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The BSR Weekly Arts and Cultural Roundup, September 7-13, 2022
Picks for this year's Fringe Festival
Kyle V. Hiller makes his picks for this year's Fringe Festival.
Previews
4 minute read
Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series presents Annie Dorsen’s Algorithmic Theater
Artistic intelligence
What happens when the algorithm determines your theater experience? Dara McBride previews Annie Dorsen's retrospective as it comes to Philadelphia for the first time.
Previews
2 minute read
The BSR Podcast: RestART with BSR, episode 6, Tiny Dynamite
The arts are back! Learn about the return with Tiny Dynamite
BSR is excited to team with the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's RestART Initiative on this special podcast episode about Tiny Dynamite.
Podcast
1 minute read
Aurora Classical of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia presents “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!)
From screen to stage to screen
Recording a Fringe performance means you can air it again in future festivals. But as “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!) shows, that’s not always a good thing. Jill Ivey reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
A gastronomic guide to the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Nourishing art
Chances are if we missed being in the theater, we also missed meeting up for a bite. Many artists of this year’s Fringe are bringing us together over food. Alaina Johns rounds up.
Previews
4 minute read
Theatre with a View presents Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques’s The Grown-Ups
Back to summer camp
The Grown-Ups, a thrilling new play developed in a Brooklyn backyard during the pandemic, gets its Pennsylvania premiere at Pottstown’s Theatre with a View. Josh Herren reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
Theatre in the X presents Dreamgirls
Perfectly Philadelphia theater in the park
Theatre in the X brings its immersive, innovative take to the showbiz musical Dreamgirls at Malcolm X Park, celebrating Black artists and audiences. Josh Herren reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Shubert Organization present the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen
Truth without consequences
Once a cultural phenomenon, Dear Evan Hansen now feels manipulative and misguided as its national tour plays Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
Lexi Schreiber presents Fitting In: Tales of the Fat Ingénue
Bringing fat representation to the Philly stage
With her new solo show, Philly performer Lexi Schreiber asks why fat actors have to create and star in their own shows, instead of simply being cast in roles that already exist. Alaina Johns reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
People’s Light presents Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons
Gray divorcees
Grand Horizons at People’s Light explores the fallout from the end of a long marriage, but Bess Wohl’s boulevard comedy chooses cheap laughs over high stakes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read