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The Puget Sound Piano Trio will perform the final recital in the “Five Fridays” series of fundraising concerts at 7:30 p.m., April 19, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill.
Final ‘Five Fridays’ set for April 19 with Puget Sound
The final recital in the “Five Fridays” series of fundraising concerts held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, is set for April 19. more
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Guests at a reception following a Broadway opening gather in Terence McNally’s “It’s only a Play” on stage at Act II Playhouse in Ambler.
The play's the thing in Act II's production of a McNally comedy
Among the 30-odd plays and librettos of Terrence McNally, the madcap humor of "It's Only A Play" stands out. more
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Elliott Gould portrays hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe in a 1973 neo-noir film, “The Long Goodbye,” showing Tuesday, April 2, at 7 p.m., at Woodmere Art Museum.
'The Long Goodbye’ a 1970s take on a classic genre
Perhaps no other movie genre, save for the classic western, relies more on time and place than the detective movie.  more
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The Macbeths come calling at Quintessence Theatre Group in Mt. Airy. The production starring Daniel Miller and Scott Parkinson opened last week and runs through April 21. Review by Hugh Hunter is next week’s Chestnut Hill Local.
'Macbeth' at Quintessence
“From Womb to Womanhood: The Journey of Black Girls” exhibit at Mt. Airy Art Garage features the work of (from left) Debra Powell-Wright, Pat McLean-Smith and Nassunni Abdul-Karim. The multimedia presentation that examines the way Black women demonstrate love, joy and magic will be on exhibit through March 31.
'From Womb to Womanhood' through March 31
“Tea in my Studio,” date unknown, by Susette Schultz Keast
Celebrating women artists and the anniversary of groundbreaking festival
The works of artists including Sarah Miriam Peale, Susette Inloes Schultz Keast and Selma Hortense Burke are on display at Woodmere. more
Pianist Marja Kaisla (left) with young musicians who are part of the Young Musicians Musicales program for which Kaisla serves as program director. The musicians will celebrate the program’s 90th anniversary season with a concert April 6 at Woodmere Art Museum.
‘Young Musicians’ to play 90th Anniversary Concert at Woodmere
Young Musicians Musicales will celebrate its 90th anniversary season with a special concert at Woodmere Art Museum. more
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Bruno Ganz and Licia Maglietta star in the Italian rom-com “Bread and Tulips,” showing at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, at Woodmere Art Museum.
‘Bread and Tulips,’ a rom-com about self-discovery, screens at Woodmere
Who hasn’t, at one point or another, dreamt of escaping the drudgery and disappointments of their daily life and starting fresh? more
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Children’s book launch this weekend
Author Nancy G. Braitman will celebrate the launch of “Milo Loves the Seashore” this weekend during events in Chestnut Hill. more
From left, Amelia Brugger Ford (4th grade), Emma Simpson (4th grade), Malina Covington (6th grade) and Kai Williams (6th grade) will be performing with many other children in “Aladdin Kids” March 14 and 15, 6:30 p.m., at Houston Elementary School, Allens Lane & Rural Lane in West Mt. Airy.
Houston Elementary to stage a magical musical trip
The Henry H. Houston School’s production of “Aladdin Kids” is a case study of what kind of magic can happen when a committed teacher gets an entire community involved. more
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Tuesday Nights at the Movies features Hollywood’s pre-Code era in screenings of “Parole Girl” and “Heat Lightning” March 19, at Woodmere Art Museum.
Woodmere presents Hollywood’s early, untamed years
Woodmere Art Museum is scheduled to host an unusual program on March 19, showing a double feature of movies from the pre-Code era. more
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Saxophonist Jonathan Wintringham
‘Five Fridays’ kicks off an impressive music lineup
Chestnut Hill maestro Donald Meineke will conduct Choral Arts Philadelphia in a concert entitled “In a Strange Land – Songs of Exile and Hope” Saturday, March 16. more
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The Rev. Scott Robinson will be reading from his new book about the Wissahickon and answering questions on Sunday, March 10, 3 p.m., at booked, 8511 Germantown Ave.
Minister's poetic ode to Wissahickon at booked
For centuries, poets and authors have been rhapsodic about the beauty and majesty of Wissahickon Park. The latest addition is this new book. more
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Caroline Meline will discuss “The Constant Dieter” on Saturday, March 9, 2:30 p.m., in the second floor reading room at Big Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane in West Mt. Airy.
The challenge of conquering an eating disorder
Caroline Wiseblood Meline experienced so much extreme anxiety as a teenager that she says it “grew into a monster.” more
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Northwest Philadelphia area exhibitors add to the sights and scents at this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show, at the Philadelphia Convention Center through Sunday. Robertson’s Flowers and Events of Chestnut Hill offered a vision of boldly colored different shapes in happy co-existence in their display, “Harmony in Geometry.”
Locals exhibit at Flower Show
Vail Gualtieri, Stephen Negro and Ryan Kirchner (from left) chat in a scene from Conor McPherson’s “The Weir,” running through March 17 at Old Academy Players in East Falls.
A night of chilling ghost stories in ‘The Weir’
As a boy, playwright Conor McPherson would leave Dublin to holiday in rural Gaelic Ireland. He spent time with his grandfather, who told him ghost stories. more
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Poet Aracelis Girmay
The Crossing to perform ‘You Are Who I Love’
Donald Nally will lead The Crossing in a performance of Harold Meltzer’s “You Are Who I Love,” set to Aracelis Girmay’s poetry, on Sunday, March 17. more
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Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Paul Giamatti in “The Holdovers.”
Oscars to highlight area stars
Actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who grew up in Germantown and Mt. Airy, may just complete a sweep of supporting actress honors on Sunday. more
Cloud of Water / Nube de aqua, 2017, by Henry Bermudez
From Venezuela to Philadelphia, and the Wissahickon
The current exhibition at Woodmere Art Museum explores the work of Henry Bermudez, a Venezuelan-born artist. more
Matthew Glandorf, former artistic director of Choral Arts Philadelphia who left the city to become regional cantor in Cloppenburg, Germany, returns to play the organ March 16 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5421 Germantown Ave. in Germantown, where he will improvise a film score to accompany a screening of the 1928 silent motion picture “The Passion of Joan of Arc.”
Eight is the magic number for organ festival opening March 15
John Walthausen, artistic director of the Philadelphia Organ Festival, has gathered a roster that includes eight concerts by eight organists in eight locations. more
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