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Photo credit Alexander Iziliaev By Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal Academy of Music, October 13 The transition phase of Pennsylvania Ballet under Angel
Lewis Whittington is an arts journalist based in Philadelphia. He started writing professionally in the early 90s as a media consultant for an AIDS organizations and then as a theater and dance reviewer for the Philadelphia Gay News. Mr. Whittington has covered dance, theater, opera and classical music for the Philadelphia Inquirer and City Paper.
Mr. Whittington’s arts profiles, features, and stories have appeared in The Advocate, Dance International, Playbill, American Theatre, American Record Guide, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, EdgeMedia, and Philadelphia Dance Journal. Mr. Whittington has received two NEA awards for journalistic excellence.
In addition to interviews with choreographers, dancers, and artistic directors from every discipline, he has interviewed such music luminaries from Ned Rorem to Eartha Kitt. He has written extensively on gay culture and politics and is most proud of his interviews with such gay rights pioneers as Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings.
Mr. Whittington has participated on the poetry series Voice in Philadelphia and has written two (unpublished) books of poetry. He is currently finishing Beloved Infidels, a play about the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. His editorials on GLBTQ activism, marriage equality, gay culture and social issues have appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, City Paper, and The Advocate.
Photo credit Alexander Iziliaev By Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal Academy of Music, October 13 The transition phase of Pennsylvania Ballet under Angel
by Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal Dancer-choreographer Nora Chipaumire in super-hero fight gear portraying the main event boxer at a boxing ring on
photo credit: Ted Lieverman by Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal With sweaty atmospherics of the gay leather dance clubs of the 80s complete
by Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal In mid-August at the FringeArts La Peg brasserie, Nick Stuccio is the picture of relaxed as he
photo credit Terrell Halsey | Co-Founder/Executive Director Jeanne Ruddy, Rep. Donna Bullock, & Co-Founder Victor Keen by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal On one
by Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal Three Aksha Dance Company artistic director Viji Rao’s devised a dazzling program of traditional and contemporary Indian
photo credit: Alexander Iziliaev by Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal After the Pennsylvania Ballet performed three big ballets for their May program ,
by Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal A hurricane fan was going at full blast on the second floor of Shiloh Church in South
Photo credit: Alexander Iziliaev by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal During the curtain-calls for the cast of Matthew Neenan’s “Archiva” with its themes