The latest BSR reviews are in.

Looking at this week's lineup of new stories, they seem to be full of arrivals and departures, from a hit retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice (a foiled escape that's been on our minds for centuries) to a compelling, beautifully told journey around and across our own city's borders. The story onstage at Theatre Exile kicks off with a homecoming, and a Wayne Thiebaud retrospective lands in our region less than two months after the long-lived artist himself departed us.

Critic Cameron Kelsall says Hadestown is some of the best musical theater of the last decade, and this touring production lives up to the hype.

Did you know a Philly artist has developed a giant, participatory experience that lets you outline our city on foot? Hundreds of people have done it, including writer Anndee Hochman, who beautifully captures the collisions, memories, and questions of her trek.

Yes, this retrospective features the artist's delicious, multi-layered, much-loved dessert paintings, but there's also much more here, says critic Gail Obenreder.

A big hit when it premiered more than a decade ago, The Motherf**cker with the Hat ends up "oddly lifeless" in this Philly production, says critic Josh Herren.

Critic Kirsten Bowen says this Philly writer's debut novel is intriguingly subtle, despite its graphic story elements.