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Delaware Art Museum presents In Focus
Where women photographers wield intimate power
In a small gallery away from its usual bustle, Delaware Art Museum presents In Focus, a gathering of powerful works by women photographers featured from the museum collection. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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PHILADANCO! presents Roots and Reflections
A vivid history of late 20th-century Black choreography
With its spring program, Roots and Reflections, PHILADANCO! drew on popular works from past decades to prove that the vivid history of Black choreography still speaks to us today. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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SpringFest 2024 presents In a Violent Nature, The Idea of You, and I Saw the TV Glow
Honoring the cinematic legacy of the 1990s
The Philadelphia Film Society’s annual SpringFest brings popular films from Sundance and other festivals to town. This year, three prominent films paid homage to the cinematic legacy of the 1990s. Stephen Silver reviews.
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The Wilma Theater presents Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan
Reversing Orientalist tropes
Kindhearted Shen Te invents a ruthless businessman alter-ego when her generosity overtakes her wallet in The Good Person of Setzuan, presented in this “radically reclaimed” production at the Wilma centering Asian artists. Mina Reinckens reviews.
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Gary W. Jeter II presents Filaments
A Philly dancer becomes a choreographer of note
Philadelphia dancer and choreographer Gary W. Jeter II presents Filaments, a work exploring connections between humans and the structure of the universe. Melissa Strong reviews.
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InterAct Theatre Company presents Deborah Zoe Laufer’s The Last Yiddish Speaker
Imagining life for Jews after a successful insurrection
Deborah Zoe Laufer’s The Last Yiddish Speaker, getting its world premiere at InterAct, offers a striking glimpse into the specificity of Jewish generational trauma, but it needs something more. Josh Herren reviews.
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Plays & Players presents Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story
Paper tiger
Plays & Players presents Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story in a flat restaging that fails to capture the play’s primal power. Kiran Pandey reviews.
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Delaware Art Museum presents There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art
A better picture of Black women in American history
Current representations of Black women in American history are improving, and a traveling exhibition now at Delaware Art Museum is a welcome addition to the trend. An Nichols reviews.
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Roger Lee Dance Company presents Galaxy
Turning outer space into a family affair
Roger Lee Dance Company presents Galaxy, a timely new family-friendly performance inspired by the Milky Way. Melissa Strong reviews.
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The Brandywine Museum of Art presents Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled
A Wyeth who casts his own shadow
A bold, chilling, and magnetic Brandywine Museum of Art exhibition disentangles Jamie Wyeth from the legacies of his father and grandfather. Gail Obenreder reviews.
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