Topic: Theater
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The Citizen Recommends: Cleaning in the House of Healing
Theater of Witness’s new show tells the stories of overlooked frontline workers: environmental services technicians
By Angie Bacha![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ladysitting-Header-1-791x400.jpg)
The Citizen Recommends: Ladysitting
Author, playwright, and Penn lecturer Lorene Cary brings her contemplation on life, death, and our attitudes about both, to the Arden
By Erinda Sheno![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/DSC07082-791x400.jpg)
Arts, Culture and Brotherly Love
Gregory Walker’s Harlem Renaissance-style salons for The Brother’s Network invite Black men to celebrate their art, knowledge and greatness. Join them Friday for a book talk about race in America
By James Peterson![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Wide_Eyed_Studios_Arden_Constitution_Run_2023_Early_High-29-1-791x400.jpg)
The Citizen Recommends: What the Constitution Means to Me
There are just a few more days to catch this thought-provoking performance at Arden Theatre Co., but its message will stay with any engaged citizen long after.
By Erinda Sheno![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Improv-header-791x400.jpg)
Improv to the Rescue
Philly’s robust improv community is using the comedy staple as an avenue for spreading life skills, connections and conversation for those who most need it (i.e., all of us)
By Daralyse Lyons![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bree-Lowdermilk-Photo-by-Danny-Kornfeld-Rascal-Pictures-1-791x400.jpg)
Art for Change: The Composer’s Composer
Composer Bree Lowdermilk is bucking the norms of musical theater by writing shows with gender-expansive casts, taking feedback from 4-year-olds, and maybe even mounting a children’s musical on an abandoned pier.
By RJ Rushmore![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arielle_Julia_Brown_Three_Performance_HED-791x400.jpeg)
Art for Change: The Black Liberationist
Arielle Julia Brown, founder and director of Black Spatial Relics, supports performance artists whose art contends with slavery, freedom and justice. The next in a series with Forman Arts Initiative
By Logan Cryer![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rose_Luardo_bathtub_by_Ashley_Berkman_HED-791x400.png)
Art for Change: The Prankster
Rose Luardo, performer, dancer, visual artist and comedian shuns stereotypes in pursuit of art that’s both thoroughly provoking and totally fun
By Logan Cryer