Pier Players Theatre Company continues its mission for new work with the world premiere of I Think We're Lost, but great actors and design can't save a script not ready for the stage. Gabrie…
A new adaptation of Twelfth Night at People's Light preserves the show's comic and musical joys while examining love, privilege, and class, but changes to the story land with mixed success. …
This year's Flower Show, open through March 8, 2026 at the PA Convention Center, nods to our 250th with the theme Rooted: Origins of American Gardening. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Julia VanderVeen's solo Fringe show, Dentata, incorporated wonderful production elements for a rich expression of female ferocity. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Traveling solo artist Megan Markham celebrates edgy, accessible storytelling in Witch with Her Skirt on Fire, an expertly performed trio of tales that reclaim the word "witch" and the women …
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-meddlin…
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 e…
The 29th annual Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia highlighted artists rarely seen on American screens for a lineup with plenty to offer local Israeli Americans as well as the non-Jewish …
Tim Crouch's I, Banquo, onstage at Media's Hedgerow Theatre, asks us in the words of Macbeth's slain best friend what we would do if someone gave us a prophecy of absolute power. Gabrielle K…
The Philadelphia Orchestra scores the 1992 film live this week, and it has us wondering: what Muppet do you relate to the most? Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer previews.
The Weitzman on Independence Mall honors the diversity of the modern Jewish experience with a new exhibition based on the popular social-media platform Humans of Judaism. Gabrielle Kaplan-Ma…
A pair of timely monologue shows in this year's Fringe, That Woman " The Monologue Show and Penis Envy, both explored the high stakes for women's autonomy in the modern political era. Gabrie…
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer spent her teen years devoted to big books and theater. Seeing Les Misérables all by herself in Philly in 1988 was a formative experience. Now she's going back to expl…
Princess Kate's cancer announcement brought up Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer's own memories of fighting cancer as a mom in her late 30s. This news is an opportunity for us all to look inward and st…
Sabrina Proffit stars in this popular one-woman show exploring the real lives of Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford at Act II Playhouse. Does it connect to presidential politics to…
When Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer heard about Sinéad O'Connor's death this summer, she became her 21-year-old self, sustained against harassment and injustice by a singular voice.
Tiny Dynamite brings the legendary yet little-known 11th-century Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu to life, alongside a bookstore manager whose own work is closer to the author's legacy tha…
Hedgerow marks its 100th season with the world premiere of Juliette Dunn's The Puzzle, which reveals complex inner worlds for all of us, whether or not we communicate by speaking. Gabrielle …
Mike Weilbacher details the amazing nature in and around the city in Wild Philly. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer previews.
Since Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer first reviewed Fiddler on the Roof in 2018, antisemitism has continued to rise, and this new production from the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene strikes just…
A Mary Poppins for the stage at Quintessence, based on the original stories by P.L. Travers and the 1964 film, marries a book by Julian Fellowes with the original Sherman Brothers music (plu…
Alice in Wonderland, the jubilant new holiday panto by Jennifer Childs and Alex Bechtel, engages both our children and our inner child. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
The short-lived Broadway musical adapted from the iconic film comes to the Walnut Street Theatre eight years after its limited Broadway run. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Chef Michael Twitty, a James Beard Award-winning chef, food historian, and author of Koshersoul, serves up conversation at the Weitzman this week. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer previews.
After a BSR podcast conversation between Gen X and Gen Z Rent lovers, Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer takes her teenager to experience Rent live, finding out whether Jonathan Larson speaks to a new g…