Monday, November 11, 2024
Moreno, getting its American premiere at InterAct, takes us to a 2016 NFL locker room in the aftermath of Colin Kaepernick’s famous field protest. The show still has plenty to say about ou…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:36PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
In Erlina Ortiz’s La
Egoísta, now getting its Philly
premiere at PTC, two very different sisters (one an irreverent comedian and the
other a devoutly Christian bank employee) navigate the…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:40PMMonday, September 23, 2024
This bold and ambitious adaption of Othello from Philly-based Palestinian director Zaina Yasmin Dana weaves the original text with the modern realities of an ongoing war, with mixed but impr…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:51PMMonday, September 16, 2024
LA-based Lebanese American actor, writer, and producer Myria Ali-Ahmad brings her award-winning solo show, Handala: A Celebration of Palestine, to this year’s Philly Fringe. Krista Mar rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:13PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
The Climb, the latest world premiere onstage at InterAct, examines the white gaze in feminism, academia, and art, asking questions about power, consent, and commodification. Krista Mar revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:28AMSunday, June 2, 2024
Philly author Joseph Earl Thomas’s fierce and unusual memoir, Sink, follows his boyhood in 1990s Frankford, where fiction, fantasy, and reality collide. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:29PMMonday, May 6, 2024
None of Philly’s regional theaters have ever staged a full production of a non-solo show by a local AAPI playwright. Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists' new playwriting cohort wants to …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:27PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home, which explores a family on the front lines of desegregation in Kansas, gets its regional premiere at People’s Light. Krist…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:06PMMonday, November 20, 2023
Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a lesser-known early work by Lynn Nottage, one of America’s most popular playwrights, still feels relevant in this Lantern Theater production. Krista Mar revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:20PMTuesday, November 7, 2023
Priyanka Shetty’s The Elephant in the Room, a solo autobiographical show about an Indian software engineer turned theater artist,
is proving the creator’s performance chops in its Philly…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:46AMFriday, September 15, 2023
Solo performer Joseph Ahmed teams up with director Cat Ramirez for Half Magic, a Cannonball Festival show on grief and mixed-race identity through theater, circus, and storytelling. Krista M…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:29PMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Justin Jain puts his own spin on Anton Chekhov’s The Dangers of Tobacco in this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:47PMMonday, May 15, 2023
In the regional premiere of sandblasted at Theatre Horizon, Black women in a desert landscape are trying to survive in a world that is literally making their bodies fall apart. Krista Mar re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:59PMTuesday, April 11, 2023
InterAct presents the world premiere of pay no worship, a play
about very different cousins on a small Cape Verde island who grapple with the effects
of climate change, despite too often bei…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:18PMMonday, March 6, 2023
Azuka teams with Teatro del Sol for the world premiere of AZ Espinoza’s All My Mothers Dream in Spanish, a magical exploration of ancestry and healing that’s also very much of the moment…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:33PMMonday, February 6, 2023
A Western take on a Syrian soap opera gets a surprising twist in Guillermo Calderón’s Kiss, by turns hilarious and wrenching. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:35PMMonday, December 19, 2022
The Arden restages its popular adaptation of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web with a new cast sure to delight audiences of all ages. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:27PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
The Philly premiere of A Hit Dog Will Holler, onstage at Azuka, contrasts the online and IRL realms of today’s social activists, with a special lens on Black women in these spaces. Krista …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:51AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
This tender, interdisciplinary Cannonball Festival performance from Matthew Armstead explores the hopeful acts of healing from trauma, homophobia, and racism. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:38PMSaturday, June 25, 2022
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