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The BSR Podcast, season 7, episode 10: Allens Lane Art Center presents In Their Silence

Sit down with 2023 Philly Fringe artists TS Hawkins, Sabriaya Shipley, and Josh Hitchens

We begin our coverage of the 2023 Philadelphia Fringe Festival with TS Hawkins, Sabriaya Shipley, and Josh Hitchens in conversation with Darnelle Radford about In Their Silence, coming to Allens Lane Arts Center.

Darnelle Radford

Sep 05, 2023 Podcast 1 minute read

The show title above a performer dressed as a bald, graying man, looking bemused and holding a human skull.

Philly Fringe 2023: inFLUX Theatre Collective presents Bite the Dust

Ashes to ashes

inFLUX Theatre Collective’s Philly Fringe show Bite the Dust focuses on the impermanence of life, and the permanence of art. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Sep 05, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Parke in character, mouth open and tongue sticking out with a pill hanging at the tip, a blue curtain as a backdrop

Philly Fringe 2023: the BSR editor’s picks

Tips for this year’s fest (it’s a big one)

Editor-in-chief Alaina Johns has her picks for this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival, including offerings from Cannonball, Free Fringe, and Digital Fringe.

Alaina Johns

Aug 29, 2023 Previews 6 minute read

Knittel, wearing neon green zebra leggings, tussles with laughing audience members while falling on her back during a show.

Dive into the 2023 Philly Fringe Festival with avant-garde necromancer Sarah Knittel

Philly Fringe 2023: How did we get here?

Sarah Knittel—not a Fringe queen, but certainly a mage or wicked-cool duke—gets us ready for the 2023 fest by sharing her Fringe journey as a self-producing artist.

Sarah Knittel

Aug 24, 2023 Essays 8 minute read

Chang, an Asian woman in a short gray tunic, moves gracefully with ensemble members behind her, some dancing and some sitting

“A responsibility to open the door”: how do we embrace disability on an institutional level?

What else can theater be?

Last month, writer Wendy Univer explored a cutting-edge cadre of artists whose work centers on inclusion from the ground up. Now, she speaks with institutional leaders about integrating and prioritizing disability inclusion.

Wendy Univer

Aug 22, 2023 Features 8 minute read

Dlamini, in dramatic white red yellow & blue face paint & stylized baboon costume sings in front of a gazelle puppet ensemble

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Schubert Organization present Disney’s The Lion King

The circle of life is going strong onstage

Disney’s first large-scale musical returns to Philadelphia with big puppets and bigger talents worthy of the spectacle. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Aug 21, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

The cast poses together, wearing ordinary clothes, against a beige background, some serious, some sad, some worried.

Theatre in the X presents Charles Fuller’s Zooman and the Sign

Timely, audacious Philly theater

Theatre in the X celebrates its 10th anniversary with Zooman and the Sign, a tremendous rumination on community violence in Philadelphia that is all too resonant today. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Aug 18, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

A bedroom scene: Rodriquez, in a shirt and jeans, ecstatically lifts Baldwin, wearing a yellow dress. They’re both barefoot.

Bucks County Playhouse presents The Bridges of Madison County

The beginning of things

Bucks County Playhouse presents a star-studded Bridges of Madison County that delivers all the thrill of awakening love. Josh Herren reviews.

Josh Herren

Aug 14, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Domingo, drinking a beer in a leather jacket, looks away while De Silva regards him from his seat at the kitchen table

People’s Light presents Sam Shepard’s True West

East meets West

A highly conceptualized production of True West at People’s Light offers striking visuals but scant drama. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Aug 14, 2023 Reviews 4 minute read

A Black woman, a white man, and an Asian person lie blissfully on the grass with their heads together and hands joined.

Shakespeare in Clark Park presents Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical

A summer stunner

Politically charged yet emotionally joyous, a 1971 musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona knocks it out of Clark Park. Cameron Kelsall reviews.