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5 ensemble members onstage after dark, in dynamic poses threatening a swordfight, bathed in pink and blue light.

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.

Gail Obenreder

Jul 19, 2022 Reviews 4 minute read

Atticus, with gray hair and a tan suit, speaks to Scout, with short brown hair and denim overalls. She looks worried.

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.

Marta Rusek

Jul 19, 2022 Reviews 4 minute read

A male & female dancer facing each other with hands joined, woman with one leg pointed up, both with their free arm extended

BalletX presents its 2022 Summer Series

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.

Melissa Strong

Jul 18, 2022 Reviews 5 minute read

A black & white photo of Kennedy, standing at the bottom of Winterthur’s grand curving stairway, looking admiringly upward

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.

Gail Obenreder

Jul 12, 2022 Reviews 4 minute read

Beck and Gafgen, in spangled red gowns, feather headdresses, and white gloves, pose in unison with arms flung out diagonally.

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.

Wendy Rosenfield

Jul 11, 2022 Reviews 3 minute read

Graceful abstract 49-inch-high steel sculpture. Lines tipped by small balls arch in many directions from a rectangular frame

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.

Gail Obenreder

Jul 11, 2022 Reviews 3 minute read

Scene from the show. Zinkel sits and Lamm leans on an ornate couch, both looking to the side, Zinkel blissful, Lamm skeptical

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.

Gail Obenreder

Jul 05, 2022 Reviews 4 minute read

The book cover. The title, in large white letters, is superimposed on a painting of a woman’s face.

Five-Part Invention, by Andrea J. Buchanan

Parents are people, too

Trauma and abuse, as well as the practice of healing, reverberate through five generations of women in Five-Part Invention, a new novel by Philadelphia writer Andrea J. Buchanan. Kirsten Bowen reviews.

Kirsten Bowen

Jul 05, 2022 Reviews 3 minute read

Fine-lined black-and-white print of a close-up view of an amaryllis flower, resembling a lily.

Penn’s Ross Gallery presents From Studio to Doorstep: Associated American Artists Prints, 1934-2000

Democratizing American art

This new exhibition of diverse and notable 19th-century prints explores an important corner of American art, when a Depression-era brainstorm made buying fine art accessible to the people. Pamela Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Jun 30, 2022 Reviews 5 minute read