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A photo of a large, calm, greenish-brown river, taken from behind abundant summer greenery on the bank.

Philly Fringe 2021: the Highland Lakes Players present Do No Harm
and Montreal Honeymooners

History, real and imagined

In two streaming 2021 Fringe offerings, Austin-based Highland Lakes Players presents an alternative take on the assassination of Huey Long in Do No Harm, and explores the Canadian October Crisis in Montreal Honeymooners. Kirsten Bowen reviews.

Kirsten Bowen

Sep 13, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

Actor Lawrence Stallings wears a shirt, pants, and suspenders on a smoky, red-lit stage with a wooden floor and backdrop

Lantern Theater presents Steve H. Broadnax III and Charles Dumas’s Me and the Devil

The tallest tale of American music

Lantern Theater’s Me and the Devil riffs on the classic Faustian bargain but adds little new insight. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 13, 2021 Reviews 4 minute read

A close-up on the calm faces of Jacinta Yelland, Jacqueline, Libby, and Christina Shaw, white women in their 20s and 30s.

Philly Fringe 2021: inFLUX Theatre Collective presents The Choice

How do parents decide?

Should you have kids? Is that a personal decision? In The Choice, inFLUX Theatre Collective’s 2021 Fringe offering, three women theater artists navigate questions of pregnancy and ask who else gets to weigh in. Alaina Johns reviews.

Alaina Johns

Sep 11, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

Actor Greig Sargeant, a Black man, plays James Baldwin. He wears a dark blazer and stands at a wooden lectern.

Philly Fringe 2021: Elevator Repair Service presents Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge

The great debate

In Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, the performance-art collective Elevator Repair Service use a historical lens to scrutinize racism and civil rights in contemporary life. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 10, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

The bodies of three male actors in Love Unpunished lean and veer in different directions at the bottom of a staircase.

Philly Fringe 2021: Pig Iron Theatre’s Love Unpunished

Love is so short, forgetting is so long*

There are as many different ways to review Love Unpunished as there are people who died on 9/11. But only the living can remember, and speak a little about the unspeakable. Merilyn Jackson reviews.

Merilyn Jackson

Sep 05, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

A small paper collage that cuts and splits two copies of the “Extraordinary Togetherness” title page into dynamic angles.

The Philadelphia Art Alliance presents Nyeema Morgan’s Like It Is

Extraordinary questions

In Like It Is, now on display at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, artist Nyeema Morgan reveals that words are as malleable as the air or paper they inhabit. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Sep 03, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night by Morgan Parker

The intricacies of Black America

Poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker’s Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is a poetry collection exploring Black identity through humor, trivialities, power, vulnerability, and grief. Christina Anthony reviews.

Christina Anthony

Aug 30, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

Four Wolfthicket dancers sit playing in a circle on the floor. On the sides, two standing dancers move with arms outstretched

Lily Kind presents Wolfthicket

Fun and games at the club

Choreographer Lily Kind presents an evening of club dancing, contemporary dance, and child’s play with Wolfthicket, a real pre-Fringe find. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.

Camille Bacon-Smith

Aug 24, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

Sculpture Queen Anne’s Lace Pod by Ian Stabler, in a green meadow. It evokes a giant upside-down tulip made of wood pieces

The Brandywine River Museum of Art presents Ian Stabler’s Queen Anne’s Lace Pod

Nature’s engineering

Ian Stabler’s magical sculpture, thoughtfully constructed in a Chadds Ford meadow, is the latest site-specific artwork commissioned by the Brandywine River Museum of Art. Gail Obenreder visits.

Gail Obenreder

Aug 23, 2021 Reviews 3 minute read

An art gallery view of 11 decorative balls in different colors and textures, from baseball size up to large bowling balls

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents Hard/Cover

Creative disruption

Artist residencies at the Fabric Workshop and Museum often mark important shifts in artistic practice, explored in the exhibition Hard/Cover. Pam Forsythe reviews.