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In 60s or 90s fashion, the cast mugs happily in a line, reaching out to each other. Lieberman holds a purple plant at center.

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.
Mina Reinckens

Mina Reinckens

Reviews 3 minute read
In a dotted dress, Johnson stands with hands on her hips. Wyatt sits on a couch. Fairbanks passes behind carrying a towel.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

Still asking stark questions
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival stages A Raisin in the Sun to powerful effect, even if the production finds itself occasionally out of step. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Kiran Pandey

Kiran Pandey

Reviews 4 minute read
A diverse cast of seven, some seated and some standing and gesticulating wildly, perform on a black stage with music stands

PlayPenn’s 20th anniversary conference takes root in Philly neighborhoods

The 2025 New Play Development Conference goes local
Despite cruel NEA cuts, PlayPenn's 2025 New Play Development Conference opens on Saturday, July 5. Camille Bacon-Smith sits down with conference leaders and resident playwright Lori Felipe-Barkin.
Camille Bacon-Smith

Camille Bacon-Smith

Features 6 minute read
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

Podcast 1 minute read
Muhammad, a young Black Muslim woman in brown hijab and light-blue tunic with brown embroidered leaves, laughs joyfully.

InterAct Theatre Company and Theatre in the X present Antu Yacob’s On My Deen

Spotlighting West Philly’s Muslim community onstage
For the start of its ambitious, community-centered Philly Cycle series, InterAct teams with Theatre in the X for this warm, involving exploration of love and faith for two generations of Muslim women in Philly. Maya Arthur reviews.
Maya Arthur

Maya Arthur

Reviews 5 minute read
At right Orr explains something to Alburo & Wilson, looking outward. At left, actors hold panels with a painting of Franklin

Pig Iron Theatre Company presents Robert Quillen Camp and Dan Rothenberg’s Franklin’s Key

Discovering shared power in Philadelphia
An ambitious new interdisciplinary stage show from Pig Iron imagines a pair of modern Philly teens who uncover a power source hidden since the days of Ben Franklin, and fight the forces of evil who want to control it. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Reviews 4 minute read
O’Hare & Maseda sit facing each other, smiling and affectionately joining hands, while Apple watches wistfully upstage.

The Wilma presents Jon Fosse’s A Summer Day, translated by Sarah Cameron Sunde

A day to remember
Spare and devastating, the Wilma Theater’s A Summer Day gives eloquent expression to the complexity of grief. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 4 minute read
The actors hold a large paper pad with a number 5 on it, Chandler-Berat holding a mic and the others making goofy expressions

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Mickle Maher, Merel van Dijk, and Anthony Barilla's Small Ball

Foul ball
Small Ball, a fairy-tale musical about pint-sized basketball players, still needs a major assist. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
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

Podcast 2 minute read
Check, in a black polo, crosses his arms & faces away from mustached Aurelio, who approaches from behind. They're lit in blue

Quintessence Theatre Group Presents James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, adapted by Benjamin Sprunger and Paul Oakley Stovall

The first-ever stage adaptation of a James Baldwin novel comes to Mt. Airy
With exclusive rights to the first stage adaptation ever approved by the Baldwin estate, Quintessence Theatre Group delivers a steamy, affecting treatise on the politics of queer love and desire with Giovanni’s Room. nat čermák reviews.

nat čermák

Reviews 4 minute read