Monday, February 6, 2023
InterAct Theatre Company’s 35th
anniversary season continues with a world premiere about a distinctly Jewish emigrant experience set not in the Ukraine of 2023, but the post-Soviet Ukraine…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:58AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Philadelphia Theatre Company launches its 2022–2023 season with new artistic directors and a world premiere musical that shines bright despite a disappointing performance from its celebrit…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:08PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
More a work of theater than a play, Tall Order’s Those with 2 Clocks, now onstage at the Wilma, is funny, provocative, and beautifully designed. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:15PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
The Living Gallery, an immersive, walk-through art installation, hosts Fringe performances of Unorthodox Methods of Cosmic Flight, a charmingly maximalist experience following a pair of wann…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:35PMFriday, September 30, 2022
Four historical figures, two time-travelers, and one figure whose story is yet to be told dance their way across the centuries Bill & Ted-style in a dance-theater piece about life, art, …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:10PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
Die-Cast’s Baal & Dix is everything a Fringe show is supposed to be: immersive, imaginative, a little inscrutable…and short. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:39AMTuesday, September 6, 2022
Recording a Fringe performance means you can air it again in future festivals. But as “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!) shows, that’s not always a good …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:59PMThursday, July 28, 2022
For its 16th production, Shakespeare in Clark Park presents one of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays…and a refreshing antidote. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:29PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Lynn Nottage’s modern classic is a funny, fourth-wall-breaking work of art under the direction of Amina Robinson for Lantern Theater Company. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:29PMFriday, May 13, 2022
The new work by Philly’s own Pulitzer Prize winner, James Ijames, explores what gets left behind when a person dies without having authentically lived. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:44AMMonday, May 9, 2022
Theatre Exile’s production of Succession writer Susan Soon He Stanton’s charming play shows just how possible it is to feel alone, even when you spend your life talking to other people. …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:45PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
The Wilma gives Chekhov’s classic a chaotic, colorful modern update—complete with a sentient train station departure sign. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:49PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Drawing parallels between Covid closures and a 1608 outbreak of the plague, Quintessence continues its 2022 return to the stage with two plays that reopened London theaters in 1610. Jill Ive…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:18PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Val Dunn’s world-premiere play reckons with changes to Carroll County, Maryland, amidst the opioid epidemic and the suburbanization of once-outlying small towns. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:53AMMonday, March 7, 2022
Following protests by a cohort of Philadelphia artists taking aim at the Walnut’s leadership, the theater produces a shlocky, self-indulgent, and sometimes cringeworthy adaptation of Sherl…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:42PMMonday, February 28, 2022
Philadelphia Theatre Company closes out its 2021-22 season with Choir Boy, combining must-see artistry with characters and stories that need more space on our city’s stages. Jill Ivey revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:06PMMonday, December 13, 2021
In Two Outta Three, Jennifer Childs and Scott Greer become empty nesters and explore what's next with their signature humor and charm. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:34AMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Taking from Nancy E. Davis’s meticulously researched book of the same name, Lloyd Suh’s The Chinese Lady introduces audiences to the first Chinese woman to arrive in America for a story …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:00AMMonday, November 1, 2021
In SOON, Nick Blaemire’s new musical, there’s a major climate event on the horizon…so it’s pretty tempting to just stay home and hide out with the 24-hour news cycle. Jill Ivey revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:52PMSaturday, September 25, 2021
For its contribution to the 2021 Fringe Festival, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective presents a straightforward monologue battle . . . or is it? Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:25AMFriday, September 24, 2021
A scavenger hunt of sorts, FOUND encourages you to wander down Philadelphia side streets—or navigate an interactive Google map from home—to discover a world of the fey. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:34PMFriday, September 17, 2021
Performed for an audience of two, on opposite ends of the city, Nichole Canuso’s Being/With is less of a performance and more of an experience. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:08PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Staged in several South Philly parks, R. Eric Thomas’s The Ever Present is a family-friendly look at the magic of South Philadelphia and what gets lost as gentrification moves in. Jill Ive…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:04PMTuesday, May 11, 2021
After 14 months of social distancing, 1812 Productions injects life into Zoom ubiquity with ‘The Way I Walk.’ Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:58PMTuesday, May 4, 2021
EgoPo’s production of Adam Rapp’s 2001 ‘Nocturne’ defies the company’s “classic theater” mission, but feels nonetheless like a Greek tragedy, catharsis and all. Jill Ivey revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:52PMMonday, March 15, 2021
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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:41PMMonday, February 8, 2021
Though ambitious and full of potential, Almanac Dance Circus Theatre’s ‘The Fleecing’ is marred by an overcomplicated format and technological limitations. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PMTuesday, October 13, 2020
The Phoenix Theatre in Chester Springs embraces Zoom with its presentation of ‘Henry VI, Part III,’ one of the Bard’s lesser-performed histories. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:32PMSaturday, October 3, 2020
Mezzo-soprano Maren Montalbano has long shared steamy stories with her castmates, and now she’s bringing them to your living room in ‘The Bodice Ripper Project’ for this year’s Fring…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:28AMMonday, September 28, 2020
Despite its promising music and lyrics, the digital world premiere production ‘Crossover’ is failed by the virtual reality of 2020. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:19PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
With 2020 making many of us acutely aware of our own mortality, a slow stroll with Death, as in Irina Varina's Fringe offering, 'An Encounter,' just makes sense. Jill Ivey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:32PM 
