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Friday, December 22, 2023

Arden Children’s Theatre presents The BFG by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

The 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 11:27AM
Monday, November 13, 2023

Inis Nua Theatre Company presents Rosa Hesmondhalgh’s Madame Ovary by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Based 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 11:53AM
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation and partners present the Hate Ends Now Cattle Car Exhibit by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

It'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 02:31PM
Monday, September 18, 2023

Lantern Theater Company presents Molière’s Tartuffe by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

The 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 04:20PM
Friday, September 15, 2023

Philly Fringe 2023: Humble Materials presents The Yellow Wallpaper by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Humble 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 07:13PM
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Philly Fringe 2023: inFLUX Theatre Collective presents Bite the Dust by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

inFLUX 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 06:07PM
Monday, August 21, 2023

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Schubert Organization present Disney’s The Lion King by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Disney’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 11:51AM
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Applied Mechanics presents Other Orbits by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Applied 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 12:17PM
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Grounds for Sculpture presents Spiral Q: The Parade by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Flooding 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 04:44PM
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

There’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 03:39PM
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Curio Theatre Company presents Tim Crouch & Spymonkey’s The Complete Deaths by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Three 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 02:26PM
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Shakespeare’s The Tempest by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Quintessence 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 03:40PM
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Shubert Organization present the new national tour of 1776 by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

It’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 03:07PM
Monday, February 13, 2023

South Camden Theatre Company presents Matthew López’s The Legend of Georgia McBride by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

South 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 02:33PM
Monday, February 6, 2023

InterAct Theatre Company presents Stephanie Satie’s The Last Parade by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

InterAct 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 11:58AM
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Erin Courtney and Max Vernon’s The Tattooed Lady by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Philadelphia 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 02:08PM
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

The Wilma Theater presents Tall Order’s Those with 2 Clocks by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

More 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 03:15PM
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Anastassia Vertjanova and Annemarie Branco present The Living Gallery at Launch Point and Unorthodox Methods of Cosmic Flight by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

The 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 05:35PM
Friday, September 30, 2022

Philly Fringe 2022: Humble Materials presents Jess Noell’s Scarlet Letter by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Four 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 12:10PM
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Philly Fringe 2022: Die-Cast presents Brenna Geffers’s Baal & Dix by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Die-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 10:39AM
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Aurora Classical of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia presents “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!) by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Recording 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 02:59PM
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Shakespeare in Clark Park presents The Taming! by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

For 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 03:29PM
Friday, June 10, 2022

Lantern Theater Company presents Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Lynn 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 03:29PM
Friday, May 13, 2022

Azuka Theatre presents James Ijames’s Reverie by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

The 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 11:44AM
Monday, May 9, 2022

Theatre Exile presents Susan Soon He Stanton’s Today Is My Birthday by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Theatre 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 12:45PM
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The Wilma Theater presents Dmitry Krymov’s adaption of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

The 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 03:49PM
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Quintessence Theatre presents The Winter’s Tale and The Alchemist in repertory by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Drawing 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 04:18PM
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Azuka Theatre presents Val Dunn’s Carroll County Fix by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Val 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 11:53AM
Monday, March 7, 2022

Walnut Street Theatre presents Bill Van Horn's Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Following 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 01:42PM
Monday, February 28, 2022

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Philadelphia 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…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:06PM
Monday, December 13, 2021

1812 Productions presents Jennifer Childs and Scott Greer’s Two Outta Three by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

In Two Outta Three, Jennifer Childs and Scott Greer become empty nesters and explore what's next with their signature humor and charm. Jill Ivey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:34AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards