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Weinman, dressed as Child, holds a small dog in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, a person in a facemask behind her

Aurora Classical of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia presents “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!)

From screen to stage to screen
Recording a Fringe performance means you can air it again in future festivals. But as “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!) shows, that’s not always a good thing. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 3 minute read
Holly Romano’s ‘Noodle Art,’ a color photo that feels like a snapshot of a child’s mealtime, described in the article.

Woodmere Art Museum presents The Photo Review Best of Show

The magic of accidents
A juried selection of photographs from under-represented artists at Woodmere Art Museum champions the creativity of older, more mercurial art forms. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 4 minute read
View of about fifty people sitting in small rows around a campfire at night, lit by additional yellow string lights above.

Theatre with a View presents Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques’s The Grown-Ups

Back to summer camp
The Grown-Ups, a thrilling new play developed in a Brooklyn backyard during the pandemic, gets its Pennsylvania premiere at Pottstown’s Theatre with a View. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read
Full orchestra onstage at SPAC, all in white shirts. They appear tiny, in front of hundreds of silhouetted audience members.

Following the Philadelphia Orchestra to its summer residency in Saratoga Springs, NY

It’s their orchestra, too
After a season of covering the Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall, music critic Cameron Kelsall followed it to Saratoga Springs, New York. Programs spanning Beethoven to Barber and Valerie Coleman set a high standard for summer performances.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
Mitchell, Benson & Byrd, in matching pink dresses, lean smiling by Xavier-Mack, spreading his arms in a silver glitter jacket

Theatre in the X presents Dreamgirls

Perfectly Philadelphia theater in the park
Theatre in the X brings its immersive, innovative take to the showbiz musical Dreamgirls at Malcolm X Park, celebrating Black artists and audiences. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read
Norman, a young white man in striped shirt & cast on one arm, sits in profile on a bed, under a bright spotlight in the dark.

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Shubert Organization present the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen

Truth without consequences
Once a cultural phenomenon, Dear Evan Hansen now feels manipulative and misguided as its national tour plays Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
Scene from the show: photo from the back of the audience shows Lexi singing joyfully in a pink dress, against a red backdrop.

Lexi Schreiber presents Fitting In: Tales of the Fat Ingénue

Bringing fat representation to the Philly stage
With her new solo show, Philly performer Lexi Schreiber asks why fat actors have to create and star in their own shows, instead of simply being cast in roles that already exist. Alaina Johns reviews.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Reviews 4 minute read
Book cover. Title, in alternating black, yellow, & red text, over a vintage black & white photo of a political rally crowd.

If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia, edited by James Wolfinger

The rise of Philly’s Black political identity
A new book from editor James Wolfinger explores the rise of a Black political identity in Philadelphia, from the industrial influx of World War I to the Goode, Street, and Nutter administrations. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 6 minute read
Scene from the play: the actors face each other with melancholy expressions, holding a cardboard U-Haul box between them.

People’s Light presents Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons

Gray divorcees
Grand Horizons at People’s Light explores the fallout from the end of a long marriage, but Bess Wohl’s boulevard comedy chooses cheap laughs over high stakes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
Scene from Fences. All 5 adult cast members sit or stand on the back porch of a 2-story brick home, flanked by 2 large trees

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents August Wilson’s Fences

Uneven ‘Fences’
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s Fences has been waiting in the wings since 2020. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read