Reviews
765 results
Page 15
![White, a Black woman with long, dark hair, grips the microphone and sings passionately.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Macbeth-in-Stride_BSR_11_6_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.4094&fp-y=0.3309&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=1c7ec856fbef116a1c22126922a4344f)
Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Whitney White’s Macbeth in Stride
A fun but flawed feminist take on the Scottish play
Macbeth in Stride, a new adaptation of the Shakespeare classic now onstage at Philadelphia Theatre Company, rocks but doesn’t dig its daggers deep enough. C.M. Crockford reviews.
![C.M. Crockford](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/C.-M.-Crockford.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5207&fp-y=0.4992&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=60427926337967249cf0884cf885ce00)
Reviews
3 minute read
![Howard and Kuerzi, in white collared shirts, sit next to each other smiling on a low wooden platform.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Camp-Siegfried_BSR_11_6_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.3999&fp-y=0.295&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=e7de88b048b799e4a5999c88e1727210)
Theatre Exile presents Bess Wohl’s Camp Siegfried
Tomorrow belongs to them
Then and now, fascism feels like an easy fix for any psychic fissure. With Camp Seigfried, Theatre Exile takes us to a Nazi summer camp in 1938 New York. Wendy Rosenfield reviews.
![Wendy Rosenfield](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/MyHeadshot_BSReditorsletter_061116.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=31ecfe7391ac2d42388c5f639b3f4315)
Reviews
3 minute read
![Bedford, a white woman with brown hair wearing a green blazer, poses smiling next to a podium and US flag.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/What-the-Constitution-means-to-me_BSR_11_6_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5807&fp-y=0.3521&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=90a92f050175d1e4c56f689336aaac61)
Arden Theatre Company presents Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me
Breathing in the grip of the framers
Arden Theatre Company presents Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, a play that is as alternately illuminating and frustrating as our founding document. Kiran Pandey reviews.
![Kiran Pandey](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/Kiran-Pandey-headshot.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5439&fp-y=0.4207&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=2766b4508668531400ced94deb6c3b69)
Reviews
4 minute read
![Ali & Zarif in brown Afghan clothes & Ayer in jeans and white tee face off tensely in a small living room with a red couch](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Selling-Kabul_BSR_11_6_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.7333&fp-y=0.2125&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=e43fe33fd08885aebacfb9646c365c73)
InterAct Theatre Company presents Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul
The price of freedom
Selling Kabul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist at InterAct Theatre Company, wrestles with the human cost of occupation and war. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
Sign up for our newsletter
All of the week's new articles, all in one place. Sign up for the free weekly BSR newsletters, and don't miss a conversation.
![Valli sings triumphantly as Elphaba, with green skin, black robes, and a broomstick, in dramatic shafts of light.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Wicked_BSR_11_6_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5615&fp-y=0.371&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=f929c8ae7a7c16d1627ec086678dc963)
Kimmel Cultural Campus and Shubert Organization present the national tour of Wicked
Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
The national tour of Wicked returns to Philadelphia for the first time in six years. How’s it holding up? Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
![Green patterned rugs line one wall of the wood-floored gallery, with wooden tables with glowing blue displays built into them](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Heterodoxy_BSR_10_31_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.4971&fp-y=0.4362&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=173e88e977c04460cde624c5e53298c0)
Fabric Workshop and Museum presents Jessica Campbell: Heterodoxy
A safe space for uppity women
From 1912-1940, a little-known feminist debate society flourished in New York. Now, FWM artist-in-residence Jessica Campbell revives and reimagines their meetings in Heterodoxy, a new multi-media installation. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read
![Woman in green with lavish feather accessories leans intimately on the shoulder of another in gray & black, holding a book](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Laurencin_BSR_10_31_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.4468&fp-y=0.3147&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=13942286fa6438abef0382e44a01fcd1)
The Barnes Foundation presents Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris
Queer context for the early 20th century
With radically sweet images of women and hardly a man in sight, painter Marie Laurencin constructed a world of female friendship, camaraderie, and low-key eroticism, as explored in a new exhibition at the Barnes. K.A. McFadden reviews.
![K.A. McFadden](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/K.A.-McFadden.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5024&fp-y=0.5733&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=8bcd4d2a4cc11a2374a09f34d24d416c)
Reviews
4 minute read
![Mannequin wears the silky white short-sleeve gown, with giant complex rosettes & luxurious pleated layers on the skirt.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Ann-Lowe_BSR_10_30_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=ac77bed43e49a5cc2433e690fbd82455)
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library presents Ann Lowe: American Couturier
Dior and Chanel’s American peer
Ann Lowe, a Black American designer, should have been as famous as the 20th-century French couturiers who are household names today. A new exhibition at Winterthur charts her remarkable sartorial journey. Gail Obenreder reviews.
![Gail Obenreder](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/headshots/GailObenreder_BSRauthors_100116.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=32&q=80&w=32&s=6b06d1c43a7bead0d21ebb25d53017b0)
Reviews
7 minute read
![McCall, in tan tank & shoes; Wallace, in long black priest’s robe; & Lallie, in bright patterned tribal garment, sit on boxes](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Les-Blancs_BSR_10_30_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.1805&fp-y=0.2688&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=a5a592e0a9233424ab3845361c7a3ec4)
EgoPo Classic Theater and Abrahamse and Meyer Productions present Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs
Still ahead of her time
EgoPo Classic Theater opens a season of international perspectives with Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs, co-produced by South Africa’s Abrahamse and Meyer Productions. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
![Rorem, an elderly white man in a blue button-down, reclines contemplatively in a chair, cane in one hand.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Lyric-Fest_Rorem_BSR_10_24_23.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5827&fp-y=0.0396&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=09c124dbc79db916bbdaa24779d11a14)
Lyric Fest presents Ned Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen
Cycle of life
Lyric Fest celebrated the centennial of composer Ned Rorem with a rare complete performance of Evidence of Things Not Seen. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read