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 01:40PMQuintessence 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 02:26PMPeople’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 02:39PMThe 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 02:30PMThe 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 05:12PMDenise 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 01:35PMBill 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 04:31PMTheatre 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 08:21PMPennsylvania 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 02:18PMPennsylvania 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 12:48PMEternal Life Part 1, in its world premiere at the Wilma, offers a vision of the near future that is as strange and wondrous as it is relatable. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:39PMGood Grief, in its regional premiere at Hedgerow Theatre Company, offers a sometimes touching, mostly frustrating portrayal of grief. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:16PM1812 Productions presents Broads, a hit cabaret that celebrates the bawdiest, boldest, and funniest ladies of the 1920s through the 1960s. Kiran Pandey previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:26PMIn The Book of I.P., a poetry-and-essay chapbook collection, Philly native Chris Courtney Martin breaks from the strictures of Hollywood to craft a blazing manifesto of art on its own terms.…
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