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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network.

Philadelphia is full of museums. Yes, we have our world-renowned art museum, and the slightly-less famous but still world known museum of medical oddities. But scattered about the city are also a myriad of small museums, the ones we were taken to by bus on school field trips during those halcyon days before summer vacation, when our teachers knew they'd get no work out of us but were determined that we'd still learn something: The Independence Seaport Museum, Fireman's Hall, and, what I think is a forgotten jewel among them, the Underground Museum at Franklin Court.