Museum for Art in Wood presents The Mashrabiya Project: Seeing through Space

New windows of perception

Six international artists explore the mashrabiya, widely used throughout the Islamic world as cooling structures, or boundaries—between public and private life, men and women, women and visibility. Emily B. Schilling reviews.

Emily Schilling

May 01, 2023 · Reviews · 4 minute read

PHILADANCO! presents Moving... Beyond Forward

Technique and soul

Moving… Beyond Forward, an evening of four exciting works at the Kimmel’s Perelman Theater, highlighted longtime PHILADANCO! creators with a mix of premieres and reimagined older work. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.

Camille Bacon-Smith

Apr 25, 2023 · Reviews · 4 minute read

Pennsbury Manor presents Nathan Young’s nkwiluntàmën

Sounds of the Delaware

A new sound installation by Oklahoma-based interdisciplinary artist and Delaware Tribe of Indians member Nathan Young comes to Pennsbury Manor with a disappointing execution. Aaron Pond reviews.

Aaron Pond

Apr 25, 2023 · Reviews · 5 minute read

Lyric Fest presents The Metamorphosis of Plants: A Lieder Celebration for Earth Day

Goethe in the garden

For its first concert at Longwood Gardens, Lyric Fest honored Earth Day with a program inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s surprisingly sophisticated 1790 text The Metamorphosis of Plants. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Apr 24, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

“Like an old sweet song, the lasting time”

There’s a surprise in the staging of Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, which takes place just a few blocks from the venue that inspired it. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Apr 18, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read

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

Apr 18, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read

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

Apr 18, 2023 · Reviews · 4 minute read

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

Apr 17, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read

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

Apr 17, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read

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

Apr 11, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read