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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.
Without a Cue's interactive And Then They Were Dead is more fun than it is good"which is, itself, a good thing. Jill Ivey reviews.
Theatre by Development, a new company founded by UArts grads, presents Urinal, a 2017 high-school period piece that thrills for its verisimilitude, even when it bites off more than it can ch…
A new Fringe show by interdisciplinary artist Taahira Teshi mixes monologues, singalong, and bluesy ballads to explore one college student's mental-health journey, and racial inequities in c…
Indecorous Theatre brings a mostly successful production of the popular Complete Works to a beautiful historic space with its Fringe production in the backyard of the Elfreth's Alley Museum.…
With an incisive new satirical drama unfolding backstage at a nonprofit regional theater, Pier Players brings us back to fall of 2021, when theaters were reopening in a whole new world. Step…
Part Shakespeare, part Stoppard, part Beckett, and part Dumb and Dumber, Philly Fringe offering Dogberry and Verges are Scared is one of the festival's must-see shows. Jill Ivey reviews.
North Philly native and street dance pioneer Rennie Harris returns for this year's Curated Fringe with his Beautiful Human Lies: Chapter 4, fearlessly danced by Megan Bridge. Eileen B. Fishe…
