Playhouse featured in the Philly Inquirer →

Nathaniel Popkin wrote an amazing piece for the Philadelphia Inquirer (link above) that starts with the Playhouse installation as a launching point for a serious dialogue about the problems, history, and activism surrounding the vacancy issue in Philadelphia. It is a beautiful and eye-opening piece that every Philadelphia resident interested in the health and future of this city should read.

An excerpt:

WCRP’s Feldstein says this same sense of open-ended possibility is precisely what makes today an exciting time. “The future of the city is really unwritten,” she says, “in a way that’s just not true of other East Coast cities, because there is so much land available. That’s the promise and that’s the opportunity.”

Bernstein, for one, is game. She’d like to see artists given grants to get to work on vacant land. She thinks the time is right - with the economy in flux and so much land in play - for risk taking. “You can’t just stay on the sidelines,” she says, “and hope no one’s going to get hurt.”