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Philadelphia Theaters Starting to Reopen

Leigh Goldenberg, managing director of Wilma Theater, is preparing to welcome back live audiences. Audience members must pass a health screening, wear masks, and show proof of vaccination.
Emma Lee
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WHYY
Leigh Goldenberg, managing director of Wilma Theater, is preparing to welcome back live audiences. Audience members must pass a health screening, wear masks, and show proof of vaccination.

Philadelphia theater companies are beginning to come back to in-person performance, but in a staggered way. Some companies are opening plays right now, others are waiting until next year, and still others are opening hybrid live-and-digital productions around the holidays. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins sorts it out.

(Original air-date: 10/25/21)

WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.