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 06:01PMCambria House presents BODYSHOP, an uneven comedy with old-school Fringe-y charm. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:53PMPig 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 05:33PMJeffrey 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 03:30PMMichael 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 03:59PMShakespeare 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 07:00AMPennsylvania 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 11:23AMPhiladelphia 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 02:11PMLantern 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 12:16PMBig 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 04:37PMPlays 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 05:20PMQuintessence 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 05:34PMManny 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 08:44AMMontgomery 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 03:28PMThe 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 12:22PMPhiladelphia-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 01:07PMSondheim 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 04:55PMArden 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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