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A view of the PMA installation of Tanya Goel’s Index 2015/2020. Strips of faint blue on the wall rise taller than a person

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from South Asia

Drawing from experience

This exhibition of spare yet complex, intimate, and nuanced works by South Asian artists explores disappearing traditions, language, loss, and a world of boundaries. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Mar 28, 2022 Reviews 6 minute read

A close-up on conductor Donald Nally, a bald white man, during a choir performance. He is smiling and wears a dark suitcoat.

The Crossing presents Stacy Garrop’s In a House Besieged

New music with a message

In its latest world-premiere program, the Crossing, Philadelphia’s superb chamber chorus, married radiant singing to words of stunning social and political relevance. Peter Burwasser reviews.

Peter Burwasser

Mar 28, 2022 Reviews 3 minute read

Nathanial Washington, on a dramatic blue-lit stage, plays the moment Lloyd Price first stepped up to the studio microphone.

People’s Light presents Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical

Oh-oh over and over

The world premiere of Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical sings an unsung entertainment hero at People’s Light. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Mar 24, 2022 Reviews 4 minute read

Ebony Pullum as Billie Holliday. She wears a black & white dress and sings passionately into a vintage mic under red light.

Curio Theatre Company presents Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill

God bless the child

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Curio Theatre offers a complex, entertaining portrait of Billie Holiday’s final Philadelphia performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Mar 24, 2022 Reviews 3 minute read

A scene from the play. An 8-person ensemble, some seated, some standing, all but one wearing white clothes and blindfolds.

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life Is a Dream

Poland, or anywhere else

Brenna Geffers and Felipe Vergara adapt a 17th-century Spanish classic to reflect our contemporary world of political turmoil and division. Kirsten Bowen reviews.

Kirsten Bowen

Mar 22, 2022 Reviews 3 minute read

A scene from the play, in 16th-century costume. Frank X puts his arms around Scallen and Hall, who look tenderly at him.

Lantern Theater Company presents Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons

A play for this season

Lantern Theater Company’s A Man for All Seasons, starring Frank X and Anthony Lawton, is an old-school historical drama that still proves its worth. Josh Herren reviews.

Josh Herren

Mar 22, 2022 Reviews 2 minute read

Yannick conducts the orchestra on the Verizon Hall stage. Three women singers stand at the front with mics and music stands.

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Kevin Puts’s The Hours

Keeping time for Virginia Woolf

The Hours, a new opera by Kevin Puts and librettist Greg Pierce, is the latest incarnation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, encompassing love, regret, creativity, mental illness, and the human capacity for forgiveness. Peter Burwasser reviews.

Peter Burwasser

Mar 21, 2022 Reviews 3 minute read

Two dancers sit back-to-back on the studio floor. The front dancer, and Asian woman, raises one arm straight up.

Crossing Paths Movement Collective presents its Philly premiere

Diverse paths in dance converge

Crossing Paths Movement Collective makes its Philadelphia premiere with works created by movement artists and choreographers Evalina “Wally” Carbonell, Sarah Carlson, Nick M. Daniels, and Malcolm Shute. Melissa Strong reviews.

Melissa Strong

Mar 21, 2022 Reviews 5 minute read

A scene from Lift. 6 people dance in unison in front of a wood pulpit with a cross. A gospel choir stands on risers at right

Penn Live Arts presents Rennie Harris’s Lifted

A prodigal son in dance

The latest full-length narrative dance from Rennie Harris is a sharp, athletic, emotional retelling of the biblical prodigal son. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.

Camille Bacon-Smith

Mar 21, 2022 Reviews 4 minute read

A richly colored nighttime watercolor of a 19th-century woman with red hair sitting at a desk, lit by a bright white candle

The Delaware Art Museum and Somerville Manning Gallery present Holly Trostle Brigham

Recovering the oeuvre of women forgotten

Fans of Philadelphia artist Holly Trostle Brigham, whose work elevates often-forgotten women, have a double opportunity to see her work: a show at the Delaware Museum of Art, and at Breck's Mill’s Somerville Manning Gallery. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Mar 14, 2022 Reviews 4 minute read