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Richly colored, detailed view of a garden with white pillars, a golden mountain sunset in the distance, all in stained glass

The Delaware Art Museum presents Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection

The pursuit of beauty

Prized Tiffany Studios works, from lamps and windows to humidors and fireplaces, transport Delaware Art Museum visitors to the American brilliance of the Gilded Age. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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A photo by Allan Sekula taken at an outdoor protest at night. A person tips their head back in distress, a hand to their face

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Waiting for Tear Gas

Eyes on uprisings

With Waiting for Tear Gas, the PMA displays more than 100 years of artists considering protest, with words and images that will resonate with many Philadelphians today. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
The book cover. Each letter of the title appears in a different color, next to an illustration of a hand pointing 1 finger up

True Biz, by Sara Nović

Real talk from the Deaf community

Philadelphia writer Sara Nović’s new novel follows the students and teachers of a school for the deaf, making the case that we all need a shared language. Kirsten Bowen reviews.
Kirsten Bowen

Kirsten Bowen

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Jose Andres and one other man hurry away from a just-landed helicopter. Andres carries two large aluminum trays of food.

The Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival presents We Feed People

Cooking from Haiti to Ukraine

This year’s Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival featured a new Ron Howard documentary about globetrotting humanitarian chef José Andrés. Stephen Silver reviews.
Stephen Silver

Stephen Silver

Reviews 4 minute read
A scene from Winter’s Tale. A bearded man wearing a hat that shades his face holds a swaddled baby. Another gestures warily.

Quintessence Theatre presents The Winter’s Tale and The Alchemist in repertory

Four centuries later, another pandemic pause

Drawing parallels between Covid-19 closures and a 1608 outbreak of the plague, Quintessence continues its 2022 return to the stage with two plays that reopened London theaters in 1610. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

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The book cover. The title and author text appears in white over a fractured-looking, abstract, photographic blue illustration

Below Torrential Hill, by Jonathan Koven

What the comet knew of Tristen

A 2021 novella from Philly author Jonathan Koven, published thanks to the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, is a new entry in a hoary tradition, but not without poetic merits. Walter Bilderback reviews.
Walter Bilderback

Walter Bilderback

Reviews 3 minute read

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A view of the PMA installation of Tanya Goel’s Index 2015/2020. Strips of faint blue on the wall rise taller than a person

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from South Asia

Drawing from experience

This exhibition of spare yet complex, intimate, and nuanced works by South Asian artists explores disappearing traditions, language, loss, and a world of boundaries. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 6 minute read
A close-up on conductor Donald Nally, a bald white man, during a choir performance. He is smiling and wears a dark suitcoat.

The Crossing presents Stacy Garrop’s In a House Besieged

New music with a message

In its latest world-premiere program, the Crossing, Philadelphia’s superb chamber chorus, married radiant singing to words of stunning social and political relevance. Peter Burwasser reviews.

Peter Burwasser

Reviews 3 minute read
Nathanial Washington, on a dramatic blue-lit stage, plays the moment Lloyd Price first stepped up to the studio microphone.

People’s Light presents Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical

Oh-oh over and over

The world premiere of Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical sings an unsung entertainment hero at People’s Light. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 4 minute read
Ebony Pullum as Billie Holliday. She wears a black & white dress and sings passionately into a vintage mic under red light.

Curio Theatre Company presents Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill

God bless the child

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Curio Theatre offers a complex, entertaining portrait of Billie Holiday’s final Philadelphia performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read