Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Breaking the holiday formula with a curated selection of things to do in Philly this holiday season, with festivals, food, light shows, volunteering opportunities, and more. An Nichols round…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:19PMTuesday, November 19, 2024
In an exhibition curated exclusively for AAMP, arts patron and prolific actor CCH Pounder opens up her significant and uplifting portrait collection for Philly audiences. An Nichols reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:29PMMonday, November 18, 2024
Keith Hamilton Cobb’s American Moor, which follows a Black actor reluctantly auditioning for an Othello helmed by a white director, gets its Philly premiere at the Lantern. An Nichol revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:21PMThursday, November 14, 2024
The new exhibition at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University explores how fashion impacts our environment and our everyday lives. An Nichols previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:03AMMonday, November 4, 2024
Just in time for the week of the 2024 election, Hamilton is back in town, running at the Academy of Music through November 24. The current production boasts a great cast and sometimes differ…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:52PMWednesday, October 30, 2024
Just in time for Philly theatergoers stressed about the 2024 election to find a little relief, Eli Bauman’s crowd-pleasing 44 - THE unOFFICIAL, unSANCTIONED OBAMA MUSICAL arrives for a lim…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:11PMTuesday, October 22, 2024
An ambitious, sold-out world premiere at North Philly’s Esperanza Arts Center combines real-life stories from Mexican American locals and their families with rich, fantastical cultural ele…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:14PMFriday, October 18, 2024
Ethiopian American artist and design star Jomo Tariku, whose work spans from the PMA and the Smithsonian to Marvel’s onscreen Wakanda, gets his first-ever solo show at Fishtown’s Wexler …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:28PMMonday, September 23, 2024
Empire Records bombed when it first came out in 1995, but the soundtrack was a sensation. Now the movie is a cult classic, inspiring a new musical getting its world premiere at McCarter. An …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:31PMSunday, September 22, 2024
Fist and Heel’s Fringe entry merges a variety of dance elements from West African, Black Shaker, modern dance, and more to imagine the life of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson. An Nichols review…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:22PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
An Nichols previews this year’s Philly Fashion Week and Philly FatCon, two events that continue to make space for size-inclusive fashion.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:36PMSunday, September 8, 2024
James Joyce's Ulysses is the novel that everyone (or English majors at least) has to read, but few finish. In this year's Fringe, Elevator Repair Service tackles the elusive text. An Nichols…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:01PMWednesday, September 4, 2024
A full week of shows, workshops, family-friendly cabarets and more arrive with Black Circus Week at Cannonball. An Nichols previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:27AMWednesday, July 31, 2024
Theatre Exile and STARFIRE bring Brie Knight’s play to life at this year’s Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. An Nichols previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:35PMTuesday, July 23, 2024
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival mounts an excellent
production of The Color Purple with acclaimed local director Amina Robinson,
but the show glosses over some of the difficult moments so …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:30PMTuesday, June 18, 2024
An Nichols visits Philly’s Chocolate Ballerina Company, rehearsing for its second annual Black Swan production, based on Swan
Lake with original choreography by founder Chanel Holland-Pier…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:04PMSunday, June 2, 2024
The Lillys are back in Girls with Bad Reputations, the second installment of Xio Axelrod’s popular romance series about an all-women rock band chasing love and stardom from their Philadelp…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:32AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Famous Chicago improv troupe Second City didn’t have a good showing at its 2023 stop in Philly, but a better cast and a retooled setlist make for a worthy ticket at Bristol Riverside Theat…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:43PMMonday, April 8, 2024
Current representations of Black women in American history are improving, and a traveling exhibition now at Delaware Art Museum is a welcome addition to the trend. An Nichols reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:52AMMonday, March 4, 2024
The Flower Show is here through Sunday, March 10! An Nichols has your guide to entry on a budget plus suggestions for connecting with Philly gardens year-round, and Alaina Johns has a look a…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:36PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
The Marian Anderson Historical Society will host a performance of Porgy and Bess, and looks to continue the Museum’s challenging reconstruction project. An Nichols previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:19PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Ghetto Gods in Divineland, now getting its world premiere in Trenton, has successful interdisciplinary elements of music, poetry, and dance, but the script doesn’t follow through on its am…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:23AMTuesday, February 6, 2024
A new production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun at Bristol Riverside Theatre honors this monumental American text while highlighting relevant struggles today. An Nichols revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:41PMTuesday, January 9, 2024
Ain’t Too Proud, on
its first national tour and getting its Philly premiere, follows the lives,
loves, and moves of the Motown-hitmaking super group The Temptations, but questions
about ge…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:49PMFriday, December 15, 2023
Chris Davis has been bringing his fresh and
funny one-man take on The Nutcracker to Philly theaters since 2019. This
year, the still-delightful show lands at the Drake. An Nichols reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:15PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
An Nichols previews the 2023 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention and how the ECBACC works towards cultural awareness, youth literacy, and building safe spaces for geekdom.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:25PMMonday, June 19, 2023
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In the Heights relies on the life of a neighborhood for its drama, and a smooth, sparkling production from Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:59PMMonday, May 22, 2023
Chicken & Biscuits at Bristol Riverside Theatre gathers common tropes of the family funeral genre, but its performances and design meld comedy and drama for a fun family night. An Nichol…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:44PMMonday, February 27, 2023
Cotton, an immersive multimedia experience recreating generational trauma, marks Lyric Fest’s 20th anniversary, with new music by Damien Geter and a slate of poets inspired by the photogra…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:22PMPeople’s Light stages this informative and engaging one-man drama about lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who became the first Black justice on the US Supreme Court. An Nichols reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:20PMTuesday, October 26, 2021
Writer An Nichols followed the recent national social justice explosion that rocked the Philly theater community, but she wanted to look closer, speaking with local artists about their exper…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:52PM 
