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 05:04PMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:58PMMonday, 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 03:30PMFriday, 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 Her…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:25PMMonday, 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 ap…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:32PMMonday, 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�…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:41PMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:21AMMonday, 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 charact…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:25PMPower 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, …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:42PMTuesday, 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 wr…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:09PMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:56AMTuesday, 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 11:42AMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:29PMMonday, March 4, 2024
Girl from the North Country, a Bob Dylan jukebox musical set during the Depression by acclaimed Irish playwright Conor McPherson, defies expectations. It stops in Philly on its North America…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:42PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Actor and dancer Robert Montano, of Broadway’s Cats and many other stage and screen roles, reveals his early years as a racing jockey in this one-man show. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:07AMMonday, October 16, 2023
Peripatetic reality star Frankie Grande takes center stage in this new revival of The Rocky Horror Show at Bucks County Playhouse. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:37PMMonday, August 14, 2023
Bucks County Playhouse presents a star-studded Bridges of Madison County that delivers all the thrill of awakening love. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:48PMMonday, June 12, 2023
American Fast follows a women’s basketball player who struggles with representation, cultural traditions, legacy, and life in the public eye after announcing her Ramadan fast during the pl…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:52PMMonday, June 5, 2023
South Camden Theatre Company partners with the Strides Collective to produce Diane Son’s 1998 Stop Kiss for Pride month. But why do we need this story in 2023? Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:48AMTuesday, May 30, 2023
Act II Playhouse produces the brassy Hello, Dolly! with top-notch local talent, but does the big show suit a small venue? Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PMMonday, May 15, 2023
Quintessence marks new ground with a world-premiere production in collaboration with Chicago’s New Classics Collective, examining the life of Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved poet who gained …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:28PMMonday, August 22, 2022
The Grown-Ups, a thrilling new play developed in a Brooklyn backyard during the pandemic, gets its Pennsylvania premiere at Pottstown’s Theatre with a View. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMFriday, August 19, 2022
Theatre in the X brings its immersive, innovative take to the showbiz musical Dreamgirls at Malcolm X Park, celebrating Black artists and audiences. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:12PMMonday, August 1, 2022
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s Fences has been waiting in the wings since 2020. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:25PMMonday, June 13, 2022
Quintessences’s Reclamation Repertory continues with Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West, a deeply relevant play for our ongoing conversations about redlining, gentrification, and reparations. …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:51PMPhilly creator/performer Bi Jean Ngo’s world-premiere In Search of the Kitchen Gods is an inviting, interdisciplinary exploration of her Vietnamese heritage. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:13PMMonday, May 16, 2022
Delaware Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs provides nostalgia and some light laughs. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:18PMTuesday, March 22, 2022
Lantern Theater Company’s A Man for All Seasons, starring Frank X and Anthony Lawton, is an old-school historical drama that still proves its worth. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:02AMMonday, February 14, 2022
Theatre Exile’s Motherf**cker with the Hat moves the setting of the hit play from New York to Philadelphia, with mixed results. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:29PMMonday, November 8, 2021
Bristol Riverside Theatre returns to live theater with this powerfully acted production of Dominique Mourisseu’s workplace drama Skeleton Crew. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:00PMTuesday, October 12, 2021
Inis Nua’s A Holy Show gives a surprising warm and fuzzy feeling despite its grim subject matter: the 1981 hijacking of Aer Lingus Flight 164. Josh Herren reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:48PM 
