After his success in the 2025 Fringe as Karen Tenderness, playwright Dan Kitrosser is back with the world premiere of Marsha Blovotnick and the Marvelous Magical Chicken Soup, onstage at The…
Philly journalist Dan McQuade died this week from neuroendocrine cancer. He has been honored by publications and sports teams alike. Jill Ivey shares reflections on their friendship, and Dan…
Philadelphia Artists' Collective mounts a new production of Susan Glaspell's 105-year-old play, Inheritors, at the Community College of Philadelphia. It feels unnervingly relevant to today's…
The Arden's latest production for children is beautifully designed and respectfully adapted, if occasionally hard to follow. Jill Ivey reviews.
Theatre Exile kicks off its 29th season with a darkly funny single-set thriller about what happens when you allow your work to define you, and then take over your life. Jill Ivey reviews.
Humble Materials continues its annual string of feminist retellings of canonical works with CASS, loosely based on Cassandra's story in Euripides' The Trojan Women. Jill Ivey reviews.
Without a Cue's interactive And Then They Were Dead is more fun than it is good"which is, itself, a good thing. Jill Ivey reviews.
Part Shakespeare, part Stoppard, part Beckett, and part Dumb and Dumber, Philly Fringe offering Dogberry and Verges are Scared is one of the festival's must-see shows. Jill Ivey reviews.
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 …
As a kid, Jill Ivey loved donning American flag fashion for the Fourth of July. Today, with her own child born between two Trump administrations, she marks the holiday in a different way, as…
For Damon Bonetti's last outing as PAC's producing artistic director, the company presents CATO (Remixed), based on a play that helped inspire the American Revolution, in the building that h…
In this year's Philly Fringe, Humble Materials adapts the classic war novel All Quiet on the Western Front to focus on the ones who are most often left behind: women. Jill Ivey reviews.
The Arden presents The BFG, an adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic, in a production fit for both kids and the young at heart. Jill Ivey reviews.
Based on the lived experience of playwright Rosa Hesmondhalgh's cancer diagnosis, Inis Nua's Madame Ovary is equal parts funny and tragic. Jill Ivey reviews.
It's not just important that we continue to care about the Holocaust. It's imperative. That's why the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation presents the Hate Ends Now Cattle Car Exhi…
The Lantern Theater takes Richard Wilbur's definitive 1963 translation of Molière's 1664 play, Tartuffe, sets it in the Belle Époque, and sets a high bar for the 2023"2024 theater seaso…
Humble Materials takes on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic feminist short story with theater, dance, and impressive makeup in this year's Fringe. Jill Ivey reviews.
inFLUX Theatre Collective's Philly Fringe show Bite the Dust focuses on the impermanence of life, and the permanence of art. Jill Ivey reviews.
Disney's first large-scale musical returns to Philadelphia with big puppets and bigger talents worthy of the spectacle. Jill Ivey reviews.
Applied Mechanics produces an interactive, choose-your-own adventure work of theater in its latest Other Orbits installment, inviting audiences to a convention that is both surreal and oddly…
Flooding from 2021's Hurricane Ida destroyed most of the archive from Spiral Q's 27-year history of community art and advocacy, but enough remains for an urgent and engaging exhibition at Ne…
There's a surprise in the staging of Philadelphia Theatre Company's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, which takes place just a few blocks from the venue that inspired it. Jill Ivey revi…
Three years into the coronavirus pandemic, Curio Theatre Company's production of The Complete Deaths shows us that sometimes death can be a laughing matter. Jill Ivey reviews.
Quintessence Theatre Group combines creative casting, minimalistic design, and a whole lot of masks for its ambitious production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Jill Ivey reviews.
It's fitting that the new national tour of 1776 (without any cis men in the cast) is getting started here, in the city where it happened. Jill Ivey reviews.