4,217 stories from Broad Street Review
Lisa Kron skillfully explores her father's past in a funny and poignant solo play at Theatre Horizon. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Quintessence Theatre Group's' Long Day's Journey into Night' excels with Eugene O'Neill's challenging excesses and succeeds. Mark Cofta reviews.
Inis Nua's U.S. premiere of 'The Swallowing Dark' explores memory and believability inconclusively. Mark Cofta reviews.
The Resident Ensemble Players' production of The 'Mountaintop' highlights the strengths of Katori Hall's popular play about Martin Luther King Jr. Mark Cofta reviews.
A familiar playwright launches a season of four plays with two October openings, a former Philly writer returns (sort of), and two top performers star in one-person shows.
The Resident Ensemble Players' splendid production of 'You Can't Take It with You' makes the 1936 comedy relevant again. Mark Cofta reviews.
Bristol Riverside Theatre spells success with its production of 'The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Media Theater's maddeningly inconsistent 'Carousel' can be chiefly characterized by what it lacks. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The sparkle of the Arden Theatre Company's 'Cabaret' overwhelms the Kander and Ebb musical's menace. Mark Cofta reviews.
Philadelphia playwright George Kelly once dominated Broadway. A rare revival of his 1924 comedy 'The Show-Off' suggests why. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Delaware Theatre Company sets its sights on Broadway, right past its own audiences, with a high-tech adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic novel 'Something Wicked This Way Comes.' Mark Cofta …
A Red Orchid Theatre's 'Simpatico' at McCarter isn't a fitting farewell for the late, great Sam Shepard. Mark Cofta reviews.
With bells, candles, a dark studio, a sheet, and a few artifacts from her life in dance, Fringe artist Julia Brandenberger expressed her own mix of theology and theater with an unusual funer…
An isolated English estate, orphaned children, a mysterious master, a young governess seeking her fortune " but Leila and Pantea Productions' Henry James adaptation is no love story on the m…
AntiGravity Theatre Project's 'Dear Diary LOL' celebrates memories of tween angst using real diaries. Mark Cofta reviews.
Pig Iron Theatre Company's epic Philly Fringe world premiere brings the spectacle of life on Earth to the stage. Toby Zinman reviews.
More often than not, the Walnut Street Theater's production of 'Souvenir' turns Florence Foster Jenkins into an object of ridicule. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Michael Kiley believes singing is for everyone, not just an elite few with "good" voices, and he invites the audience to experience the body as natural instrument. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
Juniper Productions premieres with four new one-acts by local writers performed at Philadelphia Distilling. Mark Cofta reviews.
The Lantern's Red Velvet shares the story of black actor Ira Aldridge, played by Forrest McClendon, in a timely production. Mark Cofta reviews.
After almost a century on Broad Street, the Merriam Theater is due for an upgrade. Architects are already consulting, developers will weigh in soon, and now is the time for the public to lis…
A New York performance troupe wonders just what is inside the mind of Kellyanne Conway, America's chief "pundette," and brings the show to the Philly Fringe. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
Dragon's Eye Theatre leads children on a library adventure in 'Follow Me Through the Gates.' Mark Cofta reviews.
The Beserker Residents team with University of the Arts for their Fringe show 'These Terrible Things,' a spoof of actor training. Mark Cofta reviews.
This Curated Fringe world premiere gets you out of your house and into another that might as well be your own. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
