Last Chance

Catch It or Regret It

by Rachel Frankford

Simpatico Theatre stages Lee Blessing's 1993 play about 22-year-old Kim Bergalis, who became an "innocent" poster child for AIDS when she contracted the disease from her dentist in the late 1980s. Blessing wrote himself into the play as a postmodern narrator who struggles to rescue Bergalis' story from the frenzy of exploitation that surrounded the last years of her life.

Sccial Consciousness

This show brings together 14 artists whose work deals with social injustice. Luis Suave Gonzalez's My Life symbolizes the American Dream gone wrong. Photographer and activist Harvey Finkle, whose work here in Philadelphia has involved the Kensington neighborhood and a documentary on South Philly's Jewish community at the turn of the century, photographs a young boy in a desolate landscape. He could be anywhere in the world—including right here.

"Sweet Harmony" is an apt title for an exhibition of Moe Brooker's jazz-inspired work. His abstract paintings are always striking for the amount of movement they contain. Lines trip sweetly and surely down the canvas, and every noteworthy block of color feels like it's exactly where it ought to be.