The BSR Weekly Arts and Culture Roundup, March 26-April 1, 2026

Flora After
March 25-29
Temple Contemporary, 2001 North 13th Street

Flora After explores how traces of US colonial rule in the Philippines remain embedded in Philadelphia archives and collections, and reimagines them through an immersive video installation about Filipino medicinal plants and mythology.

Orisha/Santos: An Artistic Interpretation of the Seven African Powers
Through April 4, 2026
Taller Puertorriqueno, 2600 North 5th Street

Jorge Luis Rodríguez’s exhibition depicts how African-descended people—enslaved and free—sustained their cultures and spiritual expressions through syncretism. The exhibition is closing next week, and a closing reception will be held on Saturday, March 28 at 1pm.

Can’t Forget About You
Through April 5, 2026
The Drake Theatre, 302 South Hicks Street

Inis Nua Theatre Company presents the American premiere of Can’t Forget About You. Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the play begins with a chance meeting in a café where twenty-something Stevie locks eyes with forty-something Martha, kicking off an unlikely romance that Steve’s mother and older sister fiercely disapprove.

Witch
March 27-April 11
Players Club of Swarthmore, 614 Fairview Road, Swarthmore

Jen Silverman’s dark comedy romance comes to the PCS stage, asking the question “how much is a soul worth when hope is hard to find?” In the quiet village of Edmonton, an irresistibly charming devil named Scratch arrives with a simple offer: he will grant the townspeople their deepest desires in exchange for their souls. For Elizabeth Sawyer, an outsider branded a witch, proves far more difficult to sway.

Botany of Nations: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery
March 28-February 14, 2027
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Botany of Nations is a new exhibit that retraces the journey of Lewis and Clark while gaining an understanding of Indigenous traditional knowledge of the plants of North America. Showcasing cultural heritage artifacts like plant specimens, maps, journals, and more, the exhibit looks to include the voices of Native Nations and reframe the prevailing account of the Corps of Discovery.

Africa’s Cultural Landmarks
Sunday, March 29, 1-4pm
Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

African’s Cultural Landmarks is a series of short documentary films examining some of African’s most notable cultural landscapes. The film, directed by Sosena Solomon who lectures at UPenn and at Community College of Philadelphia, will screen free and is open to the public.

The Wizard of Dreams and Nightmares
Sunday, March 29, 4pm
The Venice Island Performing Arts Theater, 7 Lock Street

Think The Wizard of Oz with a Philly cultural lens and you have The Wizard of Dreams and Nightmares, a musical following Theordore, a South Philly kid, and his home girl Toni, who are swept away in a storm to the urban fantasy land of Dreams and Nightmares, where they seek the powerful Wizard to return home.

The World According to Sound
Monday, March 30, 7pm
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street

The touring audio project about the power of attentive listening visits West Philly next week. For one hour, you’ll sit in total darkness, surrounded by loudspeakers—hearing sounds like the vibrations of the Golden Gate Bridge, the footsteps of ants, recordings made a century ago, under a sand dune, in the middle of a choir in a church built in the sixth century, and more.