Monday, December 11, 2023
As an American-style panto, this ebullient, exceptional production of Peter at the Starcatcher from Delaware Theatre Company is a welcome respite from endless Christmas Carols. Gail Obenrede…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:03PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
Holiday cheer, community carols, and the return of the “Silent Night” Sing-in highlight the month. Gail Obenreder previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:56PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
The Delaware Art Museum has the biggest collection of British Pre-Raphaelite artworks outside the UK, and this exhibition, which opened at Tate Britain and now lands stateside, honors the ra…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:28PMWednesday, November 15, 2023
Another serving of November classical music offerings popping up in the Greater Philadelphia area. Gail Obenreder previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:35PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
The Delaware Symphony Orchestra continues its 2023-24 season with guest conductor Michelle Di Russo, who programmed her ideal concert with Joaquín Rodrigo, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and more…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:36PMTuesday, November 7, 2023
Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware continues its season with In the Heat of the Night, a world-class whodunit that doesn’t shy away from its story’s disturbing roots…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:13PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
November classical music offerings throughout the Philadelphia area, featuring performances from Articinia, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and music at the Woodlands. Gail Obenreder pre…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:01PMMonday, October 30, 2023
Ann Lowe, a Black American designer, should have been as famous as the 20th-century French couturiers who are household names today. A new exhibition at Winterthur charts her remarkable sart…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:22PMWednesday, October 18, 2023
Gail Obenreder previews the second half of October’s classical music performances, including events for devotees of the organ at Longwood Gardens and Kimmel Cultural Campus.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:16PMMonday, October 9, 2023
Tales of long ago find inspiration right at hand in Delaware Shakespeare’s vibrant Community Tour production of the rarely produced Cymbeline. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:13PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
The first half of October features performances by OperaDelaware, Choral Arts, Lyric Fest, Piffaro, and Delaware Symphony. Gail Obenreder previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:09PMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Delaware Theatre Company opens the season with a bang of eight doors in the ever-popular, ever-challenging backstage farce Noises Off. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:01PMDelaware’s Resident Ensemble Players open its 15th season with Vita & Virginia, a chamber production exploring a historic intellectual and romantic affair in an era of letters. Gail Ob…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:40PMMonday, September 25, 2023
Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O23 features the Philly premiere of Grammy-winning Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman’s Unholy Wars, with artistic triumph in every detail. Gail Obenred…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:51PMTuesday, September 19, 2023
The Crossing choir opens its new season with Crickets in Our Backyard, featuring world premieres by Tania León and Ayanna Woods, and an “indoor premiere” by Wang Lu. Gail Obenreder revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:13PMMonday, August 28, 2023
Andrew Wyeth is not widely known as an abstract artist, but maybe he should be. A beautifully configured exhibition at the Brandywine Museum of Art looks closer. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:30AMMonday, July 24, 2023
North Wilmington’s Rockwood Park, with its own alleged hauntings, makes an appropriately chilling setting for Delaware Shakespeare’s summer outing with The Scottish Play. Gail Obenreder …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:51PMWednesday, July 5, 2023
Curating the hottest classical music events in the area this month, including those from OperaDelaware, Academy of Vocal Arts, and a performance of Black Metropolis. Gail Obenreder rounds up.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:45PMMonday, June 19, 2023
Brandywine Museum of Art presents the first major Joseph Stella exhibition in more than 30 years, proving this pioneering, imaginative modernist’s ongoing importance. Gail Obenreder review…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:13PMWednesday, May 31, 2023
Yes, it’s summer, and Gail Obenreder previews some of its early classical music offerings.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:53PMTuesday, May 30, 2023
Philadelphia composer George Crumb, who died last year, was famous for his music as well as his hand-notated scores, art forms in themselves. Orchestra 2001 had both on display in this combi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:58PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Piffaro closes its season with Entre dos Álamos, a musical trip to South America including Spanish and Indigenous texts and music, proving that great music has always been created everywher…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
Gail Obenreder previews the rest of May’s classical music offerings, with events from Astral Artists, Artcinia, Orchestra 2001, Lyric Fest, and Relâche.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
Tempesta di Mare explores the music of Baroque Venetian charitable institutions that were famous for their vocal and instrumental ensembles, made up of brilliant women artists who were hidde…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:41AMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Like many university art collections, St. Joseph’s is an eclectic one, but it now boasts an elegant new home in the former quarters of the Barnes Foundation. Gail Obenreder visits.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:27AMWednesday, May 3, 2023
May offerings from Curtis Opera Theatre, Jeremy Winston Chorale, and Pyxis Piano Trio; and Tempesta di Mare celebrates its Fasch Prize win. Gail Obenreder previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:45PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
David Amado and the Delaware Symphony closed the season with back-to-back Beethoven, a familiar yet thrilling performance to finish the maestro’s two-decade tenure. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:21PMMonday, April 24, 2023
For its first concert at Longwood Gardens, Lyric Fest honored Earth Day with a program inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s surprisingly sophisticated 1790 text, The Metamorphosis of P…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:57PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Delaware Theatre Company closes its 43rd season with a thoughtful, inventive, and dazzling rendition of the classic musical with the triple-decker story, Man of La Mancha. Gail Obenreder rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:29AMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Gail Obenreder previews the second half of April’s classical music offerings, including performances by Opera Philadelphia, Delaware Symphony, Variant Six, and more.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:28PMTuesday, April 11, 2023
This spring, Delaware Art Museum boasts a pair of striking but very different exhibitions: Our Red Planet: Anna Bogatin Ott, and Estampas de La Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collec…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:08AM 
