Wednesday, September 4, 2024
The Fringe calendar is always a bit overwhelming: with hundreds of performances throughout the city, where should you begin? Alaina Johns helps out by sharing some of the shows that caught h…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:50AMThe Philadelphia Fringe Festival happens in venues throughout the city, and this year, more shows are popping up in South Philly than ever before. Alaina Johns rounds up the ones she’s hop…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:40AMTuesday, August 20, 2024
A Well-Trained Wife, Tia Levings’s gripping new memoir about her path in and out of a high-control Christian religion, is also an urgent warning to US voters who care about women’s right…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:05PMTuesday, July 16, 2024
Disability Intimacy, the second essay collection from editor Alice Wong, dives into the ocean of human connection with a disability lens, from dating, sex, and kink to caregiving, parenting,…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:06PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Sometimes I think books are the only thing keeping me sane(ish).
Fiction, nonfiction, memoir, a new lens on Jane Austen, anti-marriage
manifestos, and more: here are top recommendations from…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:45PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
BSR writers are also memoirists, poets, novelists, scholars, and so much more! Discover their books and order a copy to add to your shelves.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:53PMSunday, June 2, 2024
Do you love books? We do, too! Philly's literary scene is an important part of our cultural scene, and we spotlight it in our annual BSR Book Week. Learn more here!
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:49PMTuesday, May 28, 2024
Philly’s theater community rejoiced at
hearing that the Wilma will receive the 2024 Regional Theatre Tony Award at
this year’s ceremony on Sunday, June 16. It’s a huge reason to keep f…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:50PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Mural Arts and First Person Arts teamed up for a show tackling stigma around mental illness and suicide—unusual topics for public storytelling. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, A…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:14PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Editor-in-chief Alaina Johns joins forces with contributing critic Josh Herren for a conversation about Theatre Exile's PHILLY GRIT, an exciting trio of solo shows by Philly women artists.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:31PMMonday, May 13, 2024
Join us on Zoom for two exciting BSR events: our latest webinar about review-writing on May 29, and a Philly publishing panel with some of our region's top writers and editors on June 6.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:42PMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Our democracy, our climate, our rights, our health, our wars and protests—it’s hard to look at any news at all without feeling like the world is ending. Spend seven minutes with Alaina J…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:33PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
When Quintessence artistic director Alex Burns announced plans for his latest all-male Shakespeare production, he struck a nerve with the local theater community. He talks with Alaina Johns …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:08PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
In January, the BSR community lost one of our founding members: science-fiction and music writer Tom Purdom. Near the end of his career, he never balked at having a youngster for his editor.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:59PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
The Philly nonprofit Art-Reach, which
connects our disability community to our cultural scene, partners with Philadelphia
Theatre Company for Cost of Living, a show about the complexities of…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:19PMTuesday, January 9, 2024
One drawback of working in the media is that your smallest mistakes are extremely visible to the public. Everyone loves to point out typos and errors, but only some of us are helping. Alaina…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:37PMMonday, December 18, 2023
Philly artist Chuck Schultz has been in the audience at concerts, plays, and dance performances throughout 2023. Now he shares the performances through his own eyes in this one-of-kind BSR g…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:19PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Did you know that BSR is Philly's top destination for professional arts journalism...and that we're a small, independent nonprofit made up entirely of remote-working part-timers? Here's how …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:31PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
In our experience, some people opine that the critics are just dragging the cultural scene down—especially when a review is mixed or negative. But is that true? Not at all. Alaina Johns ex…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:11PMMonday, November 13, 2023
What does arts journalism have to do with PR? As arts writers and editors, we often work closely with PR people. How do we collaborate? And what are the boundaries between our roles? Alaina …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:10PMTuesday, November 7, 2023
When we ask for your support, we want to be sure we’re stepping up to explain our work. But whether or not you can donate, if you’re a BSR reader, we bet you’ll enjoy this window on ho…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:57PMFriday, October 6, 2023
Mean Girls has been a sensation since the original film premiered in 2004—but it’s as funny as it is problematic. The Broadway musical, now on its national tour, is even more offensive, …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:30AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
BLACK WOOD, the latest from Gunnar Montana Productions, is an immersive, creepy, atmospheric experience perfect for spooky season. But we shouldn’t view it without talking about the violen…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:16PMMonday, September 25, 2023
Festival O23’s world-premiere production of composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch’s 10 Days in a Madhouse is fresh, urgent, and relevant. Alaina Johns reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:32PMThursday, September 7, 2023
Solo performer Hannah Parke’s new piece on navigating a devastating epilepsy diagnosis is exactly the kind of work that makes the Fringe exciting. If only the venue was bearable. Alaina Jo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:32PMTuesday, August 29, 2023
Editor-in-chief Alaina Johns has her picks for this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival, including offerings from Cannonball, Free Fringe, and Digital Fringe.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:45PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
Alaina Johns and Kyle V. Hiller curate a variety of books from a variety of writers living with disabilities for this year’s BSR book week.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:12PMMonday, July 10, 2023
For the first time since BSR’s founding 18 years ago (wow, we know), we’re spotlighting books written by our contributors, who are some of the region’s top critics, essayists, and arts…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:10PMTuesday, June 20, 2023
Last week, the Museum of the American Revolution hosted a screening of Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia while protestors of an upcoming Moms for Liberty party at the museum …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:50PMWe're celebrating summer with our first-ever BSR Book Week, July 10-16, 2023, packed with reviews and recommendations. And we want to hear from you, too! Here are all the ways you can join i…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:51PMTuesday, June 13, 2023
The Philly Marriott and the Museum of the American Revolution are drawing criticism for hosting the anti-government, anti-education, anti-LGBTQ+ nonprofit Moms for Liberty. It’s not just a…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:04PM 
