Monday, March 24, 2025
Mt. Airy’s Quintessence welcomes spring with repertory productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antony & Cleopatra, an ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking by director…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:44AMMonday, January 27, 2025
Philly playwright Michael Hollinger’s Holy Grail of
Memphis, premiering at the Arden, follows the white owner of a historic
Memphis music studio where the lost recordings of a Black blues …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:52PMMonday, October 28, 2024
Larissa FastHorse’s satire The Thanksgiving Play, one of the most-produced plays in the country, gets its Philly premiere with Curio in a mostly hilarious production. C.M. Crockford review…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:31PMMonday, October 7, 2024
Fever Dream Repertory, a new local company, lands at Plays & Players for the Philly premiere of Mercury, a pitch-black horror comedy that evokes Hitchcock’s comedy and a queer and bloo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:12PMFriday, August 23, 2024
Theatre in the X presents One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, by Philly native playwright Don Evans, for its annual free production in West Philly’s Malcolm X Park. C.M. Crockford reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:21PMThursday, July 25, 2024
Annual summer favorite Shakespeare in Clark Park brings the Forest of Arden to West Philly in an energetic new adaptation of As You Like It directed by Ontaria Kim Wilson, running through Ju…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:49PMMonday, May 6, 2024
This rattling and thrilling new production of Maxim Gorky’s Children of the Sun, set in 1862 and written in a St. Petersburg prison in 1905, has devastating resonance for Americans in 2024…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:38PMMonday, March 18, 2024
A well-acted, well-crafted new production of the epic Lehman Trilogy now getting its regional premiere at the Arden can’t overcome this play’s moral bankruptcy. C.M. Crockford reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:23PMMonday, February 5, 2024
The world premiere of Jahna Ferron-Smith’s Step Mom, Step Mom, Step Mom, now onstage at InterAct, follows a Black woman and a white man navigating the sexual and racial dynamics of their m…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:14PMMonday, December 4, 2023
In Quintessence Theatre Group’s December production of The Fantasticks, complex poetries meet deceptively simple story and design, honoring both youthful sparks and older gratitude. C.M. C…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:48AMMonday, November 6, 2023
Macbeth in Stride, a new adaptation of the Shakespeare classic now onstage at Philadelphia Theatre Company, rocks but doesn’t dig its daggers deep enough. C.M. Crockford reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:33PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
A powerful new retelling of The Odyssey, based on Penn professor Emily Wilson’s translation, stops in Philly on its national tour, with New Jersey dates coming in November. C.M. Crockford …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:48AMWednesday, June 14, 2023
The SoLow Festival is an accessible local arts festival that doesn’t put financial pressure on the artists. This year, it’s exploring the concept of rest. C.M. Crockford previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:12PMMonday, June 5, 2023
The national Broadway tour of Beetlejuice the musical, stopping at the Academy of Music through June 11, 2023, sands the dark edges off the original in favor of feel-good clichés. C.M. Croc…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:55PMMonday, May 8, 2023
1812’s The Play That Goes Wrong, onstage at Plays & Players, brings the hilarity when things go egregiously, deliriously bad. C.M. Crockford reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:04PMMonday, April 3, 2023
Director and star Tony Braithwaite shines in Act II Playhouse’s Mistakes Were Made, a surprisingly emotional farce about the chaotic, horrible, hilarious reality of being a Broadway produc…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:46PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Inis Nua brings a popular Scottish playwright to the Philly stage with Meet Me At Dawn, but the performance is more moving than satisfying. C.M. Crockford reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:13PMWednesday, January 18, 2023
Opera Philadelphia brings its dark existential opera film to theaters this weekend. C.M. Crockford previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:59PMMonday, October 10, 2022
Hedgerow’s production of Martin McDonagh’s disturbing and thought-provoking drama The Pillowman is a worthy Philly-area destination this October. C.M. Crockford reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:42PMMonday, July 25, 2022
Philadelphia writer Shannon Frost Greenstein’s new poetry collection, These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things, chronicles a 21st-century life in which terror is part of daily existence…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:28PM 
