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Year 31, No. 25
Celebrating 31 Years of Community News
FIND YOUR COMMUNITY Society Hill Playhouse to Host Final Curtain NEWS HERE! Call with “Liberty City Radio Theatre”
February 24 – March 1, 2016
Pennsylvania Ballet Premieres “Don Quixote” Angel Corella’s New Adaptation of Marius Petipa’s Beloved Classic
Wesley Enhanced Living Main Line Art Exhibit Page 3
VoxAmaDeus Presents Concert in Gladwyne Page 6
Limón Dance Company Performances Page 16
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From left – James Miller, Alexandra Rush, Joshua Kirwin, and Kate Heaney recreate the golden age of old time radio in “Liberty City Radio Theatre,” the final show at Society Hill Playhouse on March 4 and 5, 2016. Photo/Kory Aversa ociety Hill Playhouse (507 S. 8th Street) will host its final curtain call with the world premiere of “Liberty City Radio Theatre,” on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5, 2016. Crime, noir, romance, screwball comedy and farce – all fuel-injected with laughs in an all-new original show. Ticket reservations are available at the Society Hill Box office by calling 215-923-0210. Ticket prices are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Doors open at 7 p.m. for pre-show music and cocktails, and the show begins at 8 p.m. “Liberty City Radio Theatre” is a live show in the style of old time radio, with actors on stage recreating the golden era of the ‘theatre of the mind,’ with newly written and adapted episodes for the modern audience. This unique and nationally trending style of theatre is not being produced elsewhere in Philadelphia. Complete with on stage sound effects and live music, the “new-time old-style” radio show will be filled with laughs for newcomers and nostalgia for those that remember gathering around the RCA to hear tales of adventure and romance. This will be the final performance at the Society Hill Playhouse, as it is scheduled to go dark on March 15. For 55 years, Deen Kogan and her late husband, Jay, brought thousands of shows filled with mirth and music and amusement to Philadelphia audiences, and now the theatre awaits a wrecking ball, but not without one last hurrah.
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Soloist Mayara Pineiro and Principal Dancer Arian Molina Soca in the preview of “Don Quixote.” Photo/Alexander Iziliaev ennsylvania Ballet’s Artistic Director Angel Corella shares his Spanish culture with audiences through his adaptation of Marius Petipa’s “Don Quixote.” Performances, supported by PECO, run March 3 - March 13 at The Academy of Music and are certain to captivate audiences. “I’m thrilled to bring a real feel of Spain to The Academy of Music’s stage,” said Corella. “The choreography will be infused with authentic Spanish culture and the sets will be adapted to enhance the festive costumes and Spanish flair. Everything on the stage will look and feel like the square in my hometown in Spain.” Dedicated to making his Don Quixote as authentic as possible, Corella purchased authentic costumes, fans, and cas-
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“Transformations” Coming to Main Line Art Center ain Line Art Center in Haverford is proud to announce Matthew Courtney (Philadelphia), Sun Young Kang (Bryn Mawr; 2015 Finalist), and Zahra Nazari (New York) as the 2016 recipients of the Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art. Selected by Members of Main Line Art Center’s Board of Artistic Advisors and Executive Director through a highly competitive application process, Courtney, Kang, and Nazari will be featured in “Transformations,” the 12th Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, on view at Main Line Art Center March 7 to April 17. Sun Young Kang’s “In Between.” Masters of their primary medi© Sun Young Kang 2014 ums and inspired by cultural specificity, each artist expands their Zahra Nazari’s “Points of Departure Installation.” © Zahra Nazari 2014 artistic practice to embrace installation with works that fully engage the audience in constructed objects, the spaces they inhabit, and the concepts they conjure. Through painting, ceramic sculpture, and paper arts, the artists transform, not only their own materials, but the galleries themselves into unexpected environments that dance between the evident and the ethereal. See “Transformations” at Main Line Art Center on page 12
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