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Resident Ensemble Players presents Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing
Choppy seas for a rare farce
Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware takes on Tom Stoppard’s rarely produced Rough Crossing, but it’s choppy seas, despite a cast that is well-known for excellent farce. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image presents Wherever There Is Light
Stunning photographs by formerly incarcerated men of color
Wherever There Is Light, a new exhibition combining portraits, landscape, and collage, starts a new conversation about imprisonment, identity, and justice with cameras in the hands of formerly incarcerated people. Anndee Hochman reviews.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
A historic, absorbing exhibition
A new PMA exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun gathers 28 contemporary artists from across the Black and African diaspora in the US and UK, exploring Blackness as lived experience rather than social construct. K.A. McFadden reviews.
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InterAct Theatre Company presents Pravin Wilkins’s Moreno
Taking a knee, then and now
Moreno, getting its American premiere at InterAct, takes us to a 2016 NFL locker room in the aftermath of Colin Kaepernick’s famous field protest. The show still has plenty to say about our world eight years later. Krista Mar reviews.
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Woodmere Art Museum presents In the Moment: The Art & Photography of Harvey Finkle
Picturing the people’s power
For half a century, Harvey Finkle has trained his camera on those fighting for the rights of homeless, displaced, disabled, or undocumented people on the front lines of American protest. An exhibition at Woodmere looks back on his legacy. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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The Clay Studio presents The Future of Clay
What’s next for the enduring art of ceramics?
To close out its 50th anniversary year, the Clay Studio fittingly looks forward with The Future of Clay, which assembles eight artists for a streamlined show full of intriguing juxtapositions. Crystal Sparrow reviews.
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Ensemble Arts Philly and the Shubert Organization present Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton
The stage where it happens is still a worthwhile ticket
Just in time for the week of the 2024 election, Hamilton is back in town, running at the Academy of Music through November 24. The current production boasts a great cast and sometimes differs a little from previous iterations. An Nichols reviews.
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Theatre Exile presents John Logan’s Red
Paint by numbers
The struggle to make art takes center stage in John Logan’s Red, now revived by Theatre Exile. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Arden Theatre Company presents Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel
A woman worthy of the words
In a new production of Lynn Nottage's celebrated Intimate Apparel at the Arden (already extended through December 8, 2024), compelling performances are the highlight of an uneven whole. nat čermák reviews.
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The Suzanne Roberts Theatre hosts Eli Bauman’s 44: THE unOFFICIAL, unSANCTIONED OBAMA MUSICAL
Red, blue, or in-between: go see this show
Just in time for Philly theatergoers stressed about the 2024 election to find a little relief, Eli Bauman’s crowd-pleasing 44 - THE unOFFICIAL, unSANCTIONED OBAMA MUSICAL arrives for a limited run at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. An Nichols reviews.
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