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Lieberman, a white woman with brown hair, leans on a shiny wooden bar with a golden pint of beer at her right elbow.

Inis Nua Theatre Company presents Yasmine Akram’s 10 Dates with Mad Mary

A date worth keeping
Inis Nua’s Pop-Up Play in a Pub series returns with new leadership, and the lively American premiere of 10 Dates with Mad Mary. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
A dim field of blossoms, the sun behind the horizon tinting the sky orange.

Arthur Ross Gallery presents John E. Dowell: Paths to Freedom

Feeling is believing
John E. Dowell's exhibit photographs and soundscapes cotton fields at night, conjuring the spirits of his enslaved ancestors. Pamela E. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
6 Black men playing 1940s Air Force members, in tan military uniforms, pose onstage in front of a blue-lit backdrop & US flag

Delaware Theatre Company presents Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee

A brilliant brotherhood
Delaware Theatre Company mounts writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee, a show about the men who trained to become the US Air Force’s first Black pilots. Jeannine Cook reviews.
Jeannine A. Cook

Jeannine A. Cook

Reviews 5 minute read
Tang Wei, looking tearful & defensive, faces Park Hae-il, who looks inquisitive, with distant mountains in the backdrop.

The Philadelphia Film Festival presents Decision to Leave, The Banshees of Inisherin, and Armageddon Time

PFF celebrates 31 years
Three films featured at this year’s Philadelphia Film Festival, which runs through Sunday, October 30, 2022, are headed to local cinemas soon. Stephen Silver reviews.
Stephen Silver

Stephen Silver

Reviews 5 minute read
Apple, auburn curly hair pinned up, leans smiling over Brannau, who gazes dreamily in a pocket mirror, one hand on her cheek

Arden Theatre Company presents Tennessee Willliams’s The Glass Menagerie

Broken glass
The Glass Menagerie is a delicate masterpiece, but falls flat due to misunderstanding in the Arden’s season opener production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read

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30 lenses of various sizes, resembling bubbles, grouped together in front of a museum window, inviting a look through them

The Delaware Contemporary presents Through a Glass, Darkly

Stop taking glass for granted
This wandering, wide-ranging exhibition at the Delaware Contemporary is a rare extravaganza of diverse works all in one medium: glass. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 4 minute read
Dynamic boxing scene onstage, Amira’s pale muscled body flies back as if punched by Parker, who's in US-flag pattern shorts

The Walnut Street Theatre presents Rocky the Musical

Predictable entertainment
The short-lived Broadway musical adapted from the iconic film comes to the Walnut Street Theatre eight years after its limited Broadway run. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Reviews 5 minute read
Detailed black-&-white print of a large, low, run-down house by a tree in a barren landscape, & a tiny human figure outside

Arcadia University’s Spruance Gallery presents Proto-Feminism in the Print Studio

Women make their mark
A new exhibition of mid-20th-century woman printmakers at Arcadia University traces a burgeoning feminist movement at New York print studio Atelier 17. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
A pair of flamenco dancers in sevillana dresses perform with musicians behind them on stage.

Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca present Ni Bien ni Mal, Todo lo Contrario at Plays & Players

The power and passion of Flamenco
After previewing the show's workshop in the spring, Camille Bacon-Smith reviews this fall's new performance from Soledad Barrio and company.
Camille Bacon-Smith

Camille Bacon-Smith

Reviews 4 minute read
The three actors play elderly male fishermen, sitting on portable stools and holding large fishing poles between their legs.

The Wilma Theater presents Tall Order’s Those with 2 Clocks

Comfort and confrontation
More a work of theater than a play, Tall Order’s Those with 2 Clocks, now onstage at the Wilma, is funny, provocative, and beautifully designed. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 3 minute read