In this year’s Philly Fringe, Humble Materials adapts the classic war novel All Quiet on the Western Front to focus on the ones who are most often left behind: women. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:01PMThe Arden presents The BFG, an adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic, in a production fit for both kids and the young at heart. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:27AMBased on the lived experience of playwright Rosa Hesmondhalgh’s cancer diagnosis, Inis Nua’s Madame Ovary is equal parts funny and tragic. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:53AMIt's not just important that we continue to care about the Holocaust. It's imperative. That's why the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation presents the Hate Ends Now Cattle Car Exhi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PMThe Lantern Theater takes Richard Wilbur’s definitive 1963 translation of Molière’s 1664 play, Tartuffe, sets it in the Belle Époque, and sets a high bar for the 2023–2024 theater se…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:20PMHumble Materials takes on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic feminist short story with theater, dance, and impressive makeup in this year’s Fringe. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:13PMinFLUX Theatre Collective’s Philly Fringe show Bite the Dust focuses on the impermanence of life, and the permanence of art. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:07PMDisney’s first large-scale musical returns to Philadelphia with big puppets and bigger talents worthy of the spectacle. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:51AMApplied Mechanics produces an interactive, choose-your-own adventure work of theater in its latest Other Orbits installment, inviting audiences to a convention that is both surreal and oddly…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:17PMFlooding from 2021’s Hurricane Ida destroyed most of the archive from Spiral Q’s 27-year history of community art and advocacy, but enough remains for an urgent and engaging exhibition a…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:44PMThere’s a surprise in the staging of Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, which takes place just a few blocks from the venue that inspired it. Jill Ive…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:39PMThree years into the coronavirus pandemic, Curio Theatre Company’s production of The Complete Deaths shows us that sometimes death can be a laughing matter. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:26PMQuintessence Theatre Group combines creative casting, minimalistic design, and a whole lot of masks for its ambitious production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:40PMIt’s fitting that the new national tour of 1776 (without any cis men in the cast) is getting started here, in the city where it happened. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:07PMSouth Camden Theatre Company puts the “amp” in “camp” and the “art” in heart in its production of Matthew López’s The Legend of Georgia McBride. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:33PMInterAct Theatre Company’s 35th anniversary season continues with a world premiere about a distinctly Jewish emigrant experience set not in the Ukraine of 2023, but the post-Soviet Ukraine…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:58AMPhiladelphia Theatre Company launches its 2022–2023 season with new artistic directors and a world premiere musical that shines bright despite a disappointing performance from its celebrit…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:08PMMore a work of theater than a play, Tall Order’s Those with 2 Clocks, now onstage at the Wilma, is funny, provocative, and beautifully designed. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:15PMThe Living Gallery, an immersive, walk-through art installation, hosts Fringe performances of Unorthodox Methods of Cosmic Flight, a charmingly maximalist experience following a pair of wann…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:35PMFour historical figures, two time-travelers, and one figure whose story is yet to be told dance their way across the centuries Bill & Ted-style in a dance-theater piece about life, art, …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:10PMDie-Cast’s Baal & Dix is everything a Fringe show is supposed to be: immersive, imaginative, a little inscrutable…and short. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:39AMRecording a Fringe performance means you can air it again in future festivals. But as “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!) shows, that’s not always a good …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:59PMFor its 16th production, Shakespeare in Clark Park presents one of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays…and a refreshing antidote. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:29PMLynn Nottage’s modern classic is a funny, fourth-wall-breaking work of art under the direction of Amina Robinson for Lantern Theater Company. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:29PMThe new work by Philly’s own Pulitzer Prize winner, James Ijames, explores what gets left behind when a person dies without having authentically lived. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:44AMTheatre Exile’s production of Succession writer Susan Soon He Stanton’s charming play shows just how possible it is to feel alone, even when you spend your life talking to other people. …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:45PMThe Wilma gives Chekhov’s classic a chaotic, colorful modern update—complete with a sentient train station departure sign. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:49PMDrawing parallels between Covid closures and a 1608 outbreak of the plague, Quintessence continues its 2022 return to the stage with two plays that reopened London theaters in 1610. Jill Ive…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:18PMVal Dunn’s world-premiere play reckons with changes to Carroll County, Maryland, amidst the opioid epidemic and the suburbanization of once-outlying small towns. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:53AMFollowing protests by a cohort of Philadelphia artists taking aim at the Walnut’s leadership, the theater produces a shlocky, self-indulgent, and sometimes cringeworthy adaptation of Sherl…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:42PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company closes out its 2021-22 season with Choir Boy, combining must-see artistry with characters and stories that need more space on our city’s stages. Jill Ivey revi…
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