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Rouleau, in a green velvet jacket and shorts with green & yellow striped tights, sings ecstatically in Santa’s workshop.

Walnut Street Theatre presents ELF: The Broadway Musical

Singing loud for all to hear

A beloved holiday film comes to the Walnut stage with ELF: The Broadway Musical. But does this spirited production offer anything new for fans of the movie? nat čermák reviews.

nat čermák

Dec 03, 2024 Reviews 2 minute read

Minich’s multimedia piece has a blue silhouette of person at the center of a classical-looking halo, described in the article

PAFA presents Making Strange: Sacred Imagery and the Self

A new exhibition at PAFA spanning the 19th century to today (but rooted in a movement launched in the 1500s) explores religious imagery that has been distorted to signify the artists’ divergent views. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Dec 02, 2024 Reviews 5 minute read

A smiling man helps a kindergarten-aged girl affix a little paper note to a wooden rack with many other notes.

The Please Touch Museum presents XOXO: An Exhibit About Love & Forgiveness

A chance for Philly youngsters to explore compassion

XOXO, a traveling installation now at the Please Touch Museum, welcomes youngsters for a variety of displays and activities exploring their feelings and compassion for others. Jill Brooke reviews.

Jill Brooke

Nov 26, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Gallery view of entrance, a large panel with an illustration of laughing people in glamorous 1920s costume party garb.

The Delaware Art Museum presents Jazz Age Illustration

Illustrators deserve to be on museum walls

In the first half of the 20th century, the music and culture of America’s Jazz Age drove major social change. Now, a new exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum captures the era’s masterful illustrators. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Nov 26, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Three male dancers in white pants strike the same balletic pose bending to the left behind a fourth sitting & beating a drum

Penn Live Arts presents Limón Dance Company, with works by José Limón, Doris Humphrey, and Kayla Farrish

Bridging the past and future of modern dance

New York’s Limón Dance Company, an icon of modern dance founded in 1946, visited Philly’s Penn Live Arts for a mix of classic and new choreography. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.

Camille Bacon-Smith

Nov 25, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Bowers, a Black woman in a colorful sweater & eyepatch looks away as Gliko and Bellow argue behind her on a bare stage

The Wilma Theater and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company present Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s The Comeuppance

The reunion from hell

The Comeuppance at the Wilma considers every weighty topic under the sun as a quintet of unhappy Millennials gather for their 20th high-school reunion, but too often the stakes feel frustratingly low. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Nov 25, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Four people on stage in casual wear stand together, looking at a white sheet of paper that looks like a bill

Theatre Ariel presents Maya Arad Yasur’s Amsterdam

Layered narratives

The first mainstage production in over a decade for Theatre Ariel fronts a historic bill with contemporary perspective. Josh Herren reviews.

Josh Herren

Nov 19, 2024 Reviews 2 minute read

Gallery view with large fanciful portrait of 2 Black people on a peach field, one holding a chicken, the other a white flower

The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents Shared Vision: Portraits from the CCH Pounder-Koné Collection

Honoring Black women who look up and out

In an exhibition curated exclusively for AAMP, arts patron and prolific actor CCH Pounder opens up her significant and uplifting portrait collection for Philly audiences. An Nichols reviews.

An Nichols

Nov 19, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Various Esherick works, including sculpture, furniture, and prints, in a bright white-walled gallery with wooden floor.

Brandywine Museum of Art presents The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick

A rare gallery glimpse of iconic woodworks

Wood comes alive in The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick, now on view at the Brandywine Museum of Art. It’s a rare chance to see the interdisciplinary artist’s full oeuvre outside his historic home. Gail Obenreder reviews.