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Bonetti and Liao, in in richly textured jackets, sit next to each other in a friendly, intimate way.

Lantern Theater Company presents Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Present mirth and present laughter
Lantern Theater Company offers a delightfully comic and effortlessly romantic new production of Twelfth Night to close its season. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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A riot of Spiral Q works, including slogans like queerness is infinite, housing is a human right, & stop killing us, on fists

Grounds for Sculpture presents Spiral Q: The Parade

Power to the people
Flooding from 2021’s Hurricane Ida destroyed most of the archive from Spiral Q’s 27-year history of community art and advocacy, but enough remains for an urgent and engaging exhibition at New Jersey’s Grounds for Sculpture. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 3 minute read
On a pillared chancel with a golden mural backdrop, 13 musicians and singers, all dressed in black, perform.

Piffaro presents Entre dos Álamos

Rare, beautiful music from 17th- and 18th-century South America
Piffaro closes its season with Entre dos Álamos, a musical trip to South America including Spanish and Indigenous texts and music, proving that great music has always been created everywhere. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 5 minute read
Stahler, in overalls, concentrates on a paper bag. Shiner gestures at him & Passer sits. They wear battered mismatched suits

Hedgerow Theatre presents Juliette Dunn’s The Puzzle

Portraying the lives of non-speaking people
Hedgerow marks its 100th season with the world premiere of Juliette Dunn’s The Puzzle, which reveals complex inner worlds for all of us, whether or not we communicate by speaking. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Reviews 5 minute read
On a battered field of gray rectangles, weird white mechanical-looking structures of hard-to-identify parts stand and float.

The Print Center presents Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce

Machines dream in a post-worker world
The Print Center presents Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce, a surreal mixed-media exhibition about work, industry, power, and people. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Emily Schilling

Emily Schilling

Reviews 3 minute read
In beautiful church clothes, the characters (all Black except for one white man) sit on pews with different avid expressions.

Bristol Riverside Theatre presents Douglas Lyons’s Chicken & Biscuits

Nothing new at the family funeral
Chicken & Biscuits at Bristol Riverside Theatre gathers common tropes of the family funeral genre, but its performances and design meld comedy and drama for a fun family night. An Nichols reviews.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Reviews 3 minute read
Smiling and wearing a black jacket, Nezet-Seguin conducts, with the heads of a few musicians visible in the foreground.

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Gabriela Lena Frank and Hector Berlioz

Mastering symphonic forces
The Philadelphia Orchestra gives its first full rendition of composer-in-residence Gabriela Lena Frank’s Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra, and a thrilling rendition of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14. Linda Holt reviews.
Linda Holt

Linda Holt

Reviews 3 minute read
St. Clair, in a gray suit, and Dickinson, in a red dress, holding a fan, pose thoughtfully on low chairs onstage.

McCarter Theatre presents Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky

What do we lose, when our folks “escape?"
Josephine Baker presides in spirit over McCarter’s new production of Blues for an Alabama Sky, in which friends in a 1930s Harlem tenement ask what we gain and lose when we stay or leave. Jeannine Cook reviews.
Jeannine A. Cook

Jeannine A. Cook

Reviews 3 minute read
Six performers in mid-step on stage, their left legs parallel to the floor, right legs hover off the floor pointing down

The Lady Hoofers present On Tap

Something old, something new
The all-women dance troupe taps into the old and familiar and blends it with new and refreshing in this year’s edition of On Tap. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
Camille Bacon-Smith

Camille Bacon-Smith

Reviews 4 minute read
Exterior view of the tall, white, pillared, historic, tile-roofed Venice church on a canal. People fill the sidewalk in front

Tempesta di Mare presents The Women Behind the Screen – The Sensational Female Musicians of Venice’s Orphanages

The hidden women who rivaled Vivaldi
Tempesta di Mare explores the music of Baroque Venetian charitable institutions that were famous for their vocal and instrumental ensembles, made up of brilliant women artists who were hidden from public life. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 4 minute read