Suburb acting is paired with thoughtful incorporation of modern themes.
By Thom Nickels
Thom Nickels: It could have been worse
It could have been so much worse. Imagine if Sasha Suda, 45, former president and CEO of the Philadelphia Art […]
Thom Nickels: Come for the music, stay for the virtue-signaling
The city’s last big Benjamin Franklin Parkway concert was a first-ever New Year’s Eve concert in 2025. Headlined by LL […]
Paul Davis: ‘Longmire’ author Craig Johnson’s Philly connections
I watched and enjoyed the TV crime series Longmire on A&E back in 2012, and I went on to read […]
Thom Nickels: When Walt Whitman came to Germantown
The poet Walt Whitman visited Germantown on a number of occasions. Perhaps his most noteworthy visit was recorded by Katherine […]
Thom Nickels: Renamed, rebranded, and reduced — What happened to the Philadelphia Museum of Art?
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, now the Art Museum of Philadelphia, has been in decline for a number of years. […]
President’s House is politics over architecture — and everything else
While the history of slavery should never be forgotten, it should not be interwoven in the “design message” of the President’s House.
By Thom Nickels
Marines grapple with history and judgment in new play
“The Pearly Gates” for many represents the Gates of Heaven or the gates of the afterlife. The term is used […]
From Peking to Philadelphia — The East, the West, and Pearl S. Buck
In 1938, the Swedish Academy shocked the American literary establishment by awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Pearl S. […]