4,170 stories from Broad Street Review
The painful end of a long friendship helped teach Michelle Chikaonda about the power of owning her own story"thanks also to a return to another favorite Hamilton song.
In Pennsylvania native Jennifer Niesslein's deeply personal new essay collection, she grapples with the personal, political, and cultural myths of America today. Grace Kennedy reviews.
BSR podcaster Darnelle Radford gets director Jeffrey L. Page into the digital studio to fill us in on creating PTC's new production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Tony-winning Choir Boy.
BSR podcaster Darnelle Radford gets writer and BSR social-media manager Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer in the digital studio with her teenager June, to talk about discovering and rediscovering RENT …
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 review…
Gail Obenreder previews OperaDelaware's return to the stage with The Barber of Seville.
The student-driven music and career skills program is solving systemic problems with systemic solutions as it helps youth and young adults in the community. Christina Anthony profiles.
Fine artist and scenic painter Erica Harney digs into a creative life centered around home with paintings of Lansdowne. Dara McBride profiles.
Network for New Music is honoring Jan Krzywicki, its ensemble conductor for more than 30 years, for his many contributions to the New Music community. David W. Webber profiles.
A week with healing comedy, streaming theater performances you may have missed, Afro-Cuban jazz, and a visit from author Farah Jasmine Griffin. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Following a panel discussion featuring Black alumni of the Philadelphia Ballet, Camille Bacon-Smith asked other Philly-connected Black male ballet dancers how they got into the field, what t…
Conductor Jeffrey Brillhart and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia highlighted the diversity of early modern music, showing how much vigor still resides in these oft-dismissed composition…
A special exhibition at Temple's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection celebrates the 200th birthdays of Harriet Tubman and Philadelphia abolitionist William Still. Pamela J. Forsythe…
A week featuring conversations with a seasoned writer, a novelist and her debut, and a local comic book hero of sorts binds up an assortment of music and museum events. Kyle V. Hiller rounds…
InLiquid Gallery commemorates the two-year anniversary of the pandemic start with RA Friedman's Trouble I've Seen: Drawings from the Covid-19 Portrait Project. Dara McBride previews.
The Barnes Foundation's newest exhibit will feature historic and contemporary Southwest Native art and explore the healing power of the arts and living traditions. Melissa Strong previews.
Trauma and abandonment reverberate throughout the lives of two sisters in Ariel Delgado Dixon's debut novel, Don't Say We Didn't Warn You. Kirsten Bowen reviews.
After flooding forced the Brandywine River Museum of Art to close for several months, it reopens with a delicious retrospective marking Wayne Thiebaud's 100th birthday. Gail Obenreder review…
Anndee Hochman's Walk Around Philadelphia began as a refuge from the first year of the
pandemic, but as her route continued into 2022, she remembered that living in Philly is a lifetime of c…
Theatre Exile's Motherf**cker with the Hat moves the setting of the hit play from New York to Philadelphia, with mixed results. Josh Herren reviews.
The touring production of Hadestown, a wildly popular retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, arrives at the Academy of Music with energy and verve. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
A week to observe a variety of cultures and identities with events from Hedgerow Theatre, DVAA, National Liberty Museum and Vinyl Tap 215, Temple University, and more. Kyle V. Hiller rounds …
"People of color," "BIPOC", "Latinx," and others have become household terms in the last five years in America. But with their origins largely ignored, these terms are becoming dangerous to …
In Dark History of Penn's Woods, Jennifer L. Green shines a light on the little-known, real-life historical terrors of Chester and Delaware counties, and how they inform our present. Josh Hi…
In This Bitter Earth, now onstage at InterAct, a Black playwright and a white activist see their relationship tested against police brutality and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.…
