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Next Thursday (April 16), I'm happy to be appearing with our friends over at Blue Stoop for my upcoming "Thursdays on the Stoop" (TOTS) class, Building a Positive Relationship with Editors. It runs from 4-5pm ET, it's on Zoom, and it's free! You just need to register. I'll share my own editorial process and explain the dos and don'ts of building good relationships with editors, as well as what a good editor owes you. Hope you can join us!

This week, our writers are covering a new production of Jelly's Last Jam out at Bristol Riverside Theatre (critic An Nichols deals fairly with her reactions to the show), and Seeking Profit and Power at the Independence Seaport Museum, where reviewer Pamela J. Forsythe grapples with the historic audacity of early American sailors facing an 8,000-mile trip on the open ocean in order to bolster their new nation's trade with China. Gail Obenreder enjoys a new exhibition that subverts the traditions of still life at Brandywine Museum of Art, and Krista Mar visits an important new exhibition documenting the No Arena movement carried by local Asian American activists and their allies to protect Philly's Chinatown. And I'm sad the run was so short (only through last Sunday), because the show is SO good, but feel free to check out Cameron Kelsall's review of the new Sound of Music tour: he spent the show "grinning ear-to-ear like a schoolboy." It's on tour all year, so maybe you can catch it in another city.

In case you missed it: BSR writers speak up about our recent Readers Decide campaign. And Philly has become an anti-fascist sticker gallery.

Next week we've got more reviews coming your way, a preview of April's Philly Theatre Week, and reporting on major changes to the PA arts funding landscape. Thanks for sticking with us!

Alaina Johns
BSR editor-in-chief