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

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

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

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

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

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.

Stephen Silver

Apr 17, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Inis Nua Theatre Company presents Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hymn

Brotherly love

A pair of strangers learn to be brothers in Hymn, a tender two-hander from Inis Nua Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Apr 17, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read

InterAct Theatre Company presents Francisca da Silveira’s pay no worship

At home in the Atlantic

InterAct presents the world premiere of pay no worship, a play about very different cousins on a small Cape Verde island who grapple with the effects of climate change, despite too often being left out of the global conversation. Krista Mar reviews.

Krista Mar

Apr 11, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Delaware Art Museum presents Our Red Planet and Estampas de la Raza

One museum, two journeys

This spring, Delaware Art Museum boasts a pair of striking but very different exhibitions: Our Red Planet: Anna Bogatin Ott and Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Apr 11, 2023 · Reviews · 5 minute read

Woodmere Art Museum presents JUST IN: Form + Space, Near + Far

An abstraction appetizer

A tight selection of abstract artists and works make an inviting but not necessarily cohesive show in Woodmere’s JUST IN: Form + Space, Near + Far. Jake Foster reviews.

Jake Foster

Apr 10, 2023 · Reviews · 3 minute read