Founders of Philly independent press This Must Be the Place present their first show with a selection of paintings and a book release by artists Jaither West and Eric Stewart. Anndee Hochman…
A four-mile public procession led by award-winning interdisciplinary artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz celebrates the resilience and the beauty of Philly’s Puerto Rican community. Constance Garc…
Stars and Stripes Forever! celebrates America’s Semiquincentennial in dance and Philadelphia Ballet’s first season in its new Center for Dance at Broad and Wood Street. Melissa Strong pr…
As the weather crisps to Autumn, we turn our sights to the ReelAbilities film festival in New Jersey, Moore College of Arts's new exhibit, and Chestnut Hill's seven-block festival for the ar…
Jen Silverman adapts the 17th-century tragicomedy The Witch of Edmonton into a sizzling modern-ish fable with all the same questions about womanhood, now onstage at Quintessence. Gabrielle K…
Big Babies, the latest world premiere from David Lee White and Kate Brennan, about a dinner party for parents of toddlers (and their wacky neighbors), is onstage at Pier Players Theatre Comp…
The Arden opens its 2026-27 season with Girl from the North Country, featuring a script by Conor McPherson and music by Bob Dylan. It feels like less than the sum of its parts. Josh Herren r…
Classical music offerings in the Philly region are as rich as ever this October, with Philly premieres (Suddenly Last Summer) alongside canon favorites (Don Giovanni), a major rediscovery, a…
The October dance calendar balances several important local performances with notable visiting companies and other events for dance lovers, including classes and discussions. Camille Bacon-S…
October brings lots of scary screenings, naturally, but there’s plenty more in the mix, including a Talking Heads classic, 1949’s The Heiress, Sofia Coppola’s 2006 Marie Antoinette, an…
Philly’s 250-themed events are going strong as we round the corner into October. Enjoy the fall weather at historic festivals and tours, catch some dance or theater, and see what’s happe…
A message from editor Alaina Johns to this year’s Fringe artists, and anyone who values their work.
As we finalize the transition to our new associate editor in October, An Nichols steps up with a Weekly Roundup to get your October arts calendar started, featuring theater, music, and famou…
Philly’s October theater scene brings notable regional premieres including Bess Wohl’s Liberation and Jen Silverman’s Witch, and lots more, including a classic horror adaptation. Camer…
Playwright DJ Hills’s Horsegirl & Cowdaddy gets its world premiere at the Wilma, exploring the power of transformation and the possibilities of putting down roots at home. Gabrielle Ka…
Theatre Contra joins this year’s Fringe with an eight-person rendition of all five Twilight movies…performed in just one hour(ish). Adryan Corcione reviews.
How does it feel to look at nothing, a world premiere from Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon in this year’s curated Fringe, is not quite an opera as billed, but it’s an ambitious, imme…
Iron Age Theatre’s Radical Acts production branch brings Howard Zinn’s Marx in Soho to the closing weekend of the Philly Fringe, revealing the odd contradictions of Zinn’s script today…
Prolific Philly composer Andrea Clearfied has been hosting her own chamber-music salon (which became a “Zalon” on Zoom during the pandemic and is now a hybrid “SZalon”) for 40 years.…
Cannonball presents Suz Evans’s Ghost Fetus, a baffling abortion satire filled with empty provocations. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Casual Fifth, a Philly-based drum and dance dance ensemble, joined this year’s Fringe with a high-energy celebration of love. Everyone dressed as brides. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
In David Auburn’s Summer, 1976, two women’s reminiscences about the summer they met increasingly diverge. The play gets a believable Philly-premiere production at the Lantern. Walt Magui…
In this world premiere by Adrienne Dawes, now onstage in Trenton, former high-school frenemies and one-time lovers end up on vacation together, in a story balanced between comedy and serious…
Buzzy Belgian theater collective Ontroerend Goed’s Handle with Care comes to this year’s Fringe, turning the audience into the creators of their own experience. Anna Fiscarelli-Mintz rev…
A new Fringe show from collaborators Nick Gillette and Nick Jonczak imagines a man who has translated the Voynich manuscript, one of the greatest real-life mysteries of Medieval Europe. Walt…