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Valley Green’s gambit
The Valley Green Chess Club invites players (at every level) to play the game from 5 to 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays at Valley Green Inn on Valley Green Road. more
A conference for LGBTQ+ families
The 13 th Annual Family Matters Conference for LGTBQ+ parents, and prospective and expectant parents, will be held Nov. 3 to 5.  The event is a hybrid conference with Nov. 3 and 4 online … more
Josh L. Hitchens will be staging his one-man “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” on Friday, Oct. 28, and twice on Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in Germantown.
Ghost story writer to stage 'Jekyll and Hyde'
Actor and playwright Josh L. Hitchens, the Theater Artistic Director at Allens Lane Art Center and author of “Haunted History of Philadelphia,” has always loved the macabre. more
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Now, and then: Store owner Brian Reisman opened the store with his son, Sean, 20 years ago, and is now celebrating two decades in business.
20 years for Hill music store even surprises its owner
Brian Reisman never thought his business would last 20 years when he opened Hideaway Music Store. more
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Attendees at last year’s Awbury Arboretum Harvest Fest celebrated the fall season with music, crafts and good food.
Creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky - and fun
It’s the fall season, when a chill in the air means Halloween for some and less ghoulish events for others. more
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Mezzo-soprano Chrystal E. Williams
St. Paul’s Church Hosts First ‘Five Fridays’ Recital
Mezzo-soprano Chrystal E. Williams and pianist Andrew Hauze were the featured artists at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill’s first “Five Fridays” recital Oct. 14. more
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Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970) aka The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Shown: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio
Tuesday Nights at the Movies
Sequestered in their gothic, Eden-like Ferrara estate that they seldom leave, an affluent Italian-Jewish family ignores the incremental rise of the Fascists. more
A taste of Pennsylvania brewing history
The Springfield Township Historical Society will host a discussion of Pennsylvania brewing history Oct. 27 at the Wheel Pump Inn in Erdenheim. more
Frank X. is shown playing Old Man in the Quintessence production of “The Chairs” at the Sedgwick Theatre in Mt. Airy.
Ex-medical hopeful has prescription for stage success
Frank X., the Barrymore Award winner now starring in Eugene Ionesco's “The Chairs,” says the playwright knew exactly what he was doing when he created the two roles.   more
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Boulden said she wrote the book to let women know “it is possible to get past these experiences (of sexual abuse) ... I get emotional when I read about other women's stories. I saw four therapists myself over a 15-year period.”
Local author's new book about overcoming sexual assault
In talking about her new novel, “Her Past Can't Wait,” which was released Sept. 13, Jacqueline Boulden was animated and passionate. more
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The main character of the Lincoln Mill Haunted House is Viktor Kane, the owner that experimented on and dismembered his workers.
Manayunk’s new haunted house is an adaptation to flooding
The remnants of Hurricane Ida brought dramatic flooding last year to several Philly neighborhoods. more
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Theater mavens who plan to attend a performance of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” at Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in Germantown should prepare to be frightened. That is the warning from officials at the Victorian house, museum and garden where actor, playwright and author Josh L. Hitchens will play the respected English physician and his evil alter ego in a one-man performance, which is based on a Robert Louis Stevenson novella. Hitchens, author of “Haunted History of Philadelphia,” is the theater artistic director at Allens Lane Art Center in Mt. Airy. Tickets are $30, and performances of the show are scheduled for 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28, and 2 and 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 29. Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion is at 200 W. Tulpehocken St. For more information, go to ebenezermaxwellmansion.org.
Prepare to be ‘very afraid’
Piffaro, Philadelphia’s Renaissance Band, opened its season with a “Passing the Torch” concert marking Priscilla Herreid taking over for the group’s founders and co-directors Joan Kimball and Robert Wiemken who retired.
Piffaro passes the torch at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church
Piffaro, Philadelphia’s Renaissance Band, opened its 2022-23 season of in-person concerts with a program entitled “Passing the Torch.” more
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Tuesday Night Movies
OCTOBER 18: ROMAN HOLIDAY more
Tudisco performs the role of Signor Ipsilonne in “Belfagor” by Ottorino Respighi recently at the Redeemer United Methodist Church in Northeast Philadelphia, the first staging in the U.S. of the opera. It was Tudisco's 398th operatic role.
Singing his way into a world record
Ralph Tudisco, a Mt. Airy native and Chestnut Hill College graduate, is determined that his love of opera will get him into the Guinness Book of World Records. more
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Brian M. Felgoise is a Fort Washington resident who has been practicing class-action law for more than 25 years.
Local's new novel skewers 'Filthy Rich Lawyers'
If you have a low opinion of the legal profession, then “Filthy Rich Lawyers” will only reinforce your view.  more
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Frank X. (right) and E. Ashley Izard star in the Quintessence Theatre’s production of Eugene Ionesco’s “The Chairs.”
In ‘The Chairs,’ Old Man and Old Woman host party of the absurd
In "The Chairs," Eugene Ionesco helped transform farce comedy into the modern genre we now call theater of the absurd. more
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Pianist Daniil Trifonov performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
St. Martin’s Church celebrates music with a showcase of its own
The Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Chestnut Hill, celebrated the opening of its 2022-23 season of musical events with an engaging potpourri. more
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Lawrence Geller, 89, and his real-life wife, Bernadette Cronin-Geller, 87, who have performed in many area theaters for 50 years, will stage the poignant two-person play, “Love Letters,” at the Center on the Hill in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill at 3 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11.
Compelling drama, 'Love Letters,' at Center on Hill
Legendary historians David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin have both written that much of their research for their biographies of historical giants consisted of reading and quoting from letters.  more
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The Jewish holiday of “sukkot” is a weeklong celebration and one of the most joyous on the Jewish calendar.
The northwest celebrates the Jewish tradition of Sukkot
This month, two local Jewish groups are celebrating the ancient Jewish festival of Sukkot in a big way. more
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