4,280 stories from Broad Street Review
Previewing a variety of fall-inspired events, the Out and About Festival in Manayunk, and a block party to unveil a new mural in Africatown. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
After managing coverage for dozens of Fringe shows, Alaina Johns is proud of the BSR team's work, proud of Philly artists, and ready to share her top takeaways from this year's festival.
New seasons begin with Brandywine Baroque, Philadelphia Orchestra, Tempesta di Mare, and the Parisian salon of Winnaretta Singer. Gail Obenreder previews.
BalletX and Sharp Dance celebrate 20 years, and Kun-Yan Lin Dance makes a difficult decision. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
Kathryn Grody premieres her third autobiographical play, kick-starting the 2025-2026 season at People's Light with a brilliant marathon of a monologue. Emily Schilling reviews.
Playwright Savannah Reich pushes the boundaries of theatrical experience with her mashup of Oedipus and Sleepless in Seattle, two stories about fate, featuring new actors every night who hav…
Toni Nagy and Sarah Buckner's interdisciplinary duo performance Grape Culture held space in this year's Fringe for experiences of domination without consent. Melissa Strong reviews.
Julia VanderVeen's solo Fringe show, Dentata, incorporated wonderful production elements for a rich expression of female ferocity. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
The latest stage creation from Thaddeus McWhinnie Phillips, Around the World in 80 Toys, came to the FringeArts stage for the final weekend of the fest. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Catching Fireflies: A New Queer Musical is set in Philly, but was developed in New York before getting its local premiere in this year's Fringe. It celebrates joy and possibility for genderq…
Eboni Booth's Primary Trust, a play about the quiet dignity of an ordinary bookstore worker, won the 2024 Pulitzer for drama. Now it makes its local debut at Philadelphia Theatre Company. Ca…
Rhonda Moore and Ben Grinberg's Helpful Hints for Strength and Health for Busy People, part of the Cannonball Festival, is a unique and remarkable physical duet exploring how and why we inha…
Terms of Use: A Millennial Farce, a new Fringe show promising to examine Millennials' relationship with the Internet, isn't quite ready for the stage. But it poses questions worth building o…
Network for New Music and the Arden start their new seasons, getting spooky in Delco, and The Living Temple exhibit opens. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
The Lantern opens its 2025-2026 season with a smooth and engaging production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. AJ Sabatini reviews.
Spinner, a new play by hall-of-fame sportswriter, author, and playwright Ray Didinger, explores a father-son relationship through the life of a real Canadian hockey star who went from small-…
Opera Philadelphia opens its 50th season with a production of Rossini's comic Il viaggio a Reims, composed 200 years ago and transformed into a modern marvel thanks to 21st-century stagecraf…
nora chipaumire's "anti-genre" performance installation Dambudzo, part of the curated Fringe Festival, is a postcolonial fever dream. Melissa Strong reviews.
Traveling solo artist Megan Markham celebrates edgy, accessible storytelling in Witch with Her Skirt on Fire, an expertly performed trio of tales that reclaim the word "witch" and the women …
For Fringe, espionage and music in colonial Philadelphia. Gail Obenreder reviews The Publick Pleasure's Sympathy Towards a Soldier.
After years of performing a solo show about her own medical and mental health struggles (for international Fringe audiences as well as doctors), Anna Snapp brings I Found That the Sun Will R…
A double bill from a pair of Brooklyn-based choreographers explores adolescence through queer and Asian American lenses, with You're Actually the Last Person I Wanted to See Today and ZOO! K…
In a first for 1812 and an exciting move for the Curated Fringe, Tanaquil Márquez and Eliana Fabiyi's ambitious, funny, and magical new play La Otra, a bilingual production, comes to the …
An unhappy family with Chekhovian undertones takes center stage in Bristol Riverside Theatre's handsome production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Josh McIlvain of Philly's Automatic Arts is back in this year's Fringe with his popular Slideshow, a performance built around a real-life carousel of a stranger's vintage family photos. Walt…
