So...What Is There To Do Around Here?: Seasonal Events

Doylestown, PA
Through Sunday, July 27, 2025

Lewis Tanner Moore — great-nephew of Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to gain international acclaim — dedicated much of his life advocating for Black artists and challenging institutions, like the Michener Art Museum, not to overlook their work and talent.
The Bucks County museum pays tribute to the collector and curator with an exhibition featuring 35 of the 65 paintings, photographs, sculptures and works on paper that Moore helped it to acquire. The collection includes works by the devoted advocate’s forefather, as well as local artists Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock and James Brantley.

Philadelphia, PA
Through Monday, September 1, 2025

The latest iteration of the famous three-decade-old traveling exhibition, Body Worlds: Vital has arrived at The Franklin Institute.
Featuring 20 whole-body displays and over 150 specimens, the exhibit is an exposition of ethically donated human bodies, animals and other anatomical figures that allows visitors to view complex anatomy structures and functions in an unprecedented way through the innovative preservation process of plastination.
The interactive and immersive exhibition weaves together organic artifacts and video projections; explores the physical and mental health concerns of contemporary times; and celebrates humanity in its optimal state: healthy, vibrant, vigorous and in motion.

Philadelphia, PA
March 25 - April 6, 2025

We know the story: Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love with boy. Girl AND boy die. The end. Or is it?
Straight from Broadway, & Juliet takes our favorite pop anthems from the 2000s and reimagines them as the soundtrack to one of literature’s most enduring tales: Romeo & Juliet. But in this retelling, our main character jettisons the tragic ending and decides to live.
Written by Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read and set to the music of Max Martin, the songwriter behind smash hits like Since U Been Gone‚ Roar and Baby One More Time, this hilarious jukebox musical hits the Academy of Music stage this spring.

Philadelphia, PA
March 25 - May 4, 2025

Since its founding in 1808, Philly’s Walnut Street Theatre has seen a lot of showstoppers, but these talents are a real dream.
Running throughout April is the six-time Tony Award-winning musical Dreamgirls, later adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture. The production follows a sensational 1960s Supremes-like girl group through the trials, tribulations and backstage drama of surviving the rapid rise from obscurity into pop superstardom, with an unforgettable original score filled with pop, R&B, gospel and disco, including the smash And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.

Kennett Square, PA
March 28 - May 4, 2025

Spring has officially sprung at Longwood Gardens, Philly’s largest display garden.
The familiar colors and fragrances of the season are ready to be experienced during the annual Spring Blooms event, offering opportunities to take in the world-renowned thousand-acre attraction’s early spring bulbs, vibrant blooms of aromatic tulips, beloved wisteria, flowering trees and more.
Pierre du Pont’s tranquil horticultural oasis showcases nearly 10,000 varieties among its indoor and outdoor grounds. Timed admission tickets are required.

Philadelphia, PA
April 3-13, 2025

The annual Philly Theatre Week is back for its eighth year, celebrating the artists, organizations and audiences that have made Philadelphia one of the most vibrant theater communities in the nation through a series of productions, readings, interactive events and more.
The week includes four dozen-shows at theaters across the city and the countryside, and featured theatre companies include Quintessence Theatre Group, InterAct Theatre Company and Arden Theatre Company. Tickets are pay what you can while they last.

Philadelphia, PA
April 4-7, 2025

The Chef Conference convenes the most prolific voices in food — award-winning restauranteurs, emerging chef talent, food journalists, cookbook authors anf the diners at the heart of it all — in Philly for a long weekend of food-focused fun.
Open to the general public, the four-day event features an exclusive dinner series showcasing chefs from acclaimed restaurants like New Orleans’ Acamaya and San Diego’s Animae alongside Philadelphia talent from eateries like Kalaya and Irwin’s, as well as food tours, industry panels and more.
Notable names for 2025 include James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov, Top Chef host Tom Coliccio and editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit Jamila Robinson.

Philadelphia, PA
April 19 - August 10, 2025

Hundreds of flags and banners were stitched by colonial flag makers like Betsy Ross and Rebecca Flower Young and carried by Revolutionary soldiers and militiamen. Only 30 are known to have survived.
The Museum of the American Revolution celebrates the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the United States Armed Forces with Banners of Liberty: An Exhibition of Original Revolutionary War Flags.
The milestone exhibition showcases over a dozen of these original flags, the largest collection of Revolutionary-era banners in more than 200 years.

Philadelphia, PA
April 24-26, 2025

As the world’s first, longest-running and most widely recognized track meet, the Penn Relays features a massive three-day festival each year at the University of Pennsylvania’s historic Franklin Field.
The event includes heated competitions between the nation’s top high school, college and professional runners, along with a Carnival Village full of music, merch and apparel stalls, and food and drink vendors.

Philadelphia, PA
April 25-27, 2025

One of the nation’s leading art and design fairs, The Philadelphia Show returns to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (now its permanent home) for the fourth consecutive year.
Staged on the museum’s East Terrace (above the Rocky Steps), the 63rd annual show features over 40 exhibitors and dealers from across the nation specializing in fine art, Americana, period furniture, folk art, ceramics, porcelain, silver, jewelry, textiles and decorative arts. Other activities include dealer talks, show tours and a self-guided treasure hunt.

Philadelphia, PA
April 25 - May 4, 2025

Written by Italian libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, coming to the Academy of Music, is a beloved opera about a very unlovable man.
Opera Philadelphia, the city’s only producer of grand-scale opera, presents this 240-year-old (yet timely) drama about a despicable nobleman who uses others without care for their regard or the consequences it brings, and what happens when he murders the father of a woman he’s assaulted, an act which might finally lead to his downfall.

Media, PA
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Beautiful Linvilla Orchards in Media, Delaware County, kicks off its season with the spring version of its popular Food Truck Frenzy, featuring nearly two-dozen local food trucks serving a wide variety of options, along with live music.
The fun-filled day also includes year-round family orchard activities like hayrides, train rides, pony rides, pick-your-own produce and face painting. The event is free to attend, with food and tickets for kids’ rides offered pay as you go.