PHS presents the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show: United By Flowers by An Nichols

The Flower Show is here through Sunday, March 10! An Nichols has your guide to entry on a budget plus suggestions for connecting with Philly gardens year-round, and Alaina Johns has a look a…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 7:36pm on March 4, 2024☆⚑

Marian Anderson Museum presents Porgy and Bess by An Nichols

The Marian Anderson Historical Society will host a performance of Porgy and Bess, and looks to continue the Museum's challenging reconstruction project. An Nichols previews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 5:19pm on February 28, 2024☆⚑

Passage Theatre Presents Richard Bradford and Anthony Martinez-Briggs's Ghetto Gods in Divineland by An Nichols

Ghetto Gods in Divineland, now getting its world premiere in Trenton, has successful interdisciplinary elements of music, poetry, and dance, but the script doesn't follow through on its ambi…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:23am on February 13, 2024☆⚑

Bristol Riverside Theatre presents Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun by An Nichols

A new production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun at Bristol Riverside Theatre honors this monumental American text while highlighting relevant struggles today. An Nichols reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:41pm on February 6, 2024☆⚑

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Shubert Organization present Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations by An Nichols

Ain't Too Proud, on its first national tour and getting its Philly premiere, follows the lives, loves, and moves of the Motown-hitmaking super group The Temptations, but questions about gend…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:49pm on January 9, 2024☆⚑

Chris Davis presents One-Man Nutcracker by An Nichols

Chris Davis has been bringing his fresh and funny one-man take on The Nutcracker to Philly theaters since 2019. This year, the still-delightful show lands at the Drake. An Nichols reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:15pm on December 15, 2023☆⚑

Five reasons to attend the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention by An Nichols

An Nichols previews the 2023 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention and how the ECBACC works towards cultural awareness, youth literacy, and building safe spaces for geekdom.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:25pm on July 12, 2023☆⚑

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights by An Nichols

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes's In the Heights relies on the life of a neighborhood for its drama, and a smooth, sparkling production from Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:59pm on June 19, 2023☆⚑

Bristol Riverside Theatre presents Douglas Lyons's Chicken & Biscuits by An Nichols

Chicken & Biscuits at Bristol Riverside Theatre gathers common tropes of the family funeral genre, but its performances and design meld comedy and drama for a fun family night. An Nichol…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:44pm on May 22, 2023☆⚑

Lyric Fest presents Cotton by An Nichols

Cotton, an immersive multimedia experience recreating generational trauma, marks Lyric Fest's 20th anniversary, with new music by Damien Geter and a slate of poets inspired by the photograph…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 4:22pm on February 27, 2023☆⚑

People's Light presents George Stevens Jr's Thurgood by An Nichols

People's Light stages this informative and engaging one-man drama about lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who became the first Black justice on the US Supreme Court. An Nichols reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:20pm on February 27, 2023☆⚑

A look back: why the Philly theater scene needs the Black Lives Matter movement by An Nichols

Writer An Nichols followed the recent national social justice explosion that rocked the Philly theater community, but she wanted to look closer, speaking with local artists about their exper…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 4:52pm on October 26, 2021☆⚑

Racism is a lifetime of tiny cuts. They won't stop unless we all speak up. by An Nichols

The George Floyd protests helped An Nichols to reflect on her past in a white-dominated culture.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 6:22pm on June 16, 2020☆⚑