{"id":86098,"date":"2026-01-14T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:26:10","slug":"suffs-musical-highlights-philadelphia-suffrage-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86098\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Suffs&#8217; Musical Highlights Philadelphia Suffrage History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The musical Suffs is taking to the road for its first North American tour, arriving in <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphianewsroom.com\/tag\/philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia<\/a> at the Academy of Music. Suffs\u00a0is running now through Sunday, Jan. 18, introducing audiences to Philadelphia&#8217;s suffrage history amid America 250 commemorations in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Suffs premiered at New York&#8217;s Public Theater in 2022, moved to Broadway in 2024, and earned six Tony nominations. Creator Shaina Taub won for Best Book and Best Score, marking the first time a woman won both categories on a single night. Suffs\u00a0is also the winner of the Outer Critics&#8217; Circle Award for Best New Musical.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia connection is reinforced by Taub&#8217;s regional ties to Vermont and New Jersey, Alice Paul&#8217;s Bronx- and Philadelphia-linked history, and the show&#8217;s connections to institutions of higher education in the Philadelphia region, such as Swarthmore College and Bryn Mawr College.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Music is at 240 S. Broad St. in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The musical Suffs is taking to the road for its first North American tour, arriving in Philadelphia at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8232,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-86098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-broadway","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}