Coverage of arts in Philadelphia
Walking into the Forrest Theatre, patrons are assaulted by the glaringly-bright light of the stage. This production of Oklahoma!, the lights seem to say, will hide nothing. In many ways, Daniel Fish’s revival lives up to this promise.
View More A Powerful Revival: Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma!
In a post-quarantine world, we often don’t know what to expect, and the same is true of Sarah Knittel and Bradley Kristian Wrenn’s upcoming experience/performance titled MAKE A F@CKIN’ SHOW YOU POS. Sarah Knittel, one half of the director/performer duo, received our smoke signals and exited her cave long enough to discuss her work and the show with Phindie.
View More Emerging from the Dark: Sarah Knittel on MAKE A F@CKIN’ SHOW YOU POS
Australia’s renowned Circa continues to defy the laws of gravity in their latest program, Humans 2.0. The contemporary circus troupe is returning to Philly with the follow-up to their 2018 performance Humans. The show promises to push the physical boundaries even further with their 10-member company. Performer Luke Thomas spoke with Phindie about the upcoming program at the Zellerbach Theatre.
View More The Return of Circa: Luke Thomas on Humans 2.0
For millennial theater kids, it is hard to overstate the cultural importance of Rent. First produced in 1996, the contemporary retelling of Pucini’s La bohème introduced me and my peers to rock ballads, profanity, drug use, sex, homelessness, and AIDS. Presented in Philly as part of its “25th Anniversary Farewell” tour, this Rent feels adolescent, that is: young, passionate, loud, and slightly dumb.
View More Seasons of RENT: A young cast helps an aging show
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Marsha Norman’s two-woman play ’night, Mother is a tragedy on an intimate, rather than epic, scale. Taking place over a single night, it looks at a widowed mother and her divorced daughter, who is epileptic, depressed, and at the end of her rope. Philadelphia audiences can catch Norman’s award-winner from March 4 to March 27, 2022, in a presentation by Isis Productions starring Kirsten Quinn and Renee Richman-Weisband. Phindie spoke to director Neill Hartley about what makes this such a fitting play for our times.
View More Rich and Resonating: Neill Hartley on ’NIGHT, MOTHER from Isis Productions
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a Miami-based non-profit that supports journalism, arts, and culture, has announced the recipients of the 2022 Knight Arts and Tech Fellowship, one of whom is Philadelphia-based artist James Allister Sprang.
View More 2022 Knights Art Fellows Include Philly Artist James Allister Sprang
Here’s an overview of some of the shows coming to the stage in Philadelphia this month.
View More March 2022 Roundup
Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown is a blend of retold Greek myths, written in the rich folk-musical language of the American south, focusing on the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone.
View More HADESTOWN (National Tour) at the Kimmel Center
There’s tons of great shows to see in Philadelphia this month! Here are Phindie’s picks for some of the must-see performances. The Cure at Troy…
View More FEBRUARY ROUNDUP: This month’s picks
Similar to any other market, the art market is always hustling, with buyers and sellers trading in different art commodities, services, and art pieces
View More Olyvia Kwok Art Investments: identifying and accounting for investments in artwork
Today we are celebrating the lives of those who have fought for our country.
View More Remembering Veterans and War Through Art
A exhibition of solo painting work by Jean Plough comes to Old City’s Muse Gallery July 31–September 1, 2019
View More Plough’s Passages: New exhibition at Muse Galley
Being an art critic is all about interpreting and reviewing a piece of art so that you can get to the core of what the artist is trying to say.
View More Art Criticism: How to write a powerful critique
A whimsical and educational show combining images of the city by moonlight, gaslight, electric light, fire and lightning.
View More A dilettante at large considers Philly After Dark at the Athenaeum
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View More How to Make Your Art Blog Popular Abroad
An anticipated cultural attraction opens along the Delaware River.
View More Without Peer: The Cherry Street Pier opening is an unqualified success
GARDENS SPEAK is a metaphysical experience of death and injustice… and a tangible experience of growth and self-expansion.
View More GARDENS SPEAK (Tania El Khoury): 2018 Fringe review
Toby Zinman considers “Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp/The Future Fields Commission” and “Biting Wit and Brazen Folly: British Satirical Prints, 1780s–1830s”
View More A Dilettante at Large reviews two new shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artsi event on First Friday this April was a chance for audiences to see artists through a different lens.
View More Art in Sketch: ARTSI at the Sculpture Courtyard
If you only visit one art show this month, make it Bucks County’s Kings Oaks Farm in Newtown
View More Art at Kings Oaks: A weeklong pop-up exhibit