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Another serving of November classical music offerings popping up in the Greater Philadelphia area. Gail Obenreder previews.
A short film festival from cinéSPEAK, music at the Weitzman and Bartram's Garden, new play Shoptalk, and more highlight the week. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
In 2017, PAFA became the preserver and promoter of globetrotting 20th-century American sculptor John Rhoden's artistic legacy. Now, PAFA mounts the artist's first comprehensive retrospective…
The Delaware Symphony Orchestra continues its 2023-24 season with guest conductor Michelle Di Russo, who programmed her ideal concert with JoaquÃn Rodrigo, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and mo…
What does arts journalism have to do with PR? As arts writers and editors, we often work closely with PR people. How do we collaborate? And what are the boundaries between our roles? Alaina …
Philly writer Elaine Terranova's eighth book, Rinse, shows the author's poetic sensibilities, with lyrical language that captures emotional tones and thrumming silences. Anndee Hochman revie…
The 2023 Philadelphia Jewish Film + Media Fall Fest opened with the local premiere of director Ron Frank's Remembering Gene Wilder: a hugely enjoyable walk through the legendary actor's life…
Based on the lived experience of playwright Rosa Hesmondhalgh's cancer diagnosis, Inis Nua's Madame Ovary is equal parts funny and tragic. Jill Ivey reviews.
Exploring the "Earth" with People's Light and Academy of Natural Sciences, a legendary dancing legacy on display at Fabric Workshop and Museum, and more from PHonk!Philly, CraftNOW, and TIMB…
Koresh Dance Company reflects on choreographer Ronen Koresh's emotional journey as an Israeli immigrant and an artist in Aftershock. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
When we ask for your support, we want to be sure we're stepping up to explain our work. But whether or not you can donate, if you're a BSR reader, we bet you'll enjoy this window on how our …
Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware continues its season with In the Heat of the Night, a world-class whodunit that doesn't shy away from its story's disturbing roots in …
Priyanka Shetty's The Elephant in the Room, a solo autobiographical show about an Indian software engineer turned theater artist,
is proving the creator's performance chops in its Philly deb…
Macbeth in Stride, a new adaptation of the Shakespeare classic now onstage at Philadelphia Theatre Company, rocks but doesn't dig its daggers deep enough. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Then and now, fascism feels like an easy fix for any psychic fissure. With Camp Seigfried, Theatre Exile takes us to a Nazi summer-camp in 1938 New York. Wendy Rosenfield reviews.
Arden Theatre Company presents Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me, a play that is as alternately illuminating and frustrating as our founding document. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Selling Kabul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist at InterAct Theatre Company, wrestles with the human cost of occupation and war. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The national tour of Wicked returns to Philadelphia for the first time in six years. How's it holding up? Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Performances hit the stage at the Arden, Theatre Horizon, and the Drake, and more start November. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
November is a month for a lot of cinema classics, from the best filmmakers, at theaters around the Philadelphia area. Stephen Silver previews.
November classical music offerings throughout the Philadelphia area, featuring performances from Articinia, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and music at the Woodlands. Gail Obenreder pre…
From 1912-1940, a little-known feminist debate society flourished in New York. Now, FWM artist-in-residence Jessica Campbell revives and reimagines their meetings in Heterodoxy, a new multi-…
With radically sweet images of women and hardly a man in sight, painter Marie Laurencin constructed a world of female friendship, camaraderie, and low-key eroticism, as explored in a new exh…
Ann Lowe, a Black American designer, should have been as famous as the 20th-century French couturiers who are household names today. A new exhibition at Winterthur charts her remarkable sart…
EgoPo Classic Theater opens a season of international perspectives with Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs, co-produced by South Africa's Abrahamse and Meyer Productions. Cameron Kelsall review…
