In an evening of one-act performances, multiple female playwrights will take center stage through Crack the Glass theatre Company. In this inaugural production, “Evening of One-Acts” showcases the female playwright, featuring pieces written by women from Connecticut to California and everywhere in between. The pieces range from the light-hearted—including stories from the garden of Eden, the trials of staying in shape, and how frustrating it is to have a car break down in the middle of nowhere—to more serious themes of familial abuse and the consequences of war. These shows have been given life by talented playwrights and now are being brought to life by a talented cast and crew of local actors from the Philadelphia area.
Archive for May, 2011:
Help Save PA’s Cultural Funding
Recent developments in Harrisburg have once again put Arts & Culture on the chopping block, and we need your help if we’re to save the state’s grant funding program.
As you know, despite growing tax revenues, the Commonwealth still has a budget shortfall. Over the past six months, the Cultural Alliance has been working hard to protect the remaining arts and cultural funding in the budget and to ensure that attempts to make up the shortfall do not hit culture disproportionately. On March 8th that effort paid off when Governor Corbett announced a budget that, despite some tough cuts, maintained level funding for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Playing Leni by Madhouse Theater Co
A dark comedy, Playing Leni is a fictionalized account of the capture and arrest of Leni Riefenstahl, filmmaker and propagandist for the Third Reich during World War II. Her captor, an unnamed Allied soldier, must transport Riefenstahl to a detention center. Riefenstahl, however, believes this “trip through the countryside” is the perfect opportunity to create her cinematic masterwork. Writing and rewriting her story as they travel, Riefenstahl comes face to face with the inescapable truths of war, privation, and death camps. The mystery soldier becomes jailor, confessor, and actor in Riefenstahl’s unending pursuit to produce, direct, and edit each piece of her life—blurring the lines between art and reality, ambition and conscience, innocence and culpability.
Murals & Meals Tour Season Starts
Mural Arts teams up with the best restaurants and chefs in Philadelphia for theMurals & Meals tour series. Start your afternoon with a trolley tour and learn why Philadelphia is lauded as the Mural Capital of the World. The tour is followed by a sampling of local cuisine at one of the City’s cherished restaurants with the host chef providing a special presentation for attendees.
Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll Returns
15 BUSINESSES TO FEATURE $1 ITEMS IN HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BALTIMORE AVENUE DOLLAR STROLL
From ice cream to pint glasses to international dishes, $1 deals will be featured every first Thursday from June-September along the avenue; festivities include live music, street vendors, and giveaways of the new West Philly Mix Tape
PIFA Street Fair Coverage
PIFA Street Fair videos from Saturday, April 30, 2011 Ferris Wheel Sword Swallower Trapeze Finale
