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Elinor in green and Marianne in yellow, in empire-waisted dresses, look tenderly at each other, sharing a caress.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Sisters take the stage

With this adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival breathes new life into a literary classic that even newcomers to Austen will love. Mina Reinckens reviews.

Mina Reinckens

Jul 25, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

In dramatic blue light & fog on the yellow outdoor stage at dusk, the actors strike different contorted & wary poses.

Delaware Shakespeare presents Macbeth

Welcoming the darkness

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 reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Jul 24, 2023 Reviews 5 minute read

Seen through Maravilla’s multimedia sculpture, Ken Lum’s text art is mounted large on the gallery wall.

Arthur Ross Gallery presents Songs for Ritual and Remembrance

How do we remember?

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.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Jul 20, 2023 Reviews 5 minute read

Posing together on a low wooden deck, the three characters interact warily in colorful, multi-textured costumes.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Shakespeare’s The Tempest

The formal tension of Shakespeare’s last storm

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival closes its 2023 season with bold comedic swings and infrequent wonder in an ultimately uneven Tempest. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Jul 18, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Tuomanen under a black-light that renders their spiky costume and long gloves in hot neon colors against a blue backdrop.

Applied Mechanics presents Other Orbits

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 familiar. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jul 18, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Two stylistically rotund, relaxed but inquisitive limestone figures sit side by side with their hands on their knees.

The Barnes Foundation presents William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision

Still a fascinating figure

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 artist’s legacy. Hanae Mason reviews.

Hanae Mason

Jul 17, 2023 Reviews 6 minute read

Cusseaux sits tensely, looking where Kelly, standing at right, gracefully gestures. They're Black dancers wearing blue & gray

BalletX presents Nicolo Fonte’s Sidd: A Hero’s Journey

Siddhartha reimagined in dance

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.

Melissa Strong

Jul 14, 2023 Reviews 5 minute read

Book cover: title at top right in yellow and white text; superimposed on a close-up of Nadia’s serious face, late in life.

Nadia Boulanger: War Years in America and Her Last Decades, by James Whipple Miller

An artist and a woman, in her own words

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 Robbins. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Jul 08, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Book cover. Title in black above, over a colorful impressionistic illustration of a leaning piano adrift in sand dunes.

Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer, by Tina Davidson

An esteemed Philadelphia composer tells her story

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 that informs the art. Peter Burwasser reviews.

Peter Burwasser