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The women cellists wear white and de Jesús wears a tan bodysuit painted with blue and red, singing into a mic as they play

Journey Arts presents Table Sessions: Daniel de Jesús at Bartram’s Garden

Heartache, love, and Lorca
In a unique program at Bartram’s Garden, including an Andalusian-inspired dinner, composer/performer Daniel de Jesús honored Federico García Lorca with voice and music. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Anndee Hochman

Anndee Hochman

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Book cover: title at top over a modern view of the city dominated by a brightly colored collage mural with the word FREEDOM.

Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy, by Amy Jane Cohen

A must-read for Philadelphians, and Americans
With Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, author Amy Jane Cohen places Black history at the heart of our city while honoring Black people not as victims, but as agents and victors. Lindsay Gary reviews.
Lindsay Gary

Lindsay Gary

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Muhammad, a young Black Muslim woman in brown hijab and light-blue tunic with brown embroidered leaves, laughs joyfully.

InterAct Theatre Company and Theatre in the X present Antu Jacob’s On My Deen

Spotlighting West Philly’s Muslim community onstage
For the start of its ambitious, community-centered Philly Cycle series, InterAct teams with Theatre in the X for this warm, involving exploration of love and faith for two generations of Muslim women in Philly. Maya Arthur reviews
Maya Arthur

Maya Arthur

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At right Orr explains something to Alburo & Wilson, looking outward. At left, actors hold panels with a painting of Franklin

Pig Iron Theatre Company presents Robert Quillen Camp and Dan Rothenberg’s Franklin’s Key

Discovering shared power in Philadelphia
An ambitious new interdisciplinary stage show from Pig Iron imagines a pair of modern Philly teens who uncover a power source hidden since the days of Ben Franklin, and fight the forces of evil who want to control it. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Reviews 4 minute read
O’Hare & Maseda sit facing each other, smiling and affectionately joining hands, while Apple watches wistfully upstage.

The Wilma presents Jon Fosse’s A Summer Day, translated by Sarah Cameron Sunde

A day to remember
Spare and devastating, the Wilma Theater’s A Summer Day gives eloquent expression to the complexity of grief. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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The actors hold a large paper pad with a number 5 on it, Chandler-Berat holding a mic and the others making goofy expressions

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Mickle Maher, Merel van Dijk, and Anthony Barilla's Small Ball

Foul ball
Small Ball, a fairy-tale musical about pint-sized basketball players, still needs a major assist. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Portrait of 19th-century enslaved man Squire intricately wrought in tiny beads, with broken chains, a spear, and a ship.

The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents Demond Melancon: As Any Means Are Necessary

Preserving culture, one bead at a time
New Orleans glass bead artist Demond Melancon, a modern icon of the Mardi Gras tradition of Black Masking, a confluence of West African, Afro Caribbean, and Indigenous cultures, gets his first solo museum exhibition. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

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Check, in a black polo, crosses his arms & faces away from mustached Aurelio, who approaches from behind. They're lit in blue

Quintessence Theatre Group Presents James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, adapted by Benjamin Sprunger and Paul Oakley Stovall

The first-ever stage adaptation of a James Baldwin novel comes to Mt. Airy
With exclusive rights to the first stage adaptation ever approved by the Baldwin estate, Quintessence Theatre Group delivers a steamy, affecting treatise on the politics of queer love and desire with Giovanni’s Room. nat čermák reviews.

nat čermák

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Wilfred, in blue shorts and floral tank, laughs while Kidwell, in jeans and a blue robe, looks on angrily.

Theatre Exile presents R. Eric Thomas’s Glitter in the Glass

Siblings face off under the legacy of a Confederate monument
R. Eric Thomas’s Glitter in the Glass gets its East Coast premiere at South Philly’s Theatre Exile in a hilarious and thought-provoking production directed by Ontaria Kim Wilson. Krista Mar reviews.
Krista Mar

Krista Mar

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Dressed in prep school blazers and lit in dramatic purple and green, Corey and Tyler thumb wrestle excitedly.

Inis Nua and Tiny Dynamite present Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair’s Square Go

Two popular pub-style theater series collide
In their first collaboration, Inis Nua and Tiny Dynamite unite their popular pub-themed performance styles with the Philly premiere of Square Go, a production about two Scottish teen boys facing a fight. Chhaya Nayyar reviews.
Chhaya Nayyar

Chhaya Nayyar

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