71 stories by "Josh Herren"
The delightful national tour of the modern Broadway musical hit Shucked brings farm life to our city’s Forrest with its Philly stop. Josh Herren reviews.
A new Romeo and Juliet at the Arden, directed by Amina Robinson, finds its beating heart in the violent adult world's intrusion on a childlike love. Josh Herren reviews.
EgoPo captures the pulse of the neighborhood with Gemini, set in a South Philly backyard in the summer of 1976, with plenty of resonance for our Semiquincentennial. Josh Herren reviews.
The Philadelphia premiere of James Ijames's Good Bones, onstage at the Arden, has unmistakable resonance for Philly in the aftermath of the Sixers stadium debacle. Josh Herren reviews.
Jenn Kidwell brought her latest show, we come to collect, spoken and performed in ASL in partnership with Brandon Kazen-Maddoz, to FringeArts. Josh Herren reviews.
The Arden stages The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's popular magical realist drama about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final night, his legacy, and what we must do to continue it. Josh Herren rev…
For their new partnership, Azuka and Simpatico team with Khalil Munir for 1 Pound 4 Ounces, a "very Black Philly" world premiere that feels like a perfect synthesis of both companies. Josh H…
Curios Theatre Company's Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors is a gleefully unhinged retelling of the Bram Stoker classic, in the spirit of Monty Python and Charles Ludlam. Josh Herren reviews.
Dan Kitrosser's QUEER WINDOW! welcomes Karen, a repressed suburban wife who discovers a window that reveals unexpected desires in this campy, tender, and funny Hitchcock-inspired cabaret. Jo…
A new multimedia Fringe show by John Miller Giltner and Gene Farbe mixes slideshow, singalong, and earnest confessions to explore the messy tenderness of belonging to a family. Josh Herren r…
Reflecting on how to make absurd work in our absurd time, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium brings us home with its Philly Fringe entry, Tina Howe's Painting Churches. Josh Herren reviews.
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, …
The Arden leans into the political urgency and community spirit of Rent's roots with a new production featuring interactive couch seats available only with $20 rush tickets. Josh Herren revi…
The national tour of Some Like It Hot draws from the golden era of musical theater. Its full-throttle charm and commitment to the form, instead of winking at the audience, is a rare feat amo…
Blanka Zizka returns to the Wilma for the regional premiere
of Rajiv Joseph's Archduke, a fast-moving, boldly designed meditation on
an eerily relevant history and the choices we make to eng…
Arden Children's Theatre welcomes youngsters and families to The Hobbit, an ingenious ensemble show that proves we can do great things no matter how small we are"a message we all sorely need…
Fever Dream Repertory presents the world premiere of Bruce Walsh's james at the upstairs Skinner Studio at Plays and Players, about an everyman who wins a makeover at the Super Bowl. Joshua …
MJ the Musical, celebrating Michael Jackson's music in a story about preparations for his Dangerous World Tour in the early 1990s, opts for a polished, estate-approved narrative that leaves …
The first mainstage production in over a decade for Theatre Ariel fronts an historic bill with contemporary perspective. Josh Herren reviews.
1812's popular political satire revue This Is the Week That Is returns to Plays & Players to take on the 2024 election in its 19th edition. But out-of-touch sketches offer mostly limp la…
Quintessence kicks off its 15th anniversary season with a bold adaptation of Cyrano, casting the charismatic yet insecure hero as a defiant poet fighting against mediocrity and bourgeois con…
Writer, director, and actor Jenn Adams takes an ambitious leap by portraying the complex and often problematic playwright August Strindberg in her new show for this year's Fringe. Josh Herre…
The Philly premiere of Anna Ziegler's The Wanderers at the Lantern is a compelling yet uneven exploration of marriage, identity, and religion, featuring two Williamsburg couples decades apar…
This year, two Philly Fringe shows offered two distinct explorations of performance art made in queer community: The Boy Bands Have Won from Hum'n'bards Theater Troupe, Thomas Choinacky's Fo…
Philly's EgoPo Classic Theater builds on a partnership begun in the 1990s with two Indonesian theater companies. They bring Ramayana, a dazzling cross-cultural epic, to the Navy Yard for a w…
