Tuesday, May 12, 2026
A new show at People’s Light mixes the imagination of playwright Suli Holum with a documentary history of the world’s first medical school for women in 1890s Philadelphia. Emily Schillin…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Programming Steel Magnolias could be a risky choice, but a new production at People's Light never becomes syrupy. Emily Schilling reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2025
An enchanting new exhibition at the Barnes exploring the weird, unsettling, and captivating world of Henri Rousseau will travel to Paris next spring. Emily Schilling reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Kathryn Grody premieres her third autobiographical play, kick-starting the 2025-2026 season at People's Light with a brilliant marathon of a monologue. Emily Schilling reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:03PM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:43PM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2024
As a trustee emeritus of the Barnes Foundation, author Neil L. Rudenstine is clearly biased, but his book offers interesting details about the collection of Albert Barnes, and how his fraugh…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:11PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2024
A new solo exhibition by Philly conceptual artist and writer Theodore A. Harris, inspired by Nina Simone's history with the Curtis Institute, questions the ways that art, artists, patrons, a…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:45PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2024
Seven artists and two guest curators offer gorgeous and searing expressions of their American experiences in a satisfying and thought-provoking exhibition at Independence Mall's National Lib…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Emily B. Schilling visits Philly artist Nasir Young at his first-ever solo exhibition, asking him and two gallery colleagues, all PAFA graduates, about some big news from this Pennsylvania c…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2024
(Re)FOCUS connects a landmark feminist arts festival from 1974 with a new set of exhibitions and celebrations in 2024 throughout the city. Emily Schilling previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2024
This triumphant premiere based on Lorene Cary's 2019 memoir
about caring for her 99-year-old Nana explores the burden and privilege of caretaking,
interwoven with family stories that illustr…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:53PM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2023
A Philly tradition since 2006, This Is the Week That Is attempts to wring mirth from the news, but this year's iteration ranges from offensive to baffling. Emily Schilling reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Works by Philadelphia artist Barbara Bullock are dancing right off the walls at the Woodmere Art Museum in an enthralling retrospective that explores the intersection of Bullock's studio art…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 9, 2023
All That Fall, a hilarious and unsettling jaunt to a train station in 1950s Ireland, is expertly staged by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium in this year's Fringe, offering laughs right up…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Kicking off the academic year with two uplifting shows about how we communicate, learn, and teach, the Philadelphia Art Alliance at UArts welcomes SKZ Monochrome Classrooms
and L'école. Emi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:01PM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2023
Emily B. Schilling cared for her dying mother at home, and about a decade later, she faced a similar goodbye to her husband. Hospice is exhausting and heartbreaking, but she doesn't regret o…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Textile artist Carolyn Harper's Seeking Freedom: Portraits of Mass Incarceration at MUSE Gallery brings us into the lives of the human beings caught in the US prison-industrial complex. Emil…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2023
The Print Center presents Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce, a surreal mixed-media exhibition about work, industry, power, and people. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:42PM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2023
Six international artists explore the mashrabiya, widely used throughout the Islamic world as cooling structures, or boundaries"between public and private life, men and women, women and visi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Three artists with roots in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Iran offer reality checks on the stories we're told in a powerful mixed-media exhibition at Twelve Gates Arts in Old City. Emily B.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2023
A painting by Gustave Courbet, a fascinating 19th-century French artist, was lost in a Philly basement for decades. Now it gets its due at Arthur Ross Gallery. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:16PM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2023
Expect the unexpected at a colorful and challenging new solo exhibition from internationally known interdisciplinary artist Alex Da Corte, a Camden native and UArts grad. Emily B. Schilling …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2022
Internationally known mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson adds architectural installation and video work to her wide-ranging repertoire for the first time in this special exhibition at The Fa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
A new Barnes exhibition detailing the latest scholarship and technology in the world of Modigliani has a big surprise: four previously unverified paintings will be on the walls. Emily Schill…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Jayson Musson launches His History of Art at The Fabric Workshop and Museum while the anonymous Philadelphia Wireman's work appears at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Emily Brewton Schilling sugges…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:50PM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
