4,164 stories from Broad Street Review
Be Holding and Angel Dose hit the stage and screen, Memorial Day at the MoAR, and the return of the Northern Liberties Night Market. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Flooding from 2021's Hurricane Ida destroyed most of the archive from Spiral Q's 27-year history of community art and advocacy, but enough remains for an urgent and engaging exhibition at Ne…
Piffaro closes its season with Entre dos Ãlamos, a musical trip to South America including Spanish and Indigenous texts and music, proving that great music has always been created everywh…
Hedgerow marks its 100th season with the world premiere of Juliette Dunn's The Puzzle, which reveals complex inner worlds for all of us, whether or not we communicate by speaking. Gabrielle …
On the way to the shore, writer and teacher Bart Stump noticed an intriguing destination while crossing the Ben Franklin: Camden's Battleship New Jersey, which turns a massive US warship int…
The Print Center presents Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce, a surreal mixed-media exhibition about work, industry, power, and people. Emily B. Schilling reviews.
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…
Kyle V. Hiller rounds up the week, with selections from the African American Museum of Philadelphia, the Mann, drag queen Sasha Velour, and a special edition of Vinyl Tap 215.
Gail Obenreder previews the rest of May's classical music offerings, with events from Astral Artists, Artcinia, Orchestra 2001, Lyric Fest, and Relâche.
The festival is back after a four-year hiatus, with Kosha Dillz and Karen Cinnamon leading the way. Stephen Silver previews.
BSR is the media partner for the PVLA Arts Affair! Podcast host Darnelle sits down with PVLA leaders to find out how lawyers and artists empower each other, what services PVLA offers, and ho…
The Philadelphia Orchestra gives its first full rendition of composer-in-residence Gabriela Lena Frank's Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra, and a thrilling rendition of Berlioz's Symphonie F…
Josephine Baker presides in spirit over McCarter's new production of Blues for an Alabama Sky, in which friends in a 1930s Harlem tenement ask what we gain and lose when we stay or leave. Je…
It's a great time whenever the BSR community gets together, and we're branching out to welcome some of the city's top food journalists for an exciting discussion panel (and delicious local f…
The all-women dance troupe taps into the old and familiar and blend it with new and refreshing in this year's edition of On Tap. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
Tempesta di Mare explores the music of Baroque Venetian charitable institutions that were famous for their vocal and instrumental ensembles, made up of brilliant women artists who were hidde…
Jane Eyre gets a new stage treatment in this ambitious adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, which showcases the inner life of the passionate and principled governess. Alaina Jo…
In 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…
Quintessence marks new ground with a world-premiere production in collaboration with Chicago's New Classics Collective, examining the life of Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved poet who gained wo…
Philadelphia Orchestra concludes its 2022-23 season, School of Rock and The Puzzle come to the theater stage, and a fashion show for the cultura. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
The Philadelphia Ballet concludes its season with Coppélia, a new full-length work full of humor and fantasy, featuring choreography by artistic director Angel Corella. Melissa Strong previ…
At last week's Philadelphia Orchestra concert, Yannick Nézet-Séguin was so frustrated by repeatedly ringing phones that he stopped the music. What's behind the growing smartphone scourge? …
Koresh Dance Company welcomed musician Sage DeAgro-Ruopp to a performance combining dance, live music, and theater in Masquerade, the company's 2023 Home Season show. Melissa Strong reviews.
Like many university art collections, St. Joseph's is an eclectic one, but it now boasts an elegant new home in the former quarters of the Barnes Foundation. Gail Obenreder visits.
Azuka Theatre presents the world premiere of Christine Evans's Galilee, which brings a personal dimension to the threat of climate change. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
