Broad Street Review

1 week ago | broadstreetreview.com | Cameron Kelsall

In his home country of Norway, stagings of Fosse’s plays are second only to the nation’s most famous dramatist, Henrik Ibsen. They appear with far less frequency on this side of the Atlantic. I could only find one previous production of A Summer Day, by New York’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, in 2012. I hope the Wilma’s finely wrought endeavor will spark a stateside interest in Fosse’s exquisite miniatures.

2 weeks ago | broadstreetreview.com | Cameron Kelsall

Philadelphia Theatre Company celebrated its 50th anniversary with a gala performance of Small Ball, the new musical that closes the company’s golden season. Patrons nibbled on cupcakes piped with icing to look like miniature basketballs in the lobby of the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, and 6ABC’s Alicia Vitarelli—a self-professed “theater kid”—gave a rousing warm-up speech from the stage.

1 month ago | broadstreetreview.com | C.M. Crockford

Hubris and destruction Furey shades these figures as prophets or yogis, in their own inexplicable fashion; near-religious figures in a Modernist 20th-century age seemingly based on reason and rationality, even if their public lives seem cut from a materialist cloth. Bugs, cancers, and sickness flit across their lives as if to signify spiritual power, the strange connection between illness and clarity.

1 month ago | broadstreetreview.com | Camille Bacon-Smith

Aidan Un: You Don’t Have To Go Home, But…Wednesday, June 4, 7:00pmChrist Church Neighborhood House, 20 North American Street, Philadelphia Philadelphia Dance Project’s Dance Up Close season of collaborations ends with a special free screening of Aidan Un’s film You Don’t Have to Go Home, But…, a collaboration with dancer Vince Johnson about three dancers against the backdrop of the long-running hip-hop and house dance party Second Sundae. Dance jam follows the film.

1 month ago | broadstreetreview.com | Isabel Soisson

“People complain about the city, but city government is just made up of individual people,” declares one of the many plaques featured in Emilio Martínez Poppe’s Civic Views, a temporary public art project from Mural Arts celebrating the diverse perspectives of Philadelphia’s municipal employees. Organized by Mural Arts curator of public practice Jameson Paige, the installation is on view in the Philadelphia City Hall Courtyard until June 11, 2025.