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Gliko in white feathers, stands in front of a circular blue-lit window. Rishard & Kidwell sit on a beanbag looking at Pierce.

Wilma Theater presents Nathan Alan Davis’s Eternal Life Part 1

The times we create

Eternal Life Part 1, in its world premiere at the Wilma, offers a vision of the near future that is as strange and wondrous as it is relatable. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Kiran Pandey

Kiran Pandey

Reviews 3 minute read
Langdon sings, arms outstretched in a warm spotlight, with 8 ensemble members, playing instruments, lit in blue around him.

Delaware Theatre Company presents Man of La Mancha

Music, morality, and multiplicity

Delaware Theatre Company closes its 43rd season with a thoughtful, inventive, and dazzling rendition of the classic musical with the triple-decker story, Man of La Mancha. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 4 minute read
Ramona and Metcalf, standing together looking grimly confused and wary in a high-school hallway.

The Philadelphia Film Society presents SpringFest 2023

Coming soon: reviews of Somewhere in Queens, Polite Society, and Sisu

This year’s PFS SpringFest featured 18 films in three days, including Ray Romano’s directorial debut, genre-bending action in Polite Society, and Sisu, about a violent rout of the Nazis in Finland. Stephen Silver reviews.
Stephen Silver

Stephen Silver

Reviews 3 minute read
Vaughn & Thomas, Black male actors, dance together. Vaughn has an afro & red button-down; Thomas is bald & wears a blazer.

Inis Nua Theatre Company presents Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hymn

Brotherly love

A pair of strangers learn to be brothers in Hymn, a tender two-hander from Inis Nua Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
Wallace, smiling with hands on hips, in board shorts & a Detroit football jersey, confronts Foy-Coles, in glasses & plaid.

InterAct Theatre Company presents Francisca da Silveira’s pay no worship

At home in the Atlantic

InterAct presents the world premiere of pay no worship, a play about very different cousins on a small Cape Verde island who grapple with the effects of climate change, despite too often being left out of the global conversation. Krista Mar reviews.
Krista Mar

Krista Mar

Reviews 3 minute read
Evocative red, pink, blue, turquoise, and black image of young Kahlo, looking down thoughtfully, wearing chunky jewelry.

Delaware Art Museum presents Our Red Planet and Estampas de la Raza

One museum, two journeys

This spring, Delaware Art Museum boasts a pair of striking but very different exhibitions: Our Red Planet: Anna Bogatin Ott and Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 5 minute read
An oval shape of complex curving and connected geometric lines in a dusty reddish-brown tone.

Woodmere Art Museum presents JUST IN: Form + Space, Near + Far

An abstraction appetizer

A tight selection of abstract artists and works make an inviting but not necessarily cohesive show in Woodmere’s JUST IN: Form + Space, Near + Far. Jake Foster reviews.
Jake Foster

Jake Foster

Reviews 3 minute read
Kanagawa, in denim shirt and suspenders, manipulates an emotive cow puppet, which Thompson, in a green jacket, sings to.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus presents the national tour of Into the Woods

Lost in the forest

The national tour of Into the Woods loses the thread of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairytale parable. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
Liyou poses with hands near their head, in a voluminous white outfit. They're outdoors below a blue sky with white clouds.

Asian Arts Initiative presents Lucy Liyou in concert

A short trip with a sonic experimentalist

A genre-straddling musical performance from experimental artist Lucy Liyou makes a quick stop at Asian Arts Initiative. Aaron Pond reviews.
Aaron Pond

Aaron Pond

Reviews 3 minute read
Ohse, a white woman with her back to the camera, in a voluminous nightdress, opens a window with large wooden shutters.

OperaDelaware and Opera Baltimore present Verdi’s La traviata

Scaling opera's peak

In a world of operas known for romance and tragedy, La traviata really delivers the romance and tragedy in this co-production by OperaDelaware and Opera Baltimore. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 4 minute read