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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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