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![Kyle, a Black man, lies against large rocks in a river, looking up to the sunny sky while wearing sunglasses and swim trunks](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Kyle_Bristol_Falls_BSR_9_7_21.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.3245&fp-y=0.4028&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=d5944213467805be18c919eeb1f092c1)
After years of writing from trauma, I’m choosing joy
Why do you want to amplify my voice?
After two long summers and many challenging writing sessions in between, Kyle V. Hiller contemplates how trauma-inspired work is no longer his cup of tea.
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![A photo from between two high bookshelves in The Strand, facing more bookshelves, and a rolling cart full of books.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/The-Strand_BSR_8_31_21.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=dd3d0c7f754aa6ee49a850ee1a493ed0)
After a summer of solo adventures, I learned how good it can be to go it alone
Why I’m not waiting for you
In a world that expects everyone to travel in pairs, going out alone is a refreshing and important way to reframe your relationship to yourself—and others. Alaina Johns wanders.
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![The Walnut Street Theatre today. It has a gray exterior with columns and large windows. American flags fly on poles in front](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Walnut-Street-Theatre_BSR_7_13_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=998863833df73ec21382208bfe8287db)
As artists continue to rally against the Walnut, it’s time to ask: who is “America’s Oldest Theatre”?
Staging history
Most coverage of protests against the Walnut Street Theatre ignores a key fact: the building may be historic, but the theater company there started in the 1980s. Alaina Johns thinks that matters.
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![Protesters at the Walnut Street Theatre on June 18 called for Bernard Havard’s departure. (Photo by Alaina Johns.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/BernOut_BSR_6_22_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=a7db47f2dbb3d679fb3115c661d015bd)
What I learned about leadership as a Walnut Street Theatre apprentice
Time warp on Walnut Street
Alaina Johns is one of many Philadelphia professionals who got their start in the Walnut Street Theatre’s apprenticeship program, and the experience still influences her today.
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![One year later, on a different stoop, and unsure if things have changed. (Photo by Holly Yokley.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Kyle_June_2021_BSR_6_15_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=fe33e09e9edfa14497e91e9051f043f7)
As normality attempts to return, mask-wearing arguments often miss the truth
Masking our problems
The past year has brought us a lifetime’s worth of pandemic anxiety and movements for justice, but it all seems to have boiled down to worries about masks. Kyle V. Hiller says something deeper is in play.
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![The galleries at PAFA were one of my first post-vaccination outings. (Photo by Alaina Johns.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Alaina_Johns_at_PAFA_BSR_5_25_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=f65f2535070142d2aea1306a7d319218)
BSR is resuming in-person and indoor coverage: what you need to know
The arts go back inside
Last summer, BSR committed to keeping our coverage all-digital or all-outdoors until we saw a significant reduction in Covid-19 risk. Now we’re ready for an update. Alaina Johns explains.
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![2020 was a really hard year—we missed so many brunches! (Image via Wikimedia Commons.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Grandma_Karen_BSR_2_23_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=03cabc1a943169d1fdcbced89c36ab71)
30 years in the future, one white woman honors her actions for social justice
Karen tells America
It’s Stacey Abrams Day 2051, and just like her forbears marched with Dr. King, Karen reminisces about the time she helped America finally change for the better. Kyle V. Hiller imagines.
![Kyle V. Hiller](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/DSC6881.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5863&fp-y=0.3485&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=9c835316a112f4b2f61e4520681fa856)
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![For some people, troubling medical symptoms aren’t a temporary worry. (Photo by Alaina Johns.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Pill_box_BSR_1_26_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=65d5fa4685ee896e83887f3e45decff2)
As we line up for Covid vaccines, can we better understand chronic illness?
An infinite ache
Some folks are worried about a day or two of vaccine side effects. Others handle symptoms like pain and fatigue for their whole lives. Alaina Johns considers how the vaccination line lets us reframe chronic illness.
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![Martin Luther King Jr. speaking against the Vietnam War at the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota in 1967. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/MLK_St_Paul_Campus_U_MN_BSR_1_18_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=53b9ce6ecc86f93bd12971143dadb5b1)
For MLK Day 2021, can we fight our history of miseducation in America?
The truth about unity
This MLK Day, Kyle V. Hiller considers what “unity” actually means, and the education that will get us there.
![Kyle V. Hiller](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/DSC6881.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5863&fp-y=0.3485&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=9c835316a112f4b2f61e4520681fa856)
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![What does the US Capitol stand for? (Photo by Andrew Van Huss, via Wikimedia Commons.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/US_Capitol_BSR_1_12_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=3e46653a657be0b44402e68881811664)
After the riot at the Capitol, we’re affirming what the BSR team stands for
No to white supremacy
The January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol traumatized many Americans, whether we were shocked by it, or we were seeing what we already knew to be true. Editor Alaina Johns affirms what our executive team stands for in this moment and beyond.
![Alaina Johns](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/Alaina-headshot-2022.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.4872&fp-y=0.3766&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=430f8a8c533aed18761b535514805e8b)
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