Friday, September 19, 2025
Humble Materials continues its annual string of feminist retellings of canonical works with CASS, loosely based on Cassandra’s story in Euripides’ The Trojan Women. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:03PMTuesday, September 9, 2025
Without a Cue’s interactive And Then They Were Dead is more fun than it is good—which is, itself, a good thing. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:57PMMonday, September 8, 2025
Part Shakespeare, part Stoppard, part Beckett, and part Dumb and Dumber, Philly Fringe offering Dogberry and Verges are Scared is one of the festival’s must-see shows. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:53PMTuesday, August 19, 2025
Three Philly arts leaders were on the team that developed a new resource guide for theaters tackling Jewish stories. They sit down with Jill Ivey to discuss how it all happened and what the …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:52AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
As a kid, Jill Ivey loved donning American flag fashion for the Fourth of July. Today, with her own child born between two Trump administrations, she marks the holiday in a different way, as…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:56PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
For Damon Bonetti’s last outing as PAC’s producing artistic director, the company presents CATO (Remixed), based on a play that helped inspire the American Revolution, in the building th…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:59AMFriday, September 20, 2024
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 12:01PMFriday, December 22, 2023
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 11:27AMMonday, November 13, 2023
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 11:53AMTuesday, October 10, 2023
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 02:31PMMonday, September 18, 2023
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 04:20PMFriday, September 15, 2023
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 07:13PMTuesday, September 5, 2023
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 06:07PMMonday, August 21, 2023
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 11:51AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
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 12:17PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
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 04:44PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
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 03:39PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
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 02:26PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
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 03:40PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
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 03:07PMMonday, February 13, 2023
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 02:33PMMonday, February 6, 2023
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 11:58AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
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 02:08PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
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 03:15PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
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 05:35PMFriday, September 30, 2022
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 12:10PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
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 10:39AMTuesday, September 6, 2022
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 02:59PMThursday, July 28, 2022
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 03:29PMFriday, June 10, 2022
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 03:29PMFriday, May 13, 2022
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 
