Broad Street Review, The Podcast

On today’s podcast, we interview Thomas Choinacky to talk about his new work,  A User’s Manual . Choinacky is the founder, producer, and co-curator of SoLow Fest, an 11-day festival of solo experimental performance in Philadelphia. He is also a company member of Applied Mechanics, a devised, collaborative theater ensemble. At the time of the interview, Choinacky was on location at Washington...

InterAct Theatre Company's world premiere of Mary Tuomanen's  MARCUS/EMMA  brings together Jewish immigrant and anarchist Emma Goldman and Jamaican immigrant and pan-African movement leader Marcus Garvey. Both were turn-of-the-20th-century activists deported from the United States, and in Tuomanen's drama, they meet in a sort of purgatory for a no-holds-barred, sex-fueled, bloody-minded...

On today's podcast, we met with Stephanie Feldman, Philadelphia writer and coordinator of the Philadelphia chapter of Writers Resist. This movement is designed to engage a community of authors, poets, filmmakers and the like to use their talents and shine a light on the fundamentals of democracy. Writers Resist will host a rally this weekend at the National Museum of American Jewish History with a...

For today’s podcast, I made my way to South Philly to hang out with 11th Hour Theatre Company. We talked about the upcoming production of  LIZZIE , with music by Steven Cheslik-Demeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt, lyrics by Steven Cheslik-Demeyer and Tim Maner, and book by Tim Maner. The show's director, Kate Galvin, and its Lizzie, Alex Keiper, take us back to 11th Hour's Next Steps Concert Seri...

On this podcast, we interview White Pines Productions artistic director Benjamin Lloyd. Lloyd, a B.A. and M.F.A. Yale drama grad, has been a fixture as a Philadelphia actor for decades. He founded White Pines in 2009. The company operated out of the Elkins Park Gilded Age mansion Elkins Estate until 2012. Since then, the company has moved to a storefront in Elkins Park's bustling business district...

On this podcast, we are joined by  Two Walkens : Susanne Collins and Kevin Meehan. We talk about the origins of the devised theater performance duo's mashup, explore some iconic standouts from Christopher Walken's expansive body of work, and we even get a sample of the show.  Two Walkens , a world premiere, takes a few of Walken’s best-known big- and small-screen appearances, and combine...

On this podcast, I chat with Steve Pacek, featured in Theatre Horizon’s production of William Finn and James Lapine's musical  A New Brain . It’s been four years since Pacek won the 2012 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theater Artist and the same amount of time has passed since he last chatted with us. Let’s play catch up!  About  A New Brain Tony Award-winners Finn...

On today’s podcast, we catch up with Theatre Exile producing artistic director Deborah Block to talk about Theatre Exile’s 20th anniversary season. We start off with congratulations on Exile's 13 Barrymore Award nominations (which Monday night became five wins for their production of Ayad Akhtar's  The Invisible Hand: Production of a Play, Direction of a Play (Matt Pfeiffer), Leading Actor in...

On this episode of the  Broad Street Review /REP Radio podcast, we discuss 1812 Productions' annual political satire  This Is the Week That Is  ( TIWTI ). Meet Sean Close and new cast member Nia-Samara Benjamin, both of whom appear in  TIWTI 's "Election Special." Can you guess what we talked about?  Why should  Saturday Night Live  have all the fun this election...

On this week's podcast, Darnelle Radford interviews Casabuena Cultural Productions founder Mariangela Saavedra about the Mt. Airy company's inaugural entry into the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.  The Church Bells All Were Broken , a world premiere by Philadelphia playwright Dave Ebersole, is a fictitious story inspired by the real Westboro Baptist Church and its members. It challenges the aud...

On today’s podcast, we meet Erlina Ortiz. She is a graduate of Temple University and the Resident Playwright of Power Street Theatre Company. We come to know her because she has been selected as one of the 2016 Amtrak Artist Residency recipients. She will travel the country by train and let the beauty of our nation inspire her next piece. Stay Tuned! About Erlina Ortiz Erlina Ortiz is a self-defin...

On today’s podcast, we are joined by Shoshanna Ruth Green and Cubby Altobelli of burlesque troupe The Seven Deadly Seas for a little scripted "yes, and-ing." We talk about their upcoming production,  The Greater of Two Evils , on the barquentine Gazela, which is once more ready to board after a two-year repair hiatus.  The show, a full-length burlesque play, takes a look at present-day p...

In our first podcast with  Rep Radio , host Darnelle Radford interviews Tina Brock, artistic director of Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (IRC), about  Into the Absurd , the company's recent staged reading of Samuel Beckett's and Harold Pinter's radio plays. IRC is committed to producing classic absurdist theater, as reflected in their company motto: "We bring good nothingness to life...