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The Chestnut Hill Brewing Company is one of 31 participating breweries in the Crafted in Philly Beer Tour.
Breweries in Northwest highlighted in upcoming Philadelphia beer tour
The Crafted in Philly Beer Tour is back for its second year with 31 participating taprooms – six of which are in the Northwest. more
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Sing Slavic, a choir formed after a handful of friends began meeting in a West Philadelphia living room, will perform April 29 at Chestnut Hill Library.
Sing Slavic brings Eastern Europe to Chestnut Hill
Sing Slavic focuses on Slavic folk songs and specializes in performing a repertoire of Eastern European folk songs from countries like Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia. more
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St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church director of music and arts Tyrone Whiting (foreground) leads singers from the congregation in collaboration with the choir at Christ Episcopal Church for a performance of “The Crucifixion” by John Stainer.
St. Paul’s organ rededication recital series continues May 2
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, continues its series of rededication recitals at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 2. more
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Peter Handler and Karen Singer with their collaborative "Coral Reef Table," depicting bleached and dying coral.
Germantown couple’s art meets activism at iMPeRFeCT Gallery
Plenty of kids doodle, draw and dabble in art, then drop those pursuits as they grow older. Karen Singer and Peter Handler never stopped.  more
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Daniel Day-Lewis and Helena Bonham Carter play an engaged couple in director James Ivory’s “A Room with a View."
Helena Bonham Carter shines as a young woman transformed by Italy
Woodmere Art Museum’s Tuesday Nights at the Movies will screen the lyrical coming-of-age movie, “A Room with a View,” on April 29. more
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Members of the Germantown Friends youth jazz ensemble, (left to right) Zekie Lieberman, Jiaray Shi, Sam Desai and Zeke Hammarhead, say they are nervous but honored and excited to participate in the Germantown Jazz Festival.
GFS youth ensemble introduces new generation to jazz
The upcoming Germantown Jazz Festival — scheduled for April 25-27 — aims to celebrate the art form embedded in the culture of the historic neighborhood for decades. more
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Mt. Airy author Lynn Gregory, with her cat Skeeter, will appear at booked, 8511 Germantown Ave. on Saturday, April 19, at 11 a.m., to discuss her just-released third historical novel, “You've Found Her.”
Three post-career novels for Mt. Airy author at booked
Mt. Airy author Lynn Gregory will appear at booked, 8511 Germantown Ave. on Saturday, April 19, 11 a.m., to discuss her third historical novel, “You've Found Her.” more
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Author Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts will lead a workshop on finding Black joy at Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books. She often finds hers on the swings.
Award-winning author brings ‘Black Joy Playbook’ to life
In a world often filled with challenges, pursuing joy sometimes can feel like an elusive dream. Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts is working on it, for herself and others. more
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Olivia Gendron and Brian Scott Campbell portray grieving parents in playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘Rabbit Hole,’ running through April 27 at The Stagecrafters Theater.
Stagecrafters Theater delivers haunting portrait of grief
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is best known for audacious, quirky humor. He did an about-face with "Rabbit Hole," winner of the Pulitzer Prize. more
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Conductor Joseph Colaneri, music director of the Glimmerglass Festival and a conductor with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, will make his debut with the Academy of Vocal Arts April 26 for a series of performances of Pietro Mascagni’s “L’amico Fritz."
AVA to close 90th season with Mascagni’s ‘L’amico Fritz’
The Academy of Vocal Arts will close out its 90th anniversary season of fully staged operatic productions with Pietro Mascagni’s rarely performed romantic masterpiece. more
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Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée star as a couple navigating love and grief in Claude Lelouch's visually daring classic "A Man and a Woman." In the 1966 film, part of the French New Wave movement, director Claude Lelouche uses an array of shooting styles and film - color, black and white, 35 mm and Super 8 - to tell the story of a widow and widower who meet and fall in love.
Life, love and cinema collide in ‘A Man and a Woman’
In its broadest strokes, the film, which screens at Woodmere on April 22, is fairly straightforward. But it's one of the most visually compelling movies of the 1960s. more
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“Donegal Rocks,” 2025, oil on canvas by Jeffrey Reed
Chestnut Hill artist captures Ireland's shifting skies
Artist Jeffrey Reed, of Chestnut Hill,  has no family roots in Ireland, but he has visited the country annually for the last 25 years to paint its extraordinary landscapes. more
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Environmental artist Rebecca Rutstein, 2022
The hidden hand of nature acts as powerful inspiration
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education will present "(In)visible Structures," a solo exhibition by acclaimed environmental artist Rebecca Rutstein. more
Curtis Opera Theatre and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra will perform “Candide,” an operetta with music by Leonard Bernstein, a graduate of the Curtis Institute.
St. Martin’s Church to mark Holy Week with music
The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Chestnut Hill will celebrate Holy Week with a pair of musical performances that shouldn’t be missed by local lovers of sacred choral music. more
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Brent Briscoe, Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton find a cool $4 million in Sam Raimi's “A Simple Plan.”
‘A Simple Plan’ turns the American Dream into a nightmare
Directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda, “A Simple Plan” (1998) is a tense thriller. more
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“Garden Fireflies,” 1993, by Bill Scott
‘In the Eye of the Beholder'
A new Woodmere exhibition honors the artistic contributions of two prominent Philadelphia collectors. more
Seeking curators for Allens Lane fellowship
Aspiring curators have just weeks remaining to apply for the Rebeccah Milena Maia Blum Curatorial Fellowship at the Allens Lane Art Center in Mt. Airy. more
‘Le Groupe des six,’ a 1922 painting by Jacques-Émile Blanche, depicts five of Les Six, the composers collective that included “King David” composer Arthur Honegger, who is pictured in profile on the left.
King David's epic tale echoes through Germantown church
John Walthausen, the organist and director of music of the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, will conduct a performance of Arthur Honegger’s oratorio. more
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Rabbi Malkah Binah Klein will be exhibiting some of her floral photos through the end of April at the High Point Cafe in the Allens Lane Train Station.
Local rabbi’s photos bloom with messages of peace
Rabbi Malkah Binah Klein's stunning floral photo exhibit, "Flowers are Relationships," can now be seen at the High Point Cafe in the Allens Lane Train Station. more
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Paul L. Nolan, Anna Marie Sell and Jamison Foreman star in the Act II Playhouse production of “Dial M for Murder,” running through April 27 in Ambler.
Act II Playhouse delivers murder most calculated
Even before the play begins, you look at the stage and say "Wow." more
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