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In colorful 1920s evening wear, the cast dances on the edge of semicircular stage decorated like a jazz club.

Theatre Horizon presents Fats Waller’s Ain’t Misbehavin’

Celebrating the music of a Harlem Renaissance icon

Theatre Horizon closes the season with Ain’t Misbehavin’, the 1978 jukebox musical set in the 1920s jazz world of prolific Harlem Renaissance composer Fats Waller. An Nichols reviews.

An Nichols

May 05, 2026 Reviews 4 minute read

Childs, a 57-year-old white woman in a black dress, smiles ruefully as she holds up a purple satin corset.

1812 Productions presents Jen Childs’s She Gets Around

A closet memoir

A new solo show from Jennifer Childs takes audiences inside her closet for the stories that made her the comedy actor she is today, inspired by a lifetime of outfits. Walt Maguire reviews.

Walt Maguire

May 05, 2026 Reviews 3 minute read

A person in a silky white garment with a long train sweeps it around them, lit by dramatic blue and pink light.

Butch Mermaid Productions presents Ania Upstill and Danielle Levsky’s Sappho's Salon

Recreating a historic queer literary parlor

A West Philly Victorian house becomes a historic salon inspired by Selby Wynn Schwartz’s novel After Sappho, in this immersive performance from Ania Upstill and Danielle Levsky. An Nichols reviews.

An Nichols

May 05, 2026 Reviews 4 minute read

Liao, in red skirt & patterned jacket, laughs in a salon chair as the other actors on the salon set look worried.

InterAct Theatre Company presents Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay’s Seng’s Hair Salon

The Philly Cycle continues inside a Lao family’s South Philly salon

InterAct premieres the second play in its Philly Cycle program, this time spotlighting our Southeast Asian refugee community in a script inspired by a real-life salon on Ritner Street. Krista Mar reviews.

Krista Mar

Apr 27, 2026 Reviews 4 minute read

Lagerstam, in blue overall and peach shirt, and Moeller, in a patterned button-down, peek ecstatically from behind cornstalks

Ensemble Arts Philly and the Shubert Organization present the National Tour of Shucked

A corny balm for a turbulent spring

The delightful national tour of the modern Broadway musical hit Shucked brings farm life to our city’s Forrest with its Philly stop. Josh Herren reviews.

Josh Herren

Apr 24, 2026 Reviews 3 minute read

Scammell, in a tiny gold crown, rubs his forehead in cartoonish frustration as Walton and Canales look on in royal robes.

Arden Children’s Theatre presents The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, adapted by John Glore

A beloved 1990s kids’ book gets a staging worthy of its weirdness

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales has been delighting readers of all ages for more than 30 years. Now it hits the Arden stage in a zany adaptation by John Glore. Alaina Johns reviews.

Alaina Johns

Apr 21, 2026 Reviews 4 minute read

Nine people dressed as sailors pose in a tight group, singing, on a set like the deck of a ship with a deep blue backdrop.

Delaware Theatre Company presents The Chequerboard Watch

Brotherhood on the high seas

Delaware Theatre Company stages the rousing world premiere of The Chequerboard Watch, developed by several artists spanning the Atlantic over five years, about an intrepid mixed-race crew on a 19th-century sea voyage. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Apr 21, 2026 Reviews 5 minute read

Collage of Mandy and Darnelle smiling in their virtual interview, against a cityscape background.

The BSR Podcast: All about Everything I Know with Mandy Gonzalez

Broadway icon Mandy Gonzalez sits down with Darnelle Radford ahead of her April 25 Philly appearance

Star of stage, film, and TV, Mandy Gonzalez, joins Darnelle Radford in the virtual studio for an in-depth conversation ahead of her April 25 concert of Lin-Manuel Miranda songs at Marian Anderson Hall.

Darnelle Radford

Apr 20, 2026 Podcast 1 minute read

In a peach-walled livingroom full of boxes, the actors gather with shocked, interested faces around an open vintage lunchbox

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents James Ijames’s Wilderness Generation

Avoiding the weight of generational trauma

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the world premiere of James Ijames’s Wilderness Generation, a family homecoming that falters in its broad, bland depiction of trauma. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Apr 20, 2026 Reviews 4 minute read

The BSR Podcast: Catching up with James Ijames

Darnelle Radford talks with James Ijames about life post-Fat Ham

James Ijames joins the BSR Podcast to talk about how to bring a play to the stage, the formula for a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, and life after Fat Ham.