Creative economy
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Painted Bride Art Center will lose its "place" in Philadelphia
Runaway bride
As the Painted Bride Art Center prepares to sell its iconic Old City home, emerging artists wonder where they will find shelter for their own work. Tieshka Smith considers.
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5 minute read
Counterweight finds artists of color, gets lost
A road paved with good intentions
Cara Blouin helped create the website Counterweight to help theaters diversify their artistic pool, but it turned out to be a lot more complicated than she anticipated. Blouin considers.
Cara Blouinand Illustration by Hannah Kaplan
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4 minute read
Can the Barrymore Awards adapt before they die out?
Keeping the Barrymore Awards relevant
When Theatre Philadelphia announced the 2017 Barrymore Award nominations, Jennifer MacMillan asked her friends what was missing. She got a lot of answers — and ideas.
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5 minute read
Millennials in my basement
Enacting bravery, pushing paradigms
Cara Blouin has millennials in her basement — and she's a little bit jealous of their freedom and willingness to buck the system.
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4 minute read
Philadelphia's parity problem
Not separate, but still unequal
Philadelphia theater has a gender-parity problem, and Cameron Kelsall wants producing companies to take notice and fix it. He crunches the numbers and makes a few suggestions.
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6 minute read
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Chicago's critical condition: On the Sun-Times' Hedy Weiss
Critiquing a critic
The Chicago Sun-Times' chief theater critic, Hedy Weiss, sets off another firestorm after reviewing a show at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Philly critic Cameron Kelsall considers.
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5 minute read
REP Radio podcast and BSR present 'Arts Funding: Who Should Pay?'
Take BSR's arts funding panel on the go!
Did you miss BSR's fascinating panel on arts funding with some of the city's arts leaders? Listen and learn about how arts groups make Philadelphia's funding landscape work for them.
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1 minute read
Will Paige Price make or break Philadelphia Theatre Company?
Coming down the mountain
When Paige Price took the helm of a floundering Philadelphia Theatre Company, she steered toward safer financial waters. But will that keep the company afloat? A.D. Amorosi considers.
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5 minute read
Art, politics, and the National Endowment for the Arts
The Crossing at the crossroads
Kathryn Taylor, board president of The Crossing, a chamber choir, says worries about losing NEA funding keep her -- and other arts board members -- awake at night.
Kathryn Taylorand Illustration by Hannah Kaplan
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4 minute read
Drexel University's Westphal College presents 125 Years: Drexel & the City
More than a retrospective
Drexel University looks back at 125 years of its changing landscape with an immersive exhibition that blends past, present, and future. Pamela Forsythe reviews.
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4 minute read