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Seven dancers in colorful, iridescent circus-evoking costumes, women en pointe, wield hoops and ribbons.

BalletX presents its 2025 Summer Series, featuring choreographers Amy Hall Garner, Noelle Kayser, and Matthew Neenan

A preview, a premiere, and a revival

For this year’s summer series, BalletX presents an exciting excerpt from Amy Hall Garner’s upcoming Petrushka, a premiere by choreographic fellow Noelle Kayser, and a celebration of Matthew Neenan’s Last Glass. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
Camille Bacon-Smith

Camille Bacon-Smith

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Impressionistic portrait of a calm, rugged man smoking a pipe, in a mustache, brown coat, and dark blue hat.

The Barnes Foundation presents From Paris to Provence: French Painting at the Barnes

Putting French artists in their place

With several Barnes galleries closed for refinishing, some of the museum’s 19th and 20th-century masterpieces get a new configuration in From Paris to Provence: French Painting at the Barnes. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

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A giant textured gray ceramic vessel stands on a base of black acrylic hair, one hank of it attached to the gallery wall.

The Clay Studio presents resident artists Akiko Jackson, Minah Kim and Kevin Snipes

Three enigmatic solo shows explore empathy

Artists Akiko Jackson, Minah Kim, and Kevin Snipes wrap up their three-year residency at the Clay Studio Center for Innovation in Ceramic Art with this trio of enigmatic and arresting solo shows. K.A. McFadden reviews.
K.A. McFadden

K.A. McFadden

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In fanciful summery clothes and makeup, the actors crowd into an outdoor bower of gauzy white fabric with green trees behind

Indecorous Theatre presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Schuylkill Center

Into the forest

Philly’s Indecorous Theatre takes audiences into the woods for an interactive production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that celebrates the show’s gender-bending, class-swapping, fairy-meddling magic. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

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In 60s or 90s fashion, the cast mugs happily in a line, reaching out to each other. Lieberman holds a purple plant at center.

People’s Light presents Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors

Comedy, the macabre, and capitalism

A new production of Little Shop of Horrors, closing out People’s Light’s 50th anniversary season, gives fearsome new teeth to the adage that there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. Mina Reinckens reviews.
Mina Reinckens

Mina Reinckens

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In a dotted dress, Johnson stands with hands on her hips. Wyatt sits on a couch. Fairbanks passes behind carrying a towel.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

Still asking stark questions

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival stages A Raisin in the Sun to powerful effect, even if the production finds itself occasionally out of step. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Kiran Pandey

Kiran Pandey

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A stark rural scene with a square white house, bright cloudy sky, naked trees, and a thin brook reflecting the white sky.

Brandywine Museum of Art presents Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth

New windows on Wyeth’s world

The Brandywine Museum of Art’s Wyeth Study Center invigorates the storied local artist’s legacy. Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth features intimate works made over 70 years at a single Chadds Ford farm. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
Emily Schilling

Emily Schilling

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With the 3 women dancers in long loose orange-yellow paisley dresses, the dancers kick one foot up & angle their hands upward

West Chester Dance Works presents Rachel Harris: One Woman Over the Line

Dancing the way to freedom

A June 22 performance of West Chester Dance Works’s Rachel Harris: One Woman Over the Line at the Performance Garage celebrated Juneteenth with a vibrant, relevant imagining of one real-life woman’s journey to freedom. Melissa Strong reviews.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

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Rectangular print with gentle peach, maroon and yellow colors featuring silhouettes of six different plants.

Brandywine Museum of Art presents This Earthen Door: Nature as Muse and Material

The art of Emily Dickinson’s garden

An elegant conceptual exhibition at the Brandywine Museum of Art explores conservation, the act of noticing, and the poetics of nature and art through the lens of Emily Dickinson’s garden and her historic herbarium. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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Graceful 8-foot indoor dome made of wood and minutely detailed stained glass in all colors, with an opening to enter.

Michener Art Museum presents Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural

Embracing the impermanence of beauty

In an eerie, exquisite show at the Michener Art Museum, stained-glass artist Judith Schaechter explores the darker emotions and stories that make beauty and joy possible by contrast. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

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