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It's Midsummer in downtown Wilmington! Gail Obenreder previews Delaware Shakespeare's latest production.
Unorthodox Methods is a loud, stimulating exploration in single-handed accomplishments. Through humor, it explores ideas of lineage, work vs. play, and when to accept help from others. Corey…
In two streaming 2021 Fringe offerings, Austin-based Highland Lakes Players presents an alternative take on the assassination of Huey Long in Do No Harm, and explores the Canadian October Cr…
Lantern Theater's Me and the Devil riffs on the classic Faustian bargain but adds little new insight. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Should you have kids? Is that a personal decision? In The Choice, inFLUX Theatre Collective's 2021 Fringe offering, three women theater artists navigate questions of pregnancy, and ask who e…
In Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, the performance-art collective Elevator Repair Service use a historical lens to scrutinize racism and civil rights in contemporary life. Cameron Kelsall …
A crafter's delight hits West Philly, Theatre Exile hosts R. Eric Thomas's new play, and a doubleheader jams out at People's Light. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
BalletX opens its 2021-2022 season with a full-length ballet, Sunset, o639 Hours, at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
From neighborhood-based dance to walking tours, the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival offers multiple opportunities to get outside and in motion. Dara McBride previews.
After two long summers and many challenging writing sessions in between, Kyle V. Hiller contemplates how trauma-inspired work is no longer his cup of tea.
There are as many different ways to review Love Unpunished as there are people who died on 9/11. But only the living can remember, and speak a little about the unspeakable. Merilyn Jackson r…
In Like It Is, now on display at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, artist Nyeema Morgan reveals that words are as malleable as the air or paper they inhabit. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
Fans of TLA Video found a new home after Miguel Gomez opened Viva Video in Ardmore. As Viva Video now closes, the community that loved it reflects on the future of movie-watching. Stephen Si…
A festival celebrating Japanese Americans, a new exhibit from Fairmount Water Works, and Vinyl Tap returns to Amalgam. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up the week.
As new plans for a people-friendly Parkway roll out, the Philadelphia Museum of Art remains an important part of Philly's public space"but do the people on the outside matter? Camille Bacon-…
From recognizable classics like 'Casablanca' to notable anti-classics like 'Evil Brain From Outer Space,' a variety of films are screening in the Philadelphia area this month. Stephen Silver…
In a world that expects everyone to travel in pairs, going out alone is a refreshing and important way to reframe your relationship to yourself"and others. Alaina Johns wanders.
In a world that expects everyone to travel in pairs, going out alone is a refreshing and important way to reframe your relationship to yourself"and others. Alaina Johns wanders.
Poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker's Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is a poetry collection exploring Black identity through humor, trivialities, power, vulnerability, an…
Philly shows up for itself with offerings in theater, opera, and film in various neighborhoods in the city. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up the week.
Choreographer Lily Kind presents an evening of club dancing, contemporary dance, and child's play with Wolfthicket, a real pre-Fringe find. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
As companies in Philadelphia and beyond prepare for a return to in-person performances, theater and music critic Cameron Kelsall knows vaccines are the key to safety, even amidst the Delta s…
A volunteer stint repairing a Germantown row house reprises Anndee Hochman's teenage impulse to wield a hammer in lieu of words, and reminds her that all tools can both create and destroy.
Ian Stabler's magical sculpture, thoughtfully constructed in a Chadds Ford meadow, is the latest site-specific artwork commissioned by the Brandywine River Museum of Art. Gail Obenreder visi…
Artist residencies at the Fabric Workshop and Museum often mark important shifts in artistic practice, explored in the exhibition Hard/Cover. Pam Forsythe reviews.
