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The Delaware Art Museum presents In Conversation: Will Wilson
A new Indigenous archive
An important new exhibition of portraits by Diné photographer Will Wilson at the Delaware Art Museum is both strongly historic and strikingly contemporary. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things, by Shannon Frost Greenstein
The sound of my anxieties
Philadelphia writer Shannon Frost Greenstein’s new poetry collection, These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things, chronicles a 21st-century life in which terror is part of daily existence. C.M. Crockford reviews.
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Exploring Philly Nature: A Guide for All Four Seasons, by Bernard S. Brown
The wild things are here
Philadelphians don’t have to leave the city—even its most urban corners—to enjoy a wealth of wildlife. Exploring Philly Nature, a new book by Bernard S. Brown, is an accessible and eye-opening guide. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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Delaware Shakespeare presents The Tempest
Something rich and strange
Delaware Shakespeare celebrates its 20th year of the Bard in Rockwood Park with a strange and satisfying production of The Tempest. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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The Kimmel Cultural Campus presents the national tour of Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Shockingly relevant
A new, nonlinear retelling of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, stopping in Philly on its national tour, makes us face an America that never really changed. Marta Rusek reviews.
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BalletX presents its 2022 Summer Series
Dancing from the heart
BalletX returns to the Wilma for world premieres by three star choreographers: New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, TITOYAYA director Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, and Alvin Ailey resident choreographer Jamar Roberts. Melissa Strong reviews.
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Winterthur Museum presents From Winterthur to the White House: Jacqueline Kennedy and Henry Francis du Pont
How the White House became an American museum
A new Winterthur exhibition revives the historic collaboration that turned the White House into the museum it is today, thanks to the vision of Jacqueline Kennedy and Henry Francis du Pont. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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Act II Playhouse presents Together Off-Broadway: Merman & Martin
You gotta have “it”
In its new revue, Act II Playhouse takes on two legends of the American theater, Mary Martin and Ethel Merman, with mixed success. Wendy Rosenfield reviews.
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The Delaware Art Museum presents Stan Smokler: Steel in Flux
A galvanizing show
Sculptor Stan Smokler, who has worked in Chester County for more than 20 years, comes to the Delaware Art Museum with Steel in Flux, whose found-object abstractions are almost impossible not to touch. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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People’s Light presents Paul Osborn’s The Vinegar Tree
American intellectual comedy
People’s Light revives The Vinegar Tree, a rarely staged comedy of manners by a playwright who was America’s answer to Shaw and Coward. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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