With its Postmortem Project exhibition, the Mütter Museum continues a fraught but necessary process to evaluate and present its collections in line with modern medical, legal, and ethical s…
Globetrotting fashion designer Mary McFadden's archive is now housed at Drexel's Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, and its first exhibition there offers a tantalizing glimpse…
Seven artists and two guest curators offer gorgeous and searing expressions of their American experiences in a satisfying and thought-provoking exhibition at Independence Mall's National Lib…
Dox Thrash, the Georgia-born artist who settled in Philadelphia and invented a whole new method of printmaking, gets an important new show at AAMP. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
BSR Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with cabaret star John Jarboe, whose latest show has become an alluring installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
BSR Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with playwright Roger Q. Mason, whose play The Duat gets its world premiere in PTC's season closer.
Free opera at Dilworth Park, Chocolate Ballerina and Intercultural Journeys dance it out, and a youth-focused film festival at the Free Library populate the week. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Off By One, a world premiere at People's Light about a writer and the impact of his work, featuring TV and film star David Strathairn, feels stuck in the draft stage. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
A new opera about the visionary but little-known painter Hilma af Klint perpetuates longstanding dismissals of women artists and may be a keen disappointment to fans of her work. Melissa Str…
An Nichols visits Philly's Chocolate Ballerina Company, rehearsing for its second annual Black Swan production, based on Swan Lake with original choreography by founder Chanel Holland-Pierre…
When Anndee Hochman was 13, a teacher told her she couldn't sing. Decades later, a basement Broadway singalong in Manhattan's West Village taught her something new.
Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Roger Q. Mason's The Duat, a play that, even with an astonishing central role, struggles to settle into its own rhythm. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Philly's EgoPo Classic Theater builds on a partnership begun in the 1990s with two Indonesian theater companies. They bring Ramayana, a dazzling cross-cultural epic, to the Navy Yard for a w…
Picks for Juneteenth, a new queer dance project continues, cataloging Japan right off Broad Street, and repping all identities with A Love Jawn. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
BSR Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with Hilma librettist Kate Scelsa to find out how this new contemporary opera made its way to the Wilma.
BSR Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with two of the artists behind the Arden's hit production of Once on This Island, running through June 23.
The latest phase of John Jarboe's Rose project, an immersive multidisciplinary installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, interrogates rigid notions of gender with serious playfulness. …
Philly novelist Elise Juska founded the creative writing program at UArts, where she taught for 24 years. She brings us inside her last days at the university, alongside her irrepressible st…
The Climb, the latest world premiere onstage at InterAct, examines the white gaze in feminism, academia, and art, asking questions about power, consent, and commodification. Krista Mar revie…
Hilma, a contemporary opera receiving its world premiere at the Wilma Theater, fails to capture the artistry or mystical charisma of its subject, the painter Hilma af Klint. Cameron Kelsall …
Lovesong follows a British couple who comes to live to the US. In exploring memory, love, and the passage of time, the play's ultimate vagueness makes it hard to empathize with the character…
Power Street Theatre presents the world premiere of Erlina Ortiz and Robi Hager's Siluetas, which brings Tony-winning star KO to Philly. The show could benefit from some more development, bu…
Quintessence Theatre Group's production of Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home From the Wars: Parts I, II & III only intermittently captures the grandeur of the text. Cameron Kelsall re…
The Strides Collective, founded in early 2020, supports new work by local queer playwrights and shines a light on queer stories through play development programs and productions. New Strides…
June brings outdoor music in striking natural locales, early music, new music, the rededication of Verizon Hall, and some bonus musical Book Week picks. Gail Obenreder rounds up.