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Two laptops in front of a black wall. Hanging screens read: "typing and talking. I am not a chatterbot."

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.

Dara McBride

Previews 2 minute read
the 3 actors in Regency costumes, a white woman, a white man, & a Black woman, sit in a row, with different expressions

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.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

Podcast 1 minute read
Weinman, dressed as Child, holds a small dog in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, a person in a facemask behind her

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.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 3 minute read
Sobelle holds a wineglass, toasting. Spaghetti glops on his head, his mouth full of greens. Fruits arranged in the foreground

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.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Previews 4 minute read
View of about fifty people sitting in small rows around a campfire at night, lit by additional yellow string lights above.

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.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read
Mitchell, Benson & Byrd, in matching pink dresses, lean smiling by Xavier-Mack, spreading his arms in a silver glitter jacket

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.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read
Norman, a young white man in striped shirt & cast on one arm, sits in profile on a bed, under a bright spotlight in the dark.

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.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
Scene from the show: photo from the back of the audience shows Lexi singing joyfully in a pink dress, against a red backdrop.

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.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Reviews 4 minute read
Scene from the play: the actors face each other with melancholy expressions, holding a cardboard U-Haul box between them.

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.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
Scene from Fences. All 5 adult cast members sit or stand on the back porch of a 2-story brick home, flanked by 2 large trees

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents August Wilson’s Fences

Uneven ‘Fences’
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s Fences has been waiting in the wings since 2020. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read