Monday, April 20, 2026
Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the world premiere of James Ijames’s Wilderness Generation, a family homecoming that falters in its broad, bland depiction of trauma. Kiran Pandey rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Philadelphia Artists' Collective presents The Contrast, a late-18th-century comedy of manners that holds the title of America's first comedy. Kiran Pandey previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:13PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2026
Philadelphia Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare's Caesar, an adaptation that truncates the original text and moves the action to an underdeveloped modern setting. Kiran Pandey revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The Unscripted Project brings improv comedy to high school classrooms, teaching students skills and values of confidence and community. Kiran Pandey profiles.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Theatre by Development, a new company founded by UArts grads, presents Urinal, a 2017 high-school period piece that thrills for its verisimilitude, even when it bites off more than it can ch…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:46PM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival stages Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in repertory productions, each play illuminating the other. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:11PM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2025
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival stages A Raisin in the Sun to powerful effect, even if the production finds itself occasionally out of step. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Philly writer Sara Mae talks about their new poetry chapbook Phantasmagossip, writing songs with The Noisy, and themes of gender expansiveness and past selves. Kiran Pandey profiles.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:00AM[SHARE]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 03:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 P…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:16PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2024
Cambria House presents BODYSHOP, an uneven comedy with old-school Fringe-y charm. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 of its
c…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:23AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 02:11PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:16PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 04:37PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 05:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 08:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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. Kiran…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:28PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 01:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:55PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 01:40PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 02:26PM[SHARE] 
