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Crammed together in consternation, wearing a furry animal mask, Renaissance garb, Guy Fawkes mask, and pig nose, respectively

Curio Theatre Company presents Tim Crouch & Spymonkey’s The Complete Deaths

The rest is silence

Three years into the coronavirus pandemic, Curio Theatre Company’s production of The Complete Deaths shows us that sometimes death can be a laughing matter. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Mar 21, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Rendered in charcoal, a single flailing human figure falls horizontally through white space, knees facing the viewer.

Twelve Gates Arts presents Numb Images

Undoing the visual tools of oppression

Three artists with roots in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Iran, offer reality checks on the stories we’re told in a powerful mixed-media exhibition at Twelve Gates Arts in Old City. Emily B. Schilling reviews.

Emily Schilling

Mar 21, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Gallery view: looking toward the end of a large room, set up as Mason describes in the text. Two people are sitting there.

ICA Philadelphia presents Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take

Somatic and spiritual

Carolyn Lazard examines accessibility, care, and interdependence, with an interdisciplinary installation at ICA that de-emphasizes sight in favor of many other senses. Hanae Mason reviews.

Hanae Mason

Mar 20, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Watercolor in gritty gray & brown tones: roof and chimney of an old stone house with a weathervane and birds flying overhead.

Brandywine Museum of Art presents Andrew Wyeth: Home Places

Wyeth’s most enduring legacy

This new exhibition studies the way Andrew Wyeth saw his favorite buildings, honoring the artist’s abstract work, as well as the better-known representational. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Mar 20, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

A detail of the painting, showing a waterfall coming from a dark cave, is reproduced in large scale right on the gallery wall

UPenn’s Arthur Ross Gallery presents At the Source: A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered

One painting, many stories

A painting by Gustave Courbet, a fascinating 19th-century French artist, was lost in a Philly basement for decades. Now it gets its due at Arthur Ross Gallery. Emily B. Schilling reviews.

Emily Schilling

Mar 14, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Ma, a single dancer in black on a dark stage, her face covered with a fan she holds in her mouth. She strikes an angular pose

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers presents KyLin’s Garden

KYL/D celebrates 25 years

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers celebrated its 25th anniversary with two world premieres by company artists, and four reimagined works by the founder, linking past, present, and future. Melissa Strong reviews.

Melissa Strong

Mar 14, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

Black & white photo shows the white family described in the article. There’s a high wall behind them with bushes at its base.

Philadelphia Museum of Art presents House of Photographs

In the eye of the collector

House of Photographs is a visual treasure that wraps visitors in the collectors' point of view, ranging from a microscope to a Brooklyn sidewalk, from French gardens to Chinese arbors to outer space. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Mar 13, 2023 Reviews 5 minute read

Onstage with chairs and tables, gray-haired Hargraves in shabby black suit & red-haired Quinn in beige blouse & green skirt

Irish Heritage Theatre presents Brian Friel’s The Bear and Afterplay

Chekhov with an Irish brogue

Brian Friel tackles the Russian master in The Bear and Afterplay, the latest double bill from Irish Heritage Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Mar 10, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Three actors conspiring in fanciful, somewhat creepy masks, two with hats and one with a wild gray curly wig.

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Shakespeare’s The Tempest

A well-masked effort

Quintessence Theatre Group combines creative casting, minimalistic design, and a whole lot of masks for its ambitious production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Mar 07, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Outside, in front of a pile of lemons, two mirrors capture Mukherji and her mother making a dual portrait.

The Print Center presents its 97th Annual International Competition

The Light Outside Home, and other works on trauma and memory

For its 97th Annual International Competition, the Print Center selected three artists out of 400 applicants. Each of them grapples with trauma, memory, and immigrant experiences. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Mar 07, 2023 Reviews 5 minute read