4,217 stories from Broad Street Review
'The Lyons' roars with genuine frustration while audiences roar with laughter in Nicky Silver's dark farce from Isis Productions. Mark Cofta reviews.
A new one-woman show from a local comedy favorite details the aftermath of suppressed traumatic memories, mixing a trigger warning with laughs. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
The Beserker Residents' 2015 Fringe hit 'It's So Learning' schools us on the charms and terrors of K-12 education. Mark Cofta reviews.
The Arden Theatre Company's production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' might not seem new, but it's still great. Mark Cofta reviews.
Music Theatre Philly hopes to train the next generation of Philadelphia's musical theater artists. REP Radio's Darnelle Radford speaks with its founder, Mindy Dougherty.
Bernard Pomerance's 1979 Tony Award-winning 'The Elephant Man,' revived by the University of Delaware's Resident Ensemble Players, proves relevant today, and probably always. Mark Cofta revi…
'A Piece of the World' brings to life the enigmatic psychological landscape of the title character of Andrew Wyeth's famous painting, 'Christina's World.' Courtenay Harris Bond reviews.
A still-funny tribute to lyricist/composer Tom Lehrer who rose to fame in the 1960s for his outrageously wicked lampoons of political and social life. Stacia Friedman reviews.
The Tony Award-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' serves the book well " and makes a satisfying theater experience too. Mark Cofta …
Douglas Williams's world premiere 'Shitheads,' produced by Azuka, not only reveals a bike shop's wheels and gears, but also how work families function.
John Pollono's 'Lost Girls' takes a while to find it s way home, but Theatre Exile's area premiere eventually reveals its good qualities. Mark Cofta reviews.
Romance battles with drama on area stages in March. Drama wins with more productions, but the plays about love are big-cast classics.
'The Gift,' Will Stutts's imagined meeting between Harper Lee and Truman Capote is built on "alternative facts." SaraKay Smullens reviews.
Thornton Wilder's neglected classic, 'The Matchmaker,' defies categorization, but People's Light and Theatre's revival proves its worthiness. Mark Cofta reviews.
Chris Davis's one-man play 'The Last Emperor of Mexico,' performed in a bodega/butcher shop, shows the Fringe aesthetic succeeds year-round. Mark Cofta reviews.
Erin Markey's 'A Ride on the Irish Cream' is an exhilarating new performance with music about childhood travails. Mark Cofta reviews
Hedgerow Theatre's 'Uncle Vanya' continues a run of fine local productions of Anton Chekhov's plays. Mark Cofta reviews.
Inis Nua's American premiere of Lee Coffey's 'Leper + Chip' is a short, violent love story and a must-see production. Mark Cofta reviews.
Jean Giraudoux's 'The Enchanted' blends fairytale magic with philosophical musings in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Constortium's delightfully complex fantasy world. Mark Cofta reviews.
Lightning Rod Special and Strange Attractor's 'Sans Everything' fast forwards through millennia, when human existence has outstripped our physical bodies, and vacation takes on a whole new m…
David Robson's new farce 'After Birth of a Nation' about a meeting between director D. W. Griffith and President Woodrow Wilson, squanders opportunities and churns out cheap laughs. Mark Cof…
Curio Theatre Company's production of Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' goes for the laugh, but is there a punchline, or a gut punch? Chris Braak reviews.
Theatre Horizon's 'Grand Concourse' serves up a powerful story that satisfies many needs. Mark Cofta reviews.
EgoPo's bold staging of Chekhov's 'The Seagull' refreshes familiar territory and brings it into the now. Mark Cofta reviews.
The Kimmel Center invited Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to perform inspired new works and classic favorites. Alix Rosenfeld reviews.
