4,217 stories from Broad Street Review
After the demise of LOVE Park as we know it, beloved by skateboarders nationwide, Drexel invites those wheels inside for a participatory multimedia exhibition.
In The Eumenides, Aeschylus first captured that moment when pre-literate Greeks first turned away from revenge and looked instead to the goddess Athena for wisdom, justice and reason. It's n…
Readers respond about the Philly Pops, a composer's drive on Broad Street, 'Sex With Strangers,' baby boomers, love of snow, Lyric Fest's 'Letters Set to Music,&apo…
Think Alan Ayckbourn is the English Neil Simon? Think again. He's more like the English Anton Chekhov.
Seen together in repertory, Shakespeare's romantic comedy Twelfth Night and the tragic Macbeth are greater than the sum of their parts.
Puccini's neglected Il Tabarro usually gets no respect. But it shines in an innovative new production by the Academy of Vocal Arts.
In 1the 1920s the repressed protagonist of Machinal murdered her husband. Today's women have found healthier outlets for their frustrations.
After nearly 90 years, Sophie Treadwell's Machinal still packs its Expressionist message about the dehumanization of people " especially women " in a mechanized society.
A magical nighttime spectacle that goes back centuries crosses the globe to land in Philly this year, along with food, drinks, and family fun.
When Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, he confronted mindless bigotry, especially in Philadelphia. But some white Philadelphian rejoiced, as I can personally attest.
Some plays are too traumatic to sit through. I found myself in that bind last week, watching The Father and Blackbird" both well written and directed, both powerfully performed, both dealing…
Free speech is one good thing we can never get too much of. Even when the speaker is Donald Trump.
Why did an entertainer like Prince inspire a classical pianist like me? Because he refused to be pigeonholed or controlled by any force except the Almighty.
Whether you love 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' Neil Gaiman, cats, or just the joy of the shelves, this nation-wide celebration of independent bookstores is worth a look in Philly.
The SpongeBob Musical is heading your way, and it'll be hard to ignore the bubbles it will make when it hits the stage this summer for its debut, pre-Broadway run. Ahead of its June premiere…
Cast members and creative team share memories of Jonathan Larson reflect on the show's 20th anniversary at BroadwayCon
Who insisted the voices of six white, male baby boomers needed to be heard among Broadway's groundbreaking new musical arrivals, all groundbreaking because they stepped away from Diner's reg…
There is tremendous amount of talent, and a long list of credits, behind School of Rock, the Broadway musical of version of the 2003 Jack Black comedy. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the score. D…
The bad (and frankly a little surprising) news about On Your Feet, the new musical by, about, and featuring the songs of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, is that at no point through its nearly two…
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea AND is coming to Broadway? SpongeBob Squarepants! The pop culture phenomenon based on the Nickelodeon television show, which earlier this year spawned …
On Sunday night's Tony Awards, history was made. Unfortunately, it was made during the commercial breaks. Early in the three-hour show, while viewers at home watched commercials for the wide…
The treat of Canada's Shaw Festival, held annually in the charming, flower-filled town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, is that it offers productions of plays you rarely get to see- not only by Georg…
At least since the Holocaust, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has been widely reviled as an anti-Semitic screed. But Al Pacino's majestic portrayal of Shylock in New York suggests an entirely different interpretation: of Jews (and Israel too) surrounded by a hostile world.
As a pre-teen and young teen in the late 1940s and early '50s, I often found myself singing two old songs to myself. I had no idea how they got there. Then one day my mother told me.
