'll be down the street enjoying the live local music, moon bounce, venders, and, oh yeah, four beer gardens at the NoLibs 2nd Street Festival. Stop by our table and say hi! --Ellen Freeman [More]
Featured Live Arts Shows
Decasia
Stew and the Negro Problem with Heidi Rodewald
This Afro Baroque cabaret ensemble hovers between the divergent worlds of rock and theater. Songs from their Tony award-winning Passing Strange and new work from Stew and Heidi's upcoming musical are combined with the band's repertoire for this wild concert. [More]
CHICKEN
CHICKEN
Charlotte Ford
Oppressive boredom, obsession with nuclear annihilation, and growing petty hatreds inspire three guards stuck in a nuclear submarine to gleefully enact their worst fears. [More]
DANCE
DANCE
Lucinda Childs
The centerpiece of the 2010 Live Arts Festival, DANCE is the stunning collaboration of choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Phillip Glass, and filmmaker Sol LeWitt. Live dancers perform behind a film of the original cast that is projected onto a giant screen stretching across the stage of the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. [More]
First Love
First Love by Samuel Beckett
Conor Lovett
Samuel Beckett's novella First Love is brought to the stage in this devastatingly funny, tragic, and brutal monologue in a seminal performance by Conor Lovett, one of the world's foremost interpreters of Beckett. [More]