This bold and ambitious adaption of Othello from Philly-based Palestinian director Zaina Yasmin Dana weaves the original text with the modern realities of an ongoing war, with mixed but impr…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:51PMLA-based Lebanese American actor, writer, and producer Myria Ali-Ahmad brings her award-winning solo show, Handala: A Celebration of Palestine, to this year’s Philly Fringe. Krista Mar rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:13PMThe Climb, the latest world premiere onstage at InterAct, examines the white gaze in feminism, academia, and art, asking questions about power, consent, and commodification. Krista Mar revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:28AMPhilly author Joseph Earl Thomas’s fierce and unusual memoir, Sink, follows his boyhood in 1990s Frankford, where fiction, fantasy, and reality collide. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:29PMNone of Philly’s regional theaters have ever staged a full production of a non-solo show by a local AAPI playwright. Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists' new playwriting cohort wants to …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:27PMChristina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home, which explores a family on the front lines of desegregation in Kansas, gets its regional premiere at People’s Light. Krist…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:06PMCrumbs from the Table of Joy, a lesser-known early work by Lynn Nottage, one of America’s most popular playwrights, still feels relevant in this Lantern Theater production. Krista Mar revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:20PMPriyanka Shetty’s The Elephant in the Room, a solo autobiographical show about an Indian software engineer turned theater artist, is proving the creator’s performance chops in its Philly…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:46AMSolo performer Joseph Ahmed teams up with director Cat Ramirez for Half Magic, a Cannonball Festival show on grief and mixed-race identity through theater, circus, and storytelling. Krista M…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:29PMJustin Jain puts his own spin on Anton Chekhov’s The Dangers of Tobacco in this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:47PMIn the regional premiere of sandblasted at Theatre Horizon, Black women in a desert landscape are trying to survive in a world that is literally making their bodies fall apart. Krista Mar re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:59PMInterAct presents the world premiere of pay no worship, a play about very different cousins on a small Cape Verde island who grapple with the effects of climate change, despite too often bei…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:18PMAzuka teams with Teatro del Sol for the world premiere of AZ Espinoza’s All My Mothers Dream in Spanish, a magical exploration of ancestry and healing that’s also very much of the moment…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:33PMA Western take on a Syrian soap opera gets a surprising twist in Guillermo Calderón’s Kiss, by turns hilarious and wrenching. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:35PMThe Arden restages its popular adaptation of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web with a new cast sure to delight audiences of all ages. Krista Mar reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:27PMThe Philly premiere of A Hit Dog Will Holler, onstage at Azuka, contrasts the online and IRL realms of today’s social activists, with a special lens on Black women in these spaces. Krista …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:51AMThis tender, interdisciplinary Cannonball Festival performance from Matthew Armstead explores the hopeful acts of healing from trauma, homophobia, and racism. Krista Mar reviews.
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