Arthur Thomas

Review: See the Explosive AFTER THE BLAST at Big Idea Theatre

It wasn’t that long ago that novels like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road would have been considered farfetched.  A post-apocalyptic wasteland, previously only imaginable, now seems not only plausible but eventually probable. Zoe Kazan takes it a bit further with her stark rendering of the future of America in the smartly written After the Blast, where survivors don’t have the luxury of wandering a barren and dangerous landscape like McCarthy’s boy and his father. Instead, they are miles beneath the surface of the Earth and, generations later, have no first-hand memory of the world above.

XPoNential Music Festival Artists Announced for July 31-Aug 2

WXPN, the non-commercial, member-supported radio station of the University of Pennsylvania, today announced the artists who will perform in its 2020 XPoNential Music Festival presented by Subaru. The annual three-day festival that features the expertly curated mix of established and new artists enjoyed by WXPN members and listeners will take place Friday, July 31 through Sunday, August 2 at Wiggins Park and BB&T Pavilion, located next to each other on the Camden, New Jersey riverfront.

Kids THIRTEEN Announces Kids Poster Contest Winners

New York's THIRTEEN, the flagship station of PBS, and Kids THIRTEEN today announced the winners of the Kids THIRTEEN Poster Contest launched in fall 2012 as part of a year-long celebration to help commemorate the station's 50th anniversary.