4,217 stories from Broad Street Review
Applied Mechanics' 'This Is on Record' takes a 50-year look back at our political arena and finds remarkable similarities. Cara Blouin reviews.
SoLow Fest entries 'Potts' and 'Table on Table on Table' offer new glosses on familiar stories. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Alma's Engine brings Eppchez!'s 'Publik Private' to SoLow Fest and examines the four faces of two historic people. Cara Blouin reviews.
Company Aiello's SoLow Fest entry 'Unconscious Theater Machines' puts audiences in the action for wonderful community-building, one-on-one performances. Melissa Strong reviews.
Hedwig's otherness and format challenge how we think about ourselves and theater. Braden Chapman " the actor who plays her " considers.
I-Chia Chiu and Mason Rosenthal's SoLow Fest entry 'Aisle' makes magic from the mundane. Jessica Rizzo reviews.
reTHEATER's revival of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' sacrifices character and story to present an exuberantly loud concert with meandering monologues. Mark Cofta reviews.
There's rich meat on the bones of Dominique Morisseau's 'Skeleton Crew,' a must-see production at People's Light & Theatre Company. Mark Cofta reviews.
Die Cast's interactive SoLow entry 'Pre-Phyre' brings together an apocalyptic event and fascinating characters. Cara Blouin reviews.
Steve Lippe's medical odyssey comes to life in his entertaining SoLow Festival monologue 'Texas Weiner!' Mark Cofta reviews.
'Ragtime,' based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, remains strikingly relevant at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Automatic Arts' SoLow Festival entry collects a fascinating foursome with familiar feelings. Mark Cofta reviews.
Disney's 'Aladdin,' presented by the Kimmel Center's Broadway Philadelphia, fails to cast a magic spell. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Philadelphia Artists' Collective brings serious acting to a very silly play based on a 19th-century true crime tale. Cara Blouin reviews.
Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo, the legendary designer behind many of Broadway's most iconic posters, has put together a book looking back at his remarkable career: Fraver by Design: 5 Decades of T…
RuPaul's Drag Race All-Star Braden Chapman (a.k.a., Mimi Imfurst) heads reTHEATER's 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' but sexual harassment allegations that dogged him offstage won't disappear af…
Simpatico Theatre's production of Caridad Svich's 'Red Bike' serves the playwright better than its script. Cara Blouin reviews.
Philadelphia Artists' Collective resurrects the melodrama with 'Maria Marten, or, The Murder in the Red Barn.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Taylor Mac's 'A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Part II' approaches perfect unity of music, text, and performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Bassem Youssef had to leave Egypt when his government decided they'd had enough of his political satire; PIFA offered him a stage and little else. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
'The Helen Project,' a new play from the ReVamp Collective and Plays & Players, takes a new look at the old "face that launched a thousand ships." Mark Cofta reviews.
600 Highwaymen's 'The Fever,' presented locally by PIFA, tests the limits of audience interaction. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Barcode Circus Company's 'Sweat and Ink' brings exciting feats to the stage along with an interesting story, but sometimes those lines blur in unfortunate ways. Cara Blouin reviews.
Plastic Boom's PIFA juggling show is more earthbound than it sounds. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
It's not only an international arts festival, it's an interspecies one, too. 'Doggie Hamlet' takes the audience outside and demands the cooperation of people, dogs, and sheep. Alaina Mabaso …
