New Paradise Laboratories founder Whit MacLaughlin is back onstage for the first time since 1996, exploring the poem that might be his salvation in 707 Hazardous Moves. Merilyn Jackson revie…
Performed for an audience of two, on opposite ends of the city, Nichole Canuso's Being/With is less of a performance and more of an experience. Jill Ivey reviews.
Saving Wonderland is an interactive experience that falls short with antiquated immersive theater mechanics and an uninspired narrative. Kyle V. Hiller reviews.
Local drag king Jawn Wooders takes Fringegoers on an audio tour of LGBTQIA2+ Philly, with options for both digital and in-person experiences. Brad Rothbart reviews.
The Women's Film Festival is back with in-person screenings, a Fringe show inspired by Filipino migrant stories, a poetic conversation at Blue Stoop, and WEIRDO returns to East Kensington. K…
1807 & Friends resumes the music-making that ended just as the lockdown began with a series of chamber music events. Tom Purdom previews.
Mae River Waldron's new concept album captures the grief and joy of memories through musical vignettes as told by ghosts to Olive, a woman mourning the death of her mother. Kyle V. Hiller re…
The Crossing celebrates a return to in-person performance by singing signature works from its past. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Staged in several South Philly parks, R. Eric Thomas's The Ever Present is a family-friendly look at the magic of South Philadelphia and what gets lost as gentrification moves in. Jill Ivey …
Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company (AMM & DCO) performs its signature Umbrella Dance this weekend. Melissa Strong previews.
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-…