4,285 stories from Broad Street Review
The Delaware Symphony Orchestra continues its distanced season with a livestream of rich musical narratives from Smetana, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky. Gail Obenreder reviews.
'Concrete Cowboy,' Ricky Staub's directorial debut, provides a compelling and beautifully rendered look at the subculture of Black horsemanship in North Philadelphia. Stephen Silver reviews.
In her new memoir, playwright Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes writes about coming of age as part of a large Puerto Rican family in North Philadelphia. Kirsten Bowen reviews.
'Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven,' a new collection from Pennsylvania poet Grant Clauser, evokes the hope of searching for home in a broken world. Kelly Conrad reviews.
Rennie Harris Puremovement offers embodied history for our times in a livestream performance from the Annenberg. Melissa Strong reviews.
After a pandemic cancellation last season, pianist Richard Goode returns to Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with a striking program of Bach, Beethoven and Debussy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Abigail Adams's famous "remember the ladies" letter returns to Philly for the first time since she sent it to her husband in 1776, and composer Melissa Dunphy gives it new life. Gail Obenred…
Maulik Pancholy superbly embodies more than 40 characters in George Street Playhouse's 'Fully Committed,' but Becky Mode's restaurant comedy shows its age in uncomfortable ways. Cameron Kels…
'Travel by Haiku, volumes 6"10: Far Out on the Road with Friends' offers free spirits a backseat in a collaborative road trip across the American West. Helen Walsh reviews.
PCMS presents classical guitarist Jason Vieaux and cellist Clancy Newman on a livestreamed program of mostly Latin American and Spanish classical works, with a surprising rock encore. Linda …
Women's History Month is rife with content celebrating the achievements of women, and classical music is no exception. Meg Ryan is cranky about it.
A year after theaters around the country suspended in-person performances due to the pandemic, Cameron Kelsall speaks with Philadelphia theater artists about looking back and moving forward.
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong's 'Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning' explores Asian American consciousness and tackles the truth about anti-Asian hate. Christina Anthony conside…
In Patrick Shields's debut autobiographical novel, 'Pinball,' set in the early 1990s, we follow a senior at a North Philadelphia boarding academy as he reckons with his past, present, and fu…
The Print Center's 95th Annual International Competition Exhibition showcases three artists out of hundreds of entrants, and, for the first time, presents the winning art digitally. Pamela F…
The Philadelphia Orchestra's latest program brings together chamber-sized wind compositions by Mozart and Valerie Coleman. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Since the pandemic has left us longing for live music, Nancy Barile's new punk-scene memoir, 'I'm Not Holding Your Coat,' is an especially welcome window on a bygone musical era. Chelsea Spe…
The Arden adapts its 2019 production of '74 Seconds… To Judgment' into a provocative, meta radio play. Kyle V. Hiller reviews.
Ephraim Asili's 'The Inheritance,' a thought-provoking new film about a Black socialist collective in West Philadelphia, combines fictional characters with real-life appearances by veterans …
Dancer and choreographer Hope Boykin premieres 'Redefine US, from the INside OUT,'
a personal and emotional journey that explores identity through suffering and renewal. Camille Bacon-Smith…
BalletX concludes its spring season of world premieres as it began, dancing with the camera in three new short films by choreographers Maddie Hanson ('Virtuality'), Gustavo Ramirez Sansano (…
EgoPo's production of 'Rockaby,' Beckett's avant-garde classic, performed for an audience of one, is the perfect anniversary marker of the pandemic age. Jill Ivey reviews.
CAPA students made the McDonald's across the street a second home between classes and concerts, where the drama never stopped and nobody went hungry. Isabel Soisson remembers.
How have we weathered the last year? Let us count the ways. Births. Zooms. Funerals. The hugs we missed. Anndee Hochman is still realizing that anything can happen.
Especially when many of us are spending extra time at home, what does being a good neighbor really mean? Roz Warren listens in.
