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Over two dozen ensemble members on a blue and orange-lit stage, some on an asymmetrical riser at front with lightbulbs under

Opera Philadelphia presents Puccini’s La Bohème

Puccini in reverse

Opera Philadelphia’s new production of La Bohème reverses the order of the classic opera, beginning with tragedy and progressing toward love. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

May 01, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Gallery view of Mashrabiya #9: several diamond and rectangular-shaped wooden lattices joined to hang as one large piece.

Museum for Art in Wood presents The Mashrabiya Project: Seeing through Space

Six international artists explore the mashrabiya, widely used throughout the Islamic world as cooling structures, or boundaries—between public and private life, men and women, women and visibility. Emily B. Schilling reviews.

Emily Schilling

May 01, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Poster outside the venue shows black & white headshots of 9 PHILADANCO dancers.

PHILADANCO! presents Moving... Beyond Forward

Technique and soul

Moving… Beyond Forward, an evening of four exciting works at the Kimmel’s Perelman Theater, highlighted longtime PHILADANCO! creators with a mix of premieres and reimagined older work. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.

Camille Bacon-Smith

Apr 25, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

A view from Pennsbury: a verdant lawn with large leafy green trees runs toward the blue river on a sunny day.

Pennsbury Manor presents Nathan Young’s nkwiluntàmën

Sounds of the Delaware

A new sound installation by Oklahoma-based interdisciplinary artist and Delaware Tribe of Indians member Nathan Young comes to Pennsbury Manor with a disappointing execution. Aaron Pond reviews.

Aaron Pond

Apr 25, 2023 Reviews 5 minute read

The Lyric Fest stage at Longwood Gardens, with a piano under purple lights. Fern-like plant with red flowers line the stage.

Lyric Fest presents The Metamorphosis of Plants: A Lieder Celebration for Earth Day

Goethe in the garden

For its first concert at Longwood Gardens, Lyric Fest honored Earth Day with a program inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s surprisingly sophisticated 1790 text The Metamorphosis of Plants. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Apr 24, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Talese, a Black woman in white formal dress & a red lip & nails, sings passionately into a standing mic, hands on her middle.

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

“Like an old sweet song, the lasting time”

There’s a surprise in the staging of Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, which takes place just a few blocks from the venue that inspired it. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Apr 18, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Gliko in white feathers, stands in front of a circular blue-lit window. Rishard & Kidwell sit on a beanbag looking at Pierce.

Wilma Theater presents Nathan Alan Davis’s Eternal Life Part 1

The times we create

Eternal Life Part 1, in its world premiere at the Wilma, offers a vision of the near future that is as strange and wondrous as it is relatable. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Apr 18, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Langdon sings, arms outstretched in a warm spotlight, with 8 ensemble members, playing instruments, lit in blue around him.

Delaware Theatre Company presents Man of La Mancha

Music, morality, and multiplicity

Delaware Theatre Company closes its 43rd season with a thoughtful, inventive, and dazzling rendition of the classic musical with the triple-decker story, Man of La Mancha. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Apr 18, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Ramona and Metcalf, standing together looking grimly confused and wary in a high-school hallway.

The Philadelphia Film Society presents SpringFest 2023

Coming soon: reviews of Somewhere in Queens, Polite Society, and Sisu

This year’s PFS SpringFest featured 18 films in three days, including Ray Romano’s directorial debut, genre-bending action in Polite Society, and Sisu, about a violent rout of the Nazis in Finland. Stephen Silver reviews.