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The BSR editor’s picks for the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Need help navigating the fest? BSR is here!
If you want to get your butt to some art during this year’s Fringe but don’t know where to start, we’re here for you. Editor-in-chief Alaina Johns shares some of her top picks for 2025.
Editorials
7 minute read
A radical act: 2025 Philly Fringe artists tackle illness and disability
Healthcare is a human right for artists, too
A worsened healthcare crisis is about to hit Philadelphia. Artists are disproportionately affected, and they’re speaking up on behalf of all of us in this year’s Fringe. Alaina Johns helps you find their shows.
Editorials
5 minute read
Philly theater artists launch the Jewish Theatrical Resource Guide
Offering free guidance worldwide for anyone producing Jewish theater
Three Philly arts leaders were on the team that developed a new resource guide for theaters tackling Jewish stories. They sit down with Jill Ivey to discuss how it all happened and what the guide offers theater-makers worldwide.
Features
6 minute read
A Germantown performing arts troupe says “Yes! And…” to kids’ creativity
Where the next generation takes the stage now
At Yes! And… Collaborative Arts, a Germantown-based performing arts group, staffers don’t
just talk about the next generation of art-makers. They invite kids’ creativity right now by mounting their all-original shows. Maggie Dougherty visits.
just talk about the next generation of art-makers. They invite kids’ creativity right now by mounting their all-original shows. Maggie Dougherty visits.
Features
4 minute read
Your August guide to Philadelphia-area theater
No dog days for the stage
BSR may be going on our August hiatus, but theater in our region doesn’t take a vacation. Cameron Kelsall previews some of August’s local productions, from hyperlocal al fresco performances to classic Shakespearean tragedies.
Previews
3 minute read
PSF presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in rep
Thrilling metatheatrics
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival stages Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in repertory productions, each play illuminating the other. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read
Shakespeare in Clark Park presents Jay Eddy’s A Bottom’s Dream
Shakespeare, but make it gay(er)
Shakespeare in Clark Park celebrates its 20th year with an original queer musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that feels both nostalgic and contemporary. It runs through Sunday, July 27. Josh Herren reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
Delaware Shakespeare presents Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras, adapted by Liz Filios and Tanaquil Márquez
“No one belongs until everyone belongs”
A new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, onstage at Wilmington’s historic Rockwood Park, asks what would happen if Sebastian and Viola washed up in a modern-day country sans documentation. An Nichols reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read
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Indecorous Theatre presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Schuylkill Center
Into the forest
Philly’s Indecorous Theatre takes audiences into the woods for an interactive production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that celebrates the show’s gender-bending, class-swapping, fairy-meddling magic. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
People’s Light presents Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors
Comedy, the macabre, and capitalism
A new production of Little Shop of Horrors, closing out People’s Light’s 50th anniversary season, gives fearsome new teeth to the adage that there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. Mina Reinckens reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read