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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --There's a sound coming from the Uptown Theatre that's bringing back memories of the greats who once performed there. "The Supremes, Ray Charles, Georgie Woods, of course ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware ... Now empty and dilapidated, the Uptown Theater on North Broad in Philadelphia was once a celebrated performance venue for top-tier Black ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- It's been more than a year since the Uptown Theater began its first phase of renovations and progress has been slow...but steady. To celebrate Black Music Month, the ...
The Uptown Theater, an Art Deco music venue just north of Temple University on Broad Street, is trying to plan a comeback. The place where famous acts like the Jackson 5 and The Temptations once ...
As a little girl growing up in West Philadelphia, Special Projects Producer Karen Smyles made some of her favorite memories at the Uptown Theater on Broad Street. “Mom would take my sister and ...
Like the Metropolitan Opera House, the John Coltrane House, and the Royal Theater, just to name a few, the Uptown Theater is an important part of the city’s architectural and cultural heritage.
Knauer Performing Arts Center) The Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center, in West Chester, Pa., has hired its first artistic ... Khan had been the executive and artistic director of Philadelphia ...
It was on the eve of the Great Depression that the Uptown Theater opened ... of the area surrounding the theater shifted as white flight befell North Philadelphia. Soon, Black doctors, lawyers ...