In a unique program at Bartram's Garden, including an Andalusian-inspired dinner, composer/performer Daniel de Jesús honored Federico GarcÃa Lorca with voice and music. Anndee Hochman …
With Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, author Amy Jane Cohen places Black history at the heart of our city while honoring Black people not as victims, but as agents and victors. L…
For the start of its ambitious, community-centered Philly Cycle series, InterAct teams with Theatre in the X for this warm, involving exploration of love and faith for two generations of Mus…
An ambitious new interdisciplinary stage show from Pig Iron imagines a pair of modern Philly teens who uncover a power source hidden since the days of Ben Franklin, and fight the forces of e…
Spare and devastating, the Wilma Theater's A Summer Day gives eloquent expression to the complexity of grief. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Small Ball, a fairy-tale musical about pint-sized basketball players, still needs a major assist. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Serafin Summer Music fills the air with a dozen performances this month, Dolce Suono returns to a 2012 performance, and Orchestra in the Garden blooms. Gail Obenreder previews.
Pride continues, spending three weeks in space, and dancing to reconnect with the earth. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up the week.
Both locally and nationally, dance is benefitting from increased visibility and representation of openly trans and/or nonbinary artists, but dance still clings to stereotypes of gender more …
Dive deep into three shows closing out the 2024-25 theater scene. Darnelle sits down with the artists behind Inis Nua's Square Go, PTC's Small Ball, and Theatre Exile's Glitter in the Glass.
A "doomsday" budget that would slash SEPTA service by 45 percent and raise fares by more than 20 percent poses an existential threat to Philly's cultural sector. But if we all speak up now, …
New Orleans glass bead artist Demond Melancon, a modern icon of the Mardi Gras tradition of Black Masking, a confluence of West African, Afro Caribbean, and Indigenous cultures, gets his fir…
With exclusive rights to the first stage adaptation ever approved by the Baldwin estate, Quintessence Theatre Group delivers a steamy, affecting treatise on the politics of queer love and de…
R. Eric Thomas's Glitter in the Glass gets its East Coast premiere at South Philly's Theatre Exile in a hilarious and thought-provoking production directed by Ontaria Kim Wilson. Krista Mar …
In their first collaboration, Inis Nua and Tiny Dynamite unite their popular pub-themed performance styles with the Philly premiere of Square Go, a about two Scottish teen boys facing a figh…
In honor of our third annual BSR Book Week, the BSR team offers book recommendations on a theme: reading as an act of resistance. These books inspire us, help us focus and understand the wor…
In Kayala's Southern Thai Kitchen: A Cookbook, acclaimed chef Nok Suntaranon shares the flavors of her award-winning Kalaya restaurant with home cooks who want to try their hand at authentic…
The new romantasy genre"a mashup of romance and fantasy wildly popular with women"is actually full of regressive themes that deny women's agency and political stakes. Chhaya Nayyar considers.
From the Delaware Valley's earliest inhabitants to the "reform" movements and anti-urbanism of today, Philadelphia: A Narrative Historyis a window on the American experiment"especially as ce…
J.B. Hwang's debut novel, out this July, follows a woman who upends her career as she grieves for her best friend, exploring female friendship and working-class lives in the early days of Co…
In Theatres of the Body, professor, editor, author, and dance scholar Lynn Matluck Brooks dives into a history of Philadelphia, and the America it influenced, through the lens of dance in th…
Temple professor and multi-genre writer Sharon White's latest work of fiction, minato sketches, takes the reader on a rich and poetic interior journey with a woman recovering from stroke. Cr…
Jennifer Weiner's latest novel follows two sisters from Philly who achieve pop-music stardom in the early 2000s that leads to an estrangement in the present day. It's a relatable story of si…
Notable historian, professor, and author Peter Conn reflects on Philly as the Athens of America in his illuminating and rewarding new book exploring the work of 19th-century portraitist Thom…
A new graphic novel from Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett tackles the vast, varied, and longstanding history of trans folks around the world, combatting the ongoing erasure of trans lives. Ra…