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The musicians, all in formal wear, stand in a line on the venue’s chancel. They are smiling and holding their instruments.

Dolce Suono presents Great Arrangements

Variations beyond Bach

Great Arrangements by Dolce Suono made for a compelling afternoon of chamber music, featuring arrangements of well-known and less-well-known works that differed from the composer’s original vision. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Dec 10, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

About a dozen dancers in fishnets, prints, fringe, fur, leather & sunglasses strike the same pose with arms joyfully aloft

PHILADANCO! presents Our Voices, Our Choices…This is Us!

Another emotionally powerful performance

PHILADANCO! honored director Lee Daniels, an alum of the company’s classes, at a program showcasing four Black women choreographers, including company favorites as well as rising star Martha Nichols. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.

Camille Bacon-Smith

Dec 10, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Black, wearing a shtreimel, with a Black boy in Orthodox Jewish attire, leans over another Orthodox man writing on a scroll.

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History presents Humans of Judaism

The popular online platform honoring the diversity of modern Jewish life comes to museum walls

The Weitzman on Independence Mall honors the diversity of the modern Jewish experience with a new exhibition based on the popular social-media platform Humans of Judaism. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Dec 10, 2024 Reviews 5 minute read

O’Hare and Ramirez sit on the stage in simple but fanciful costumes, looking joyfully upward as Ramirez points to the sky.

Arden Children’s Theatre presents Douglas Irvine’s adaptation of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan

Welcoming thrills for young audiences

The Arden’s stage adaptation of Peter Pan, featuring some of Philly’s favorite actors under award-winning director Whit MacLaughlin, holds youngsters rapt. Jill Brooke reviews.

Jill Brooke

Dec 09, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Cherin and Eisenhower, in luxurious costumes, bow to each other with a huge flourish in a scene set backstage.

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Cole Porter and Sam and Bella Spewack’s Kiss Me, Kate

Kate is still great

Quintessence Theatre Group scores a hit with a new production of the Golden Age musical Kiss Me, Kate. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Dec 09, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Rouleau, in a green velvet jacket and shorts with green & yellow striped tights, sings ecstatically in Santa’s workshop.

Walnut Street Theatre presents ELF: The Broadway Musical

Singing loud for all to hear

A beloved holiday film comes to the Walnut stage with ELF: The Broadway Musical. But does this spirited production offer anything new for fans of the movie? nat čermák reviews.

nat čermák

Dec 03, 2024 Reviews 2 minute read

Minich’s multimedia piece has a blue silhouette of person at the center of a classical-looking halo, described in the article

PAFA presents Making Strange: Sacred Imagery and the Self

Spiritual art … with a twist

A new exhibition at PAFA spanning the 19th century to today (but rooted in a movement launched in the 1500s) explores religious imagery that has been distorted to signify the artists’ divergent views. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Dec 02, 2024 Reviews 5 minute read

A smiling man helps a kindergarten-aged girl affix a little paper note to a wooden rack with many other notes.

The Please Touch Museum presents XOXO: An Exhibit About Love & Forgiveness

A chance for Philly youngsters to explore compassion

XOXO, a traveling installation now at the Please Touch Museum, welcomes youngsters for a variety of displays and activities exploring their feelings and compassion for others. Jill Brooke reviews.

Jill Brooke

Nov 26, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Gallery view of entrance, a large panel with an illustration of laughing people in glamorous 1920s costume party garb.

The Delaware Art Museum presents Jazz Age Illustration

Illustrators deserve to be on museum walls

In the first half of the 20th century, the music and culture of America’s Jazz Age drove major social change. Now, a new exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum captures the era’s masterful illustrators. Gail Obenreder reviews.