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The Wilma Theater and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company present Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s The Comeuppance
The reunion from hell
The Comeuppance at the Wilma considers every weighty topic under the sun as a quintet of unhappy Millennials gather for their 20th high-school reunion, but too often the stakes feel frustratingly low. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Theatre Ariel presents Maya Arad Yasur’s Amsterdam
Layered narratives
The first mainstage production in over a decade for Theatre Ariel fronts a historic bill with contemporary perspective. Josh Herren reviews.
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The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents Shared Vision: Portraits from the CCH Pounder-Koné Collection
Honoring Black women who look up and out
In an exhibition curated exclusively for AAMP, arts patron and prolific actor CCH Pounder opens up her significant and uplifting portrait collection for Philly audiences. An Nichols reviews.
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Brandywine Museum of Art presents The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
A rare gallery glimpse of iconic woodworks
Wood comes alive in The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick, now on view at the Brandywine Museum of Art. It’s a rare chance to see the interdisciplinary artist’s full oeuvre outside his historic home. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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Lantern Theater Company presents Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor
A fresh take on Othello and the racial politics of American theater
Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor, which follows a Black actor reluctantly auditioning for an Othello helmed by a white director, gets its Philly premiere at the Lantern. An Nichols reviews.
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The Center for Emerging Visual Artists presents Thesentür/The Thinker: Nina Simone and the Politics of Music
Lines of inquiry
A new solo exhibition by Philly conceptual artist and writer Theodore A. Harris, inspired by Nina Simone’s history with the Curtis Institute, questions the ways that art, artists, patrons, and money are bound together. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
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BalletX presents it 2024 Fall Series with Marguerite Donlon, Matthew Neenan, and Takehiro Ueyama
A Fall Series for the future
BalletX kicks off its 19th season with more dancers, a new venue, and works by Marguerite Donlon, Matthew Neenan, and Takehiro Ueyama. The works showcase the quality and range of the company but lack programmatic cohesion. Melissa Strong reviews.
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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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