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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Nasir Young and other PAFA graduates at Philly’s Gross McCleaf Gallery open up about the end of PAFA’s degree programs by Emily Schilling

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
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

(Re)FOCUS: Then and Now honors an historic 1974 Philly feminist arts festival by Emily Schilling

(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
Monday, January 29, 2024

Arden Theatre Company presents Lorene Cary’s Ladysitting by Emily Schilling

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 illus…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:53PM
Monday, December 4, 2023

1812 Productions presents This Is the Week That Is by Emily Schilling

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
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Woodmere Art Museum presents Barbara Bullock: Fearless Vision by Emily Schilling

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 a…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:42PM
Saturday, September 9, 2023

Philly Fringe 2023: IRC presents Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall by Emily Schilling

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
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

UArts presents Dan Levenson: SKZ Monochrome Classrooms and L’école at the Philadelphia Art Alliance by Emily Schilling

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. E…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:01PM
Monday, July 24, 2023

The heartbreaking luxury of home hospice care by Emily Schilling

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…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:21PM
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

MUSE Gallery presents Seeking Freedom: Portraits of Mass Incarceration by Emily Schilling

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. Em…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PM
Monday, May 22, 2023

The Print Center presents Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce by Emily Schilling

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
Monday, May 1, 2023

Museum for Art in Wood presents The Mashrabiya Project: Seeing through Space by Emily Schilling

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 vi…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:24PM
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Twelve Gates Arts presents Numb Images by Emily Schilling

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 …

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PM
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

UPenn’s Arthur Ross Gallery presents At the Source: A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered by Emily Schilling

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
Monday, January 16, 2023

UArts’s Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery presents Alex Da Corte’s The Street by Emily Schilling

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
Monday, October 24, 2022

The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents Rose B. Simpson: Dream House by Emily Schilling

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
Thursday, September 29, 2022

The Barnes Foundation’s Modigliani Up Close will feature four newly accepted paintings by Emily Schilling

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
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Jayson Musson: His History of Art and the Philadelphia Wireman are worth exploring together by Emily Schilling

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 sugg…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:50PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards