Broad Street Review, The Podcast

The Motherf**ker with the Hat is presented by Theatre Exile in partnership with The Brothers’ Network . Directed by Ozzie Jones Honorary Producers Linda & David Glickstein Associate Producers Mark  & Tobey Dichter and Gayle & David Smith Featuring: J Hernandez, Amanda Schoonover, Scott Greer, Daniela Malavé, and Zach Valdez. Just released from prison, Jackie lives with his ch...

“Extra-Human: The Art of Michael Ferris” features larger-than-life figurative sculptures that Ferris created by fusing reclaimed discarded wood and pigmented grout through environmentally-conscious methods. The exhibition embodies a rich diffusion of cultural and artistic traditions and celebrates people’s heroism in our everyday lives. Originally trained as a painter,&nbs...

ABOUT A QUEER CHRISTMAS CAROL The Hum'n'bards Theater Troupe is thrilled to be partnering with the brand-new performance venue The Painted Mug Cafe to bring you A Queer Christmas Carol, a retelling of the classic ghost story by Charles Dickens...but this time every character is gay. On Christmas Eve, notorious miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits who vow to make him see the error of...

ABOUT CAMERON KELSALL Cameron Kelsall is a core theater critic for Broad Street Review and a regular freelance theater critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer . He is an editor and contributor for the website Exeunt NYC , where he writes about theater in New York at all professional levels. As a freelancer, his byline has appeared in American Theatre magazine, Opera News , Bachtrack , Time Out Philad...

ABOUT KYLE V. HILLER A West Philly native writer and interdisciplinary artist, Kyle (he/they) is the associate editor of Broad Street Review, the author of The Recital , and host of the gaming podcast SideQuest Enthusiast .

ABOUT ALAINA JOHNS Alaina Johns, the editor-in-chief of Broad Street Review , is a freelance writer and editor who landed squarely in what everyone says is the worst job of the 21st century. So she makes Philadelphia her classroom, writing about everything from spaceflight to toad migrations. Alaina has been a freelance journalist in Philadelphia since 2007, and specializes in covering arts and cu...

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Join us in The Wasp’s Nest, a devised sitcom-style presentation about a zany group of magical beings. A motley crew of Pearl, Fiorella, and unlucky Lucifer struggle with a seemingly simple task: what to do with a community garden? Spoiler Alert! It gets messy. Peppered with "commercials" of the most devilish sort, this show is the culmination of over a year of research, improvisations, writing exe...

Directed by Brett Ashley Robinson Featuring Kimie Muroya, Nathan Alford-Tate, Pax Ressler, Eleni Delopoulos, and Cathy Simpson The Ever Present, a fantastical, family-friendly new play written by award-winning playwright and author R. Eric Thomas, centers on a South Philly vacant lot that turns out to be more than meets the eye. Enter Pashmina Paredes (Kimie Muroya), a neighborhood resident collec...

Do you suck at trivia? Feel like you never get any questions right? Always down on yourself for being on a losing team? Then you’d fit right in at Gilligan Gigs Again , a trivia cabaret on radical self-acceptance. With former rock tambourinist Gilligan Gideon as your host, you can rest assured you won’t be the dumbest person in the room. Join us at the Victoria Freehouse in Old City, and you’ll le...

Begin your journey in an 8,000 square foot abandoned laboratory building, at 2nd and Spring Garden streets, where expert researchers are trying to understand what the mysterious Dr. Livingston was working on and determine if there is anything to salvage before the building is demolished. You will quickly find clues from nonsensical scribblings that Dr. Livingston was not only a considerable genius...

OLD CITY JEWISH ARTS CENTER Presents:  A Golem Sleeps and Wakes in the Mourning  WHERE: Old City Jewish Arts Center, 119 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA  WHEN: Opening is First Friday, June 4th, 2021 from 5:00pm - 9:00pm. Gallery open Thursdays 4pm - 8pm, Fridays 11am - 5pm, Saturdays 11am - 8pm, and Sundays 11:00am - 5:00pm and by appointment through July 2nd.  Live gallery pe...

Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner – talking shit, passing the time, and hoping that maybe today will be different. As they dream of their promised land, a stranger wanders into their space with his own agenda and derails their plans. Award-winning playwright Antoinette Nwandu purposely crafts language that many deem “profane” into poetic and humorous riffs, exposing the enduring human spi...

Theatre Philadelphia presents Philly Theatre Week: a celebration of artists, organizations, and audiences that have made Greater Philadelphia one of the most vibrant theatre regions in the nation. Audiences will have an opportunity to try unique events from our theatre community through a series of virtual and non-traditional productions, readings, and much more! This year, shows include 75 unique...

ABOUT ZOO MOTEL How many secrets can one room hold? Step into this virtual odyssey that combines interactive live theater, gripping storytelling, cinematic illusions, and magic all in one creative hour of surprises. Theatre Exile invites you to check into ZOO MOTEL, devised by director, designer, and performer Thaddeus Phillips in 2020 as a quarantined experiment that offers a window into what’s p...

Tired of figuring out what to cook for dinner? Bored with everything Netflix has to offer? Then Francesca Chilcote and Connor Hogan have just the show for you. In Dinner! Franny and Connor Write a Cookbook , two food-obsessed friends help you concoct a meal from the ingredients deep in your pantry while serving up a generous portion of laughs. And, as it is performed over Zoom, you don't even need...

ABOUT BRIYANA D. CLAREL Briyana D. Clarel – is a Black queer theatre artist, writer, and educator passionate about musical theatre , mangoes, and memoirs. Briyana is the host of A Very Virgo Virtual Show and the founder of The Starfruit Project, a platform supporting radical healing and brilliant growth through creativity. Briyana’s poetry and prose are published in TAYO Literary Magazine, cavity,...

ONE-MAN NUTCRACKER WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY CHRIS DAVIS DIRECTED BY MARY TUOMANEN SOUND DESIGN BY ADRIANO SHAPLIN The Nutcracker is back! Performed live at Plays & Players Theatre and streamed to your living room! Bring a little bit of holiday cheer to you and your family this December with a re-telling of the classic Nutcracker story, performed by only one man! What's Christmas without the...

ABOUT D-PAD D-Pad, which makes its world premiere at Theatre Exile,  explores the world of independent gaming through the lens of wunderkind developer Alex as she creates something beyond entertainment. Written with humor, thoughtfulness, and humanity, D-Pad follows Alex as she finds herself in a nightmare of production delays, self-doubt, and a rabid fan base. Interactions with real and virt...

About The Artists Schulman and Behrend have been collaborating on bold new theater works since 2017, responding to and reflecting on questions of faith, loss, and the pep-zing-zap of life in between. For Tickets and Information: https://fringearts.com/event/welcome-to-the-shiva-house/

ABOUT JAMES JACKSON Independent theatre producer: Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, James Jackson is a freelance artist of theatre direction, design, and production; as well as still & motion picture production. http://raveneyes.com ABOUT LIGHT THIEF PRODUCTIONS Light Thief LLC is a production company serving the technical, creative, and equipment needs of business clients in the theatrical...

ABOUT Brie Knight Brie is an emerging Playwright based in Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphia Playwright’s Lab, The Foundry. Brie earned her M.A in Theater from Villanova University, where she also served as a Graduate Assistant in the Theater Department. Her play PANCAKE QUEEN received the 2015 Sue Winge Playwriting Award from Villanova University and will be featured in PlayPenn’s 2017...

ABOUT ARGENT COMBAT Argent Combat is a Philadelphia-based organization of students, performers, choreographers, and instructors of Theatrical Violence and Stage Combat. We are dedicated to promoting safety and fostering the excellence and proficiency of action-oriented entertainment. Mission Statement Our objectives are 1.) to uphold these values, 2.) to encourage safe techniques for performers an...

When corona began to hit, Eleanor Safer and Paige Zubel didn’t want to stop making art. Turns out, a lot of people didn’t want to stop making art. So we created a five day short play festival on Facebook Live. And we were shocked by the response! People were so excited to see it and we received lots of emails from folks asking to be a part of it.  Now, partnered with director, Shamus Hunter M...