Monday, February 24, 2025
Lantern Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, a conventionally delightful staging of Shakespeare’s original rom-com. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:17PMWednesday, January 29, 2025
The Wilma Theater presents The Half-God of Rainfall, a contemporary epic poem that blends oral storytelling, Yoruba and Greek mythology, and basketball. Kiran Pandey previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:24PMWednesday, January 22, 2025
FringeArts and Ninth Planet present Arielle Julia Brown’s fallawayinto: Corridors of Rememory, a word premiere multimedia play that honors the life and legacy of Donna Nicole Booker. Kiran…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:16PMMonday, December 16, 2024
Charles Burns, the cult-favorite Philly-based cartoonist behind Black Hole, is back with the graphic novel Final Cut, a new work the artist seems born to create. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:49PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
The Strides Collective presents Matt Shvyrkov’s Confabulation, a frequently engaging portrait of misfits that seems at odds with its overly ambiguous structure. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:01PMSunday, September 29, 2024
Cambria House presents BODYSHOP, an uneven comedy with old-school Fringe-y charm. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:53PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
Pig Iron presents Poor Judge, an exuberant piece of dance-theater cabaret that finds the personal in the music of Aimee Mann. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:33PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Jeffrey Cousar’s An Avalanche
of ‘No’ in the Cannonball hub of this year’s Fringe is a one-man riff on Macbeth
that, despite its sincerity, fails to fully engage in the implications …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PMThursday, September 5, 2024
Michael Galligan brings Cloud Baby to the Philly Fringe, an amusing one-man clown show that seems more a sketch than a finished piece. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:59PMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Shakespeare in Clark Park presents As You Like It with a modern twist, transposed to near-future Delaware to explore themes of exile, love, and community. Kiran Pandey previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:00AMTuesday, July 2, 2024
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival brings a thrillingly modern tenor to The Merry Wives of Windsor, which comes to life with musical verve and comic effervescence. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:23AMMonday, June 17, 2024
Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Roger Q. Mason’s The Duat, a play that, even with an astonishing central role, struggles to settle into its own rhythm. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:11PMMonday, May 27, 2024
Lantern Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, as reliably airy and delightful as it’s ever been. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:16PMMonday, April 29, 2024
Big Telly and Tiny Dynamite present The Worst Cafe in the World, a conceit that offers theater as dinner but never amounts to a complete meal. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:37PMMonday, April 8, 2024
Plays and Players presents Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, in a flat restaging that fails to capture the play’s primal power. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:20PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Quintessence Theatre Group stages a blockbuster Macbeth with an expanded script and an all-male cast, thrilling even when its reach exceeds its grasp. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:34PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Manny Brown talks comedy and community with the collective Next in Line Comedy, now with a new venue at The Coop. Kiran Pandey profiles.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:44AMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Montgomery Theater presents R. Eric Thomas’s Mrs. Harrison, a play that contends with timely themes of storytelling and appropriation but falters for the messiness of its construction. Kir…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:28PMMonday, January 22, 2024
The Walnut Street Theatre revives Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to explosive effect, conjuring the delicate illusions of Albee’s most famous play. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:22PMTuesday, January 2, 2024
Philadelphia-based translator and Penn professor Emily Wilson follows her acclaimed English translation of The Odyssey with a similarly lucid and lean new Iliad. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:07PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Sondheim still abounds, despite his recent passing, and the new tour of Company takes a gender swap to the 1970 story, with uneven results that nevertheless keep the joy of the show alive. K…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:55PMMonday, November 6, 2023
Arden Theatre Company presents Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, a play that is as alternately illuminating and frustrating as our founding document. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:40PMMonday, October 16, 2023
Quintessence Theatre Group conjures a classic vision of hell with Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, in a new translation by Alex Burns. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:26PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
People’s Light brings social horror to the stage with the world premiere of Steve H. Broadnax III’s Bonez, which boasts eerie technical wizardry but is stymied by a script that too often…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:39PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
The Philly Fan, in an updated version at Hedgerow Theatre starring playwright Bruce Graham, surveys 50 years of Philadelphia sports through the thoughtful perspective of one man in a bar. Ki…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:30PMTuesday, September 19, 2023
The 2023 Philly Fringe takes on Macbeth in two different shows: Spanking Macbeth, an original play, and Macbeth in a Bar, a restaging at Lilly’s Ferry. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:12PMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Denise Stephenson invokes the specter of our former First Lady in Finding Melania, a one-woman show at the Philly Fringe that offers a surreal portrait of complicity and alienation. Kiran Pa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:35PMThursday, September 7, 2023
Bill George brings Odysseus to the Philly Fringe, a one-man retelling of The Odyssey that captivates in returning the poem to its rhetorical origins. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:31PMFriday, August 18, 2023
Theatre in the X celebrates its 10th anniversary with Zooman and the Sign, a tremendous rumination on community violence in Philadelphia that is all too resonant today. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:21PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival closes its 2023 season with bold comedic swings and infrequent wonder in an ultimately uneven Tempest. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:18PMMonday, June 5, 2023
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival opens its 2023 season with Henry IV, Part 2, a joyous restaging that succeeds in ragtag style, despite a few dramatic missteps. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:48PM 
