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BalletX is at the Wilma Theater from Nov. 7 to 11 in two world premieres and one East coast premiere. Among the large cast in this dynamic contemporary ballet company is Chloe Felesina (above) in one of the new works. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev


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ary artist whose legacy of some 600 buildings, many of them in our city, is being honored by this exhibition. Another show, “A Mine of Beauty: Landscapes by William Trost Richards”, once considered “America’s best known watercolor painter”, presents small- scale watercolors by this


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celebrated landscape and marine painter. Both shows are on view through Dec. 30. 118-128 N. Broad. 215- 972-7600. • The Twenties are roaring again at the National Con- stitution Center with the arrival there of “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” in a travel- ing exhibition created by the Center and curated by Pulitzer finalist Daniel Okrent. Covering more than 5,000 square feet and featuring more than 100 rare artifacts, this unusual attraction also exhibits flapper dresses, cocktail couture, machinery for concocting moonshine, temperance propaganda and other historic curiosi- ties. Through April 28. 525 Arch. 215- 409-6700. • The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel Univer- sity delivers a conservation message with its newest attraction, a series of huge paintings of saltwater fish by James Prosek, dubbed “the Audubon of the fish- ing world”. Fourteen life- size watercolors from his new book, “Ocean Fishes: Paintings of Saltwater Fish”, will be on display through Jan. 21, free with Museum admission. 19th and The Parkway. 215-299- 1000. • “What a Glorious Feeling” is the newest show at Bris- tol Riverside Theatre, a back-stage look at the mak- ing of the tremendously popular musical “Singin’ In The Rain”. This new pro- duction, a local premiere, has a book by Jay Berkow, with Susan D. Atkinson directing an ensemble cast


featuring Summer Broy- hill, Vincent D’Elia, Zak Edward, Liz Filios and Charles Osborne, enacting the love triangle among the film’s star Gene Kelly, his co-director Stanley Donan and their dance captain Jeanne Coyne, all set to the music from the movie inter- spersed with iconic dances and plenty of humor. Through Nov. 18. 120 Rad- cliffe St., Bristol, PA. 215- 785-0100. • The Philadelphia Or- chestra welcome Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero to the podium on Nov. 1 for works by Barber, Copland and Sierra, and with guest soloist Kirill Gerstein, Gershwin’s Piano Conerto in F. 8 p.m., repeated on Nov. 2 at 2 p.m., Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce. 215-893-1999. • Pianist Joseph Kubera pays homage on Nov. 1 to controversial composer John Cage in a program entitled “Music of Chang- es”. 8 p.m., Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce. Info. and tickets at 215-567- 1267. •


Lantern Theater pres- ents the local premiere of David Ives’ “The Liar”, an adaptation of the 1664 French comedy classic by Pierre Corneille. As- sociation Artistic Director Kathryn MacMillan directs a cast of eight: Jake Blouch, Sarah Gilko, Dave Johnson, Emilie Krause, Aubie Mer- rylees, Emily Rogge, Peter Schmitz and Matt Tallman in this romp involving a man who cannot tell


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