4,212 stories from Broad Street Review
Summer movie screenings happening in the Philly area this month, including This Is Spinal Tap, Con Air, and a litany of Hitchcock seminars. Stephen Silver previews.
Previewing an exhibition that celebrates small-scale creativity, a performance that looks to laugh at a rare disorder, and a bazaar under the el in Fishtown. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
'Duet For One' by Martha Anne Toll tells a personal Philadelphia music story. Margaret Hutton profiles.
Fourth of July with Chocolate Ballerina Company, summer with BalletX, and a pair of PHILADANCO celebrates 55 years. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
A June 22 performance of West Chester Dance Works' Rachel Harris: One Woman Over the Line at the Performance Garage celebrated Juneteenth with a vibrant, relevant imagining of one real-life …
Despite cruel NEA cuts, PlayPenn's 2025 New Play Development Conference opens on July 5. Camille Bacon-Smith sits down with conference leaders and resident playwright Lori Felipe-Barkin.
An elegant conceptual exhibition at the Brandywine Museum of Art explores conservation, the act of noticing, and the poetics of nature and art through the lens of Emily Dickinson's garden an…
In an eerie, exquisite show at Michener Art Museum, stained-glass artist Judith Schaechter explores the darker emotions and stories that make beauty and joy possible by contrast. Pamela J. F…
Listen in as podcast host Darnelle Radford gets an inside look at the Wilma's acclaimed acting company, and their season-closing show, A Summer Day.
Rounding up a variety of Juneteenth events in Philadelphia. Kyle V. Hiller previews.
The June 14 No Kings Day, organized to reclaim the American flag and oppose unconstitutional actions by the Trump administration in favor of democracy and the rule of law, drew millions of m…
In a unique program at Bartram's Garden, including an Andalusian-inspired dinner, composer/performer Daniel de Jesús honored Federico GarcÃa Lorca with voice and music. Anndee Hochman …
With Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, author Amy Jane Cohen places Black history at the heart of our city while honoring Black people not as victims, but as agents and victors. L…
For the start of its ambitious, community-centered Philly Cycle series, InterAct teams with Theatre in the X for this warm, involving exploration of love and faith for two generations of Mus…
An ambitious new interdisciplinary stage show from Pig Iron imagines a pair of modern Philly teens who uncover a power source hidden since the days of Ben Franklin, and fight the forces of e…
Spare and devastating, the Wilma Theater's A Summer Day gives eloquent expression to the complexity of grief. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Small Ball, a fairy-tale musical about pint-sized basketball players, still needs a major assist. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Serafin Summer Music fills the air with a dozen performances this month, Dolce Suono returns to a 2012 performance, and Orchestra in the Garden blooms. Gail Obenreder previews.
Pride continues, spending three weeks in space, and dancing to reconnect with the earth. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up the week.
Both locally and nationally, dance is benefitting from increased visibility and representation of openly trans and/or nonbinary artists, but dance still clings to stereotypes of gender more …
Dive deep into three shows closing out the 2024-25 theater scene. Darnelle sits down with the artists behind Inis Nua's Square Go, PTC's Small Ball, and Theatre Exile's Glitter in the Glass.
A "doomsday" budget that would slash SEPTA service by 45 percent and raise fares by more than 20 percent poses an existential threat to Philly's cultural sector. But if we all speak up now, …
New Orleans glass bead artist Demond Melancon, a modern icon of the Mardi Gras tradition of Black Masking, a confluence of West African, Afro Caribbean, and Indigenous cultures, gets his fir…
With exclusive rights to the first stage adaptation ever approved by the Baldwin estate, Quintessence Theatre Group delivers a steamy, affecting treatise on the politics of queer love and de…
R. Eric Thomas's Glitter in the Glass gets its East Coast premiere at South Philly's Theatre Exile in a hilarious and thought-provoking production directed by Ontaria Kim Wilson. Krista Mar …
