While Anndee Hochman faces treatment for osteoporosis, she remembers the different homes we live in, from our bones to our houses, and everything we'll do to keep them standing.
Fredricka R. Maister felt grateful to find a therapist when she needed one most at the height of the pandemic. Their relationship wasn't perfect, but should it have ended the way it did?
Heather Joelle Boneparth says the Eagles' Super Bowl loss felt heavier than it should have: more grief was lurking, but also a new understanding of home, with a Philly flair.
Emily B. Schilling cared for her dying mother at home, and about a decade later, she faced a similar goodbye to her husband. Hospice is exhausting and heartbreaking, but she doesn't regret o…
North Wilmington's Rockwood Park, with its own alleged hauntings, makes an appropriately chilling setting for Delaware Shakespeare's summer outing with The Scottish Play. Gail Obenreder revi…
At UPenn's Arthur Ross Gallery, four artists consider what shared memory signifies for marginalized peoples, and how they preserve it. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
Rounding up the next week, with offerings from the Barnes, Perkins Center for the Arts, and Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. Kyle V. Hiller previews.
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival closes its 2023 season with bold comedic swings and infrequent wonder in an ultimately uneven Tempest. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Applied Mechanics produces an interactive, choose-your-own adventure work of theater in its latest Other Orbits installment, inviting audiences to a convention that is both surreal and oddly…
In its exhibition featuring sculptor William Edmondson, who blurred and subverted a lot of what institutions expect from great artists, The Barnes begins to grapple with ways of seeing the a…
Disabled artists like Alice Sheppard, Natalie de Segonzac, and Carolyn Lazard prove that access is its own art form, defying a deficit mentality and centering inclusion from the start in exh…
BalletX presents Nicolo Fonte's Sidd: A Hero's Journey, an evening-length ballet inspired by Herman Hesse's classic novel about the journey of self-discovery. Melissa Strong reviews.
Alaina Johns and Kyle V. Hiller curate a variety of books from a variety of writers living with disabilities for this year's BSR book week.
An Nichols previews the 2023 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention and how the ECBACC works towards cultural awareness, youth literacy, and building safe spaces for geekdom.
For the first time since BSR's founding 18 years ago (wow, we know), we're spotlighting books written by our contributors, who are some of the region's top critics, essayists, and arts journ…
Philadelphia-based author James Whipple Miller offers a valuable portrait of the legendary composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, told largely through letters to her longtime friend Ruth Ro…
Composer Tina Davidson, who lived in Philadelphia for about 25 years, offers a memoir that isn't the story of a solitary artist obsessed with a craft, but rather the worldly, spirited life t…
In her second book, Philadelphia photographer Hinda Schuman's sensitive and unflinching lens documents the lives of two women struggling to rebuild their lives after incarceration. Anndee Ho…
This book by longtime Daily News columnist Ellen Cassedy explores the roots of a modern movement for women workers' rights"a fight that continues today. Anndee Hochman reviews.
In a new book that promises to infuriate and illuminate in equal measure, Brett H. Mandel traces the roots of Philly's notorious corruption, from the days of William Penn to Bobby Henon's 20…
South Philly author Alicia DeFonzo explores gripping parallel histories in her first book: her grandfather's WWII service, and the unexpected legacies pulling on her own life. Harrison Tsui …
The real-life diary of a stroke survivor and Philly sports lover who entered an assisted-living facility in Delaware County in the 1990s inspires debut novelist Chris Eagle's Dwell Here and …
This debut novella from Philly writer Monica Robinson is inspired by a story ripe for re-imagining: the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice"with a queer, Southern Gothic twist. Jordan Cameron revie…
Philly novelist Chris Lombardi tackles the legacy of James Joyce"and perhaps all creative, eccentric people who have the benefit of being men"in this intricate novel, casting new eyes on Joy…
A recent translation by Laura Nagle brings the early work of Prosper Mérimée to English. Songs for the Gusle brims with 19th-century Romantic spirit while keeping a game afoot in the footn…