Friday, April 24, 2026
The delightful national tour of the modern Broadway musical hit Shucked brings farm life to our city’s Forrest with its Philly stop. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2026
A new Romeo and Juliet at the Arden, directed by Amina Robinson, finds its beating heart in the violent adult world's intrusion on a childlike love. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2026
EgoPo captures the pulse of the neighborhood with Gemini, set in a South Philly backyard in the summer of 1976, with plenty of resonance for our Semiquincentennial. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:39PM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2026
The Philadelphia premiere of James Ijames's Good Bones, onstage at the Arden, has unmistakable resonance for Philly in the aftermath of the Sixers stadium debacle. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:11PM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2026
Jenn Kidwell brought her latest show, we come to collect, spoken and performed in ASL in partnership with Brandon Kazen-Maddoz, to FringeArts. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:19PM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2025
The Arden stages The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's popular magical realist drama about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final night, his legacy, and what we must do to continue it. Josh Herren rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:11PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
For their new partnership, Azuka and Simpatico team with Khalil Munir for 1 Pound 4 Ounces, a "very Black Philly" world premiere that feels like a perfect synthesis of both companies. Josh H…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Curios Theatre Company's Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors is a gleefully unhinged retelling of the Bram Stoker classic, in the spirit of Monty Python and Charles Ludlam. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2025
Dan Kitrosser's QUEER WINDOW! welcomes Karen, a repressed suburban wife who discovers a window that reveals unexpected desires in this campy, tender, and funny Hitchcock-inspired cabaret. Jo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:32PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
A new multimedia Fringe show by John Miller Giltner and Gene Farbe mixes slideshow, singalong, and earnest confessions to explore the messy tenderness of belonging to a family. Josh Herren r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
Reflecting on how to make absurd work in our absurd time, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium brings us home with its Philly Fringe entry, Tina Howe's Painting Churches. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
Shakespeare in Clark Park celebrates its 20th year with an original queer musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream that feels both nostalgic and contemporary. It runs through Sunday, …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:01PM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2025
The Arden leans into the political urgency and community spirit of Rent's roots with a new production featuring interactive couch seats available only with $20 rush tickets. Josh Herren revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
The national tour of Some Like It Hot draws from the golden era of musical theater. Its full-throttle charm and commitment to the form, instead of winking at the audience, is a rare feat amo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Blanka Zizka returns to the Wilma for the regional premiere
of Rajiv Joseph's Archduke, a fast-moving, boldly designed meditation on
an eerily relevant history and the choices we make to eng…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2025
Arden Children's Theatre welcomes youngsters and families to The Hobbit, an ingenious ensemble show that proves we can do great things no matter how small we are"a message we all sorely need…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:16PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2025
Fever Dream Repertory presents the world premiere of Bruce Walsh's james at the upstairs Skinner Studio at Plays and Players, about an everyman who wins a makeover at the Super Bowl. Joshua …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:58PM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2025
MJ the Musical, celebrating Michael Jackson's music in a story about preparations for his Dangerous World Tour in the early 1990s, opts for a polished, estate-approved narrative that leaves …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2024
The first mainstage production in over a decade for Theatre Ariel fronts an historic bill with contemporary perspective. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2024
1812's popular political satire revue This Is the Week That Is returns to Plays & Players to take on the 2024 election in its 19th edition. But out-of-touch sketches offer mostly limp la…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:58PM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2024
Quintessence kicks off its 15th anniversary season with a bold adaptation of Cyrano, casting the charismatic yet insecure hero as a defiant poet fighting against mediocrity and bourgeois con…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2024
Writer, director, and actor Jenn Adams takes an ambitious leap by portraying the complex and often problematic playwright August Strindberg in her new show for this year's Fringe. Josh Herre…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:25PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2024
The Philly premiere of Anna Ziegler's The Wanderers at the Lantern is a compelling yet uneven exploration of marriage, identity, and religion, featuring two Williamsburg couples decades apar…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:32PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2024
This year, two Philly Fringe shows offered two distinct explorations of performance art made in queer community: The Boy Bands Have Won from Hum'n'bards Theater Troupe, Thomas Choinacky's Fo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:41PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2024
Philly's EgoPo Classic Theater builds on a partnership begun in the 1990s with two Indonesian theater companies. They bring Ramayana, a dazzling cross-cultural epic, to the Navy Yard for a w…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:21AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2024
Lovesong follows a British couple who comes to live to the US. In exploring memory, love, and the passage of time, the play's ultimate vagueness makes it hard to empathize with the character…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:25PM[SHARE]Power Street Theatre presents the world premiere of Erlina Ortiz and Robi Hager's Siluetas, which brings Tony-winning star KO to Philly. The show could benefit from some more development, bu…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The new version of Harvey Fierstein's classic comedy, revised from the original into a shorter two-act production, gets its regional premiere at 1812 in a show that aptly emphasizes the writ…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Deborah Zoe Laufer's The Last Yiddish Speaker, getting its world premiere at InterAct, offers a striking glimpse into the specificity of Jewish generational trauma, but it needs something mo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Disney's Frozen makes its way to Philadelphia for the first time, landing at the Academy of Music and drawing passionate franchise fans into the magic of live theater. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2024
McCarter Theatre Center's revival of Dreamgirls features an all-star cast, lots of glitz, and dynamic, dazzling hair and costumes. But can it overcome the show's core flaws? Josh Herren revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:29PM[SHARE] 
