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The BSR Podcast kicks off Season 10 talking with Rayne and Chris Davis

Darnelle Radford takes you behind the scenes with two popular artists of the 2025 Philly Fringe.

Darnelle Radford sits down with Rayne (also known as Angela Bey) to talk about her new Afrocentric riff on Antony and Cleopatra, and Chris Davis pulls back the curtain on his updated solo show, The Presented.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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Show logo: Krista Apple, a white actor with short hair, floats in a green sea, wearing a yellow slicker and red lipstick.

Go behind the scenes with Philly actor Ross Beschler of the Wilma's HotHouse Company

Exploring the Wilma's A Summer Day on the BSR Podcast

Listen in as podcast host Darnelle Radford gets an inside look at the Wilma's acclaimed acting company and their season-closing show, A Summer Day.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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In prep school uniforms, the actors pose with arms outspread as if screaming at a sports game.

Go behind the scenes of June theater on the BSR Podcast with Square Go, Small Ball, and Glitter in the Glass

Artists of Inis Nua, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Theatre Exile sit down with Darnelle

Dive deep into three shows closing out the 2024-25 theater scene. Darnelle sits down with the artists behind Inis Nua's Square Go, PTC's Small Ball, and Theatre Exile's Glitter in the Glass.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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The BSR Podcast: Talking the 2025 PVLA Arts Affair

You're invited as Philly's "cool lawyers" party with artists and supporters on May 15

Darnelle Radford sits down with leaders of PVLA to talk about this year's Arts Affair (coming up on May 15 at REC Philly) and the legal and political concerns local artists are tackling with the help of volunteer lawyers.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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The BSR Podcast: Talking Philly Theatre Week 2025 with Theatre Philadelphia's CJ Higgins

Go behind the scenes of Philly's spring theater fest (it's pay-what-you-can!)

BSR Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with Theatre Philadelphia's CJ Higgins to talk all things Philly Theatre Week 2025 (the eighth annual), including shows, workshops, and other industry events.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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Show logo: A hooded Black man holding a water-splashed basketball superimposed on colorful West African-style patterns.

Dive into Philly's winter theater scene with interviews featuring the Wilma's Suli Holum and BRT's Phyllis Johnson

Go behind-the-scenes on The Half-God of Rainfall and Fires in the Mirror

On these podcast episodes, Darnelle takes you inside two exciting regional productions: the Wilma's Half-God of Rainfall, by Inua Ellams, and BRT's Fires in the Mirror, by Anna Deavere Smith.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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The BSR Podcast, season 9, episode 10: EgoPo reimagines Mae West's The Drag

Kicking off a season of "Queer Revolutions"

Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with director Rebecca Wright, playwright AZ Espinoza, and performer/composer Pax Ressler to hear all about this timely revival of a queer story from the Roaring 20s.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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The show flyer. Schoonover, in a silver sequined dress, holds a TV remote and a bottle of eggnog, yelling joyfully

The BSR Podcast, season 9, episode 7: the world premiere of The Complete Works of Christmas (Abridged)

Shakespeare in Clark Park tackles Christmas

Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with Shakespeare in Clark Park artistic director Shamus to hear all about a new Christmas-themed show at the Drake starring Amanda Schoonover.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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The BSR Podcast, season 9, episode 6: The Wilma's Comeuppance with actor Taysha Marie Canales

Go behind the scenes with the Wilma's Hothouse acting company

Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with actor Taysha Marie Canales for a backstage look at the Wilma and Woolly Mammoth co-production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's The Comeuppance, now extended through Saturday, December 14, 2024.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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Grant, a Black man with long locs, lounges on a bench with Jimeniz, a worried-looking Latino man wearing a red shirt.

The BSR Podcast, season 9, episode 5: Directors Seth Rozin and J Paul Nicholas on InterAct's Moreno

Podcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with Seth Rozin and J Paul Nicholas, co-directors of the American premiere of Pravin Wilkins's Moreno.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

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