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Philly Fringe 2025: Philly’s Medicare for All Movement presents Healthcare Is a Human Right!
Democracy demands universal healthcare
Artists from Philly’s Medicare for All Movement volunteer their time for a Fringe performance including video, puppetry, poetry, song, and audience participation to explore America’s healthcare crisis. SaraKay Smullens reviews.
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Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls, by Robert Edwards
The biggest Civil War heist that you've never heard of
In his new graphic novel, Robert Edwards reveals a Civil War hero largely forgotten today. Robert Smalls, an enslaved Black man, pulled off one of the war’s biggest heists, freeing his whole family in the process. Constance Garcia-Barrio reviews.
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Winterthur Museum presents Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery
A 19th-century activist’s vision becomes a reality today
In the 1850s, writer and activist William J. Wilson imagined a museum exhibition that honored Black history and culture. More than 150 years later, Winterthur makes his dream a reality. An Nichols reviews.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s Moving Backwards
One step forward, two steps back?
The PMA has acquired an interdisciplinary installation by the Swiss/German creator duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Moving Backwards was first commissioned in 2019 and feels even more relevant now, especially here. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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NoName Gallery presents Next Levels: The Art of Healing
A pop of color on Germantown Avenue
A pop art exhibition at Chestnut Hill’s NoName Gallery draws artists who hail from Philly, the Lehigh Valley, Manila, Mexico, and Venezuela. It’s a refreshing diversion for an oppressively hot summer. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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PSF presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in rep
Thrilling metatheatrics
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival stages Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in repertory productions, each play illuminating the other. Kiran Pandey reviews.
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Shakespeare in Clark Park presents Jay Eddy’s A Bottom’s Dream
Shakespeare, but make it gay(er)
Shakespeare in Clark Park celebrates its 20th year with an original queer musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that feels both nostalgic and contemporary. It runs through Sunday, July 27. Josh Herren reviews.
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Delaware Shakespeare presents Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras, adapted by Liz Filios and Tanaquil Márquez
“No one belongs until everyone belongs”
A new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, onstage at Wilmington’s historic Rockwood Park, asks what would happen if Sebastian and Viola washed up in a modern-day country sans documentation. An Nichols reviews.
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BalletX presents its 2025 Summer Series, featuring choreographers Amy Hall Garner, Noelle Kayser, and Matthew Neenan
A preview, a premiere, and a revival
For this year’s summer series, BalletX presents an exciting excerpt from Amy Hall Garner’s upcoming Petrushka, a premiere by choreographic fellow Noelle Kayser, and a celebration of Matthew Neenan’s Last Glass. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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The Barnes Foundation presents From Paris to Provence: French Painting at the Barnes
Putting French artists in their place
With several Barnes galleries closed for refinishing, some of the museum’s 19th- and 20th-century masterpieces get a new configuration in From Paris to Provence: French Painting at the Barnes. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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