To kick off the "B-Side" series of its current Queer Revolutions season, EgoPo welcomes longtime collaborators Abrahamse & Meyer Productions with The Knightly Quest, a relatively little-…
A new exhibition at Philly's ICA explores what artists express in work made for the outdoors, from shrines to found objects to decorated cars, and a mirrored orb by Jeff Koons. Pamela J. For…
An ambitious, sold-out world premiere at North Philly's Esperanza Arts Center combines real-life stories from Mexican American locals and their families with rich, fantastical cultural eleme…
Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with Morgan Bassichis, the creator of a new show about comedian Frank Maya, one of the first openly gay performers on mainstream airwaves like MTV. Ca…
The Philadelphia Film Festival kicks off its 2024 screenings with September 5 and Anora, two great films sure to draw a lot of buzz as they head into their upcoming releases. Stephen Silver …
In a glorious season opener, Renaissance band Piffaro and the vocalists of TENET explored the musical world of the great poet Francesco Petrarch, including his unfulfilled lifelong love (con…
Ethiopian American artist and design star Jomo Tariku, whose work spans from the PMA and the Smithsonian to Marvel's onscreen Wakanda, gets his first-ever solo show at Fishtown's Wexler Gall…
PHILADANCO!'s new show, Crossroads Comedy Theater gets hilariously spooky, a new accessible workshop series at Painted Bride, and Esperanza Arts Center opens its new show NICHOS. Kyle V. Hil…
Offerings from Pyxis Piano Trio, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Jasper String Quartet, and more round out the rest of the month. Gail Obenreder previews.
Jonathan Larson's early 90s one-man show continues to find new life in light of his legacy with a production by Theatre Horizon. Stephen Silver previews.
The Strides Collective presents Matt Shvyrkov's Confabulation, a frequently engaging portrait of misfits that seems at odds with its overly ambiguous structure. Kiran Pandey reviews.
1812's popular political satire revue This Is the Week That Is returns to Plays & Players to take on the 2024 election in its 19th edition. But out-of-touch sketches offer mostly limp la…
This solo show from Delco native Dave Droxler mixes his real-life childhood in the Philly burbs with his love for a slew of comedians, especially his imaginary friend and real idol Robin Wil…
In Erlina Ortiz's La EgoÃsta, now getting its Philly premiere at PTC, two very different sisters (one an irreverent comedian and the other a devoutly Christian bank employee) navigate the…
Ten years ago, when Angel Corella became artistic director of Philadelphia Ballet, the company needed new ideas. As the premiere of his revamped Le Corsaire approaches, he speaks with Camill…
Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with Dave Ebersole and Mick Loro, who share about their new adaptation of Frankenstein, onstage at Widener University Oct 10-20, 2024.
Erlina Ortiz's new play, La Egoista, gets its Philly premiere at Philadelphia Theatre Company. She sat down with podcast host Darnelle Radford ahead of the October 9, 2024 opening.
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day in Philly all weekend, Confabulation by Strides Collective, and block parties for the vote. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Prolific curator and Streets Dept blog founder Conrad Benner is back with To the Polls 2024, a bi-annual nonpartisan project from Mural Arts urging Philadelphians"who may decide this Preside…
Quintessence kicks off its 15th anniversary season with a bold adaptation of Cyrano, casting the charismatic yet insecure hero as a defiant poet fighting against mediocrity and bourgeois con…
Philadelphia Artists' Collective continues its history of inventive productions by staging August Strindberg's Dance of Death at the Franklin Inn Club, with a chance for the audience to ming…
Fever Dream Repertory, a new local company, lands at Plays & Players for the Philly premiere of Mercury, a pitch-black horror comedy that evokes Hitchcock's comedy and a queer and bloody…
Mahler's Third, the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, got an exciting, multifaceted performance from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, alongside soloist Joyce…
James Ijames takes on the weighty topic of gentrification in Good Bones with this production at New York's Public Theater, but the play itself is still in need of renovation. Cameron Kelsall…
A new season of music opens with Chamber Orchestra, the Crossing, Variant Six, and more. Gail Obenreder previews.