Traveling solo artist Megan Markham celebrates edgy, accessible storytelling in Witch with Her Skirt on Fire, an expertly performed trio of tales that reclaim the word "witch" and the women …
For Fringe, espionage and music in colonial Philadelphia. Gail Obenreder reviews The Publick Pleasure's Sympathy Towards a Soldier.
After years of performing a solo show about her own medical and mental health struggles (for international Fringe audiences as well as doctors), Anna Snapp brings I Found That the Sun Will R…
A double bill from a pair of Brooklyn-based choreographers explores adolescence through queer and Asian American lenses, with You're Actually the Last Person I Wanted to See Today and ZOO! K…
In a first for 1812 and an exciting move for the Curated Fringe, Tanaquil Márquez and Eliana Fabiyi's ambitious, funny, and magical new play La Otra, a bilingual production, comes to the …
An unhappy family with Chekhovian undertones takes center stage in Bristol Riverside Theatre's handsome production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Josh McIlvain of Philly's Automatic Arts is back in this year's Fringe with his popular Slideshow, a performance built around a real-life carousel of a stranger's vintage family photos. Walt…
Lee Minora's new solo show, Baby Everything, takes aim at everyone melting down over the state of the world as seen through our screens. Alaina Johns reviews.
Humble Materials continues its annual string of feminist retellings of canonical works with CASS, loosely based on Cassandra's story in Euripides' The Trojan Women. Jill Ivey reviews.
Take a trip back to summer 2005 in Paper Doll Ensemble's world-premiere Fringe show, Pinky Promise, about a trio of tween girls learning how to take up space in the world. Emily Esten review…
Stephen Silver profiles a local filmmaker's first foray into making a movie, while also meeting grief head on.
New fall music from Network for New Music, Opera Philadelphia, and 39 seasons with composer Andrea Clearfield. Gail Obenreder previews.
Rounding up the week with shows from People's Light, Delaware Theatre Company, and Philadelphia Theatre Company; poetry from Wild Indigo, and an exhibition and marketplace raising funds for …
Philly actor, director, and playwright AZ Espinoza's lush and ambitious Caribbean King gets a pair of developmental readings as part of this year's Fringe. Krista Mar reviews.
Lions, the latest Fringe entry from Lightning Rod Special, written and performed by Alice Yorke and Scott R. Sheppard, finds heartfelt laughs and reflection in "the business of letting our d…
New York-based Wolfsmouth Players Company brings Queerano, a mashup of Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Wildean farce, and queer history to the Philly Fringe. Melissa Strong reviews.
A new Fringe experience from juggler Greg Kennedy is more collaborative workshop than performance, mixing art with engineering to take the audience inside a craft that dates back to Leonardo…
The second year of Black Indigenous Circus Week swings into Fringe and Cannonball this week, but it's missing a vital piece because of American policy restrictions. An Nichols previews.
Science and solidarity are at stake in a staged reading of August Hakvaag's The Superconductor. Emily Esten reviews.
An immersive theater experience from veteran Philly performer Nick Gillette and a large ensemble asks the audience pressing ethical questions about our American moment. Alaina Johns reviews.
Performance artist Clayton Lee defies "model minority" stereotypes with The Goldberg Variations, a funny, vulnerable, interdisciplinary original show that explores the greater meaning within…
Amy Sherald's American Sublime was supposed to open in DC this month, but she withdrew it rather than face censorship. Meanwhile, Philadelphians can see Sherald right at home. Anndee Hochman…
SEASON 10(!) of the BSR podcast continues with this deep dive featuring the artists behind Painting Churches and Dogberry and Verges Are Scared. Tune in today.
Philadelphia/Miami art collective Carne Viva Dance Theatre brings Dame La Receta to the Philly Fringe, an interdisciplinary performance exploring immigrants' experience of the American dream…
A new exhibit inspired by Toni Morrison opens at TILT, Philly AIDS celebrates two major milestones, and festivals light up the final days of official summer. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.