Stand-up for everybody with Next in Line Comedy by Kiran Pandey

Manny Brown talks comedy and community with the collective Next in Line Comedy, now with a new venue at The Coop. Kiran Pandey profiles.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 8:44am on March 20, 2024[SHARE]

Montgomery Theater presents R. Eric Thomas's Mrs. Harrison by Kiran Pandey

Montgomery Theater presents R. Eric Thomas's Mrs. Harrison, a play that contends with timely themes of storytelling and appropriation but falters for the messiness of its construction. Kiran…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 3:28pm on February 6, 2024[SHARE]

Walnut Street Theatre presents Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Kiran Pandey

The Walnut Street Theatre revives Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to explosive effect, conjuring the delicate illusions of Albee's most famous play. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:22pm on January 22, 2024[SHARE]

Homer's The Iliad, translated by Emily Wilson by Kiran Pandey

Philadelphia-based translator and Penn professor Emily Wilson follows her acclaimed English translation of The Odyssey with a similarly lucid and lean new Iliad. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 1:07pm on January 2, 2024[SHARE]

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Shubert Organization present the national tour of Company by Kiran Pandey

Sondheim still abounds, despite his recent passing, and the new tour of Company takes a gender swap to the 1970 story, with uneven results that nevertheless keep the joy of the show alive. K…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 4:55pm on December 5, 2023[SHARE]

Arden Theatre Company presents Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me by Kiran Pandey

Arden Theatre Company presents Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me, a play that is as alternately illuminating and frustrating as our founding document. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 1:40pm on November 6, 2023[SHARE]

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit by Kiran Pandey

Quintessence Theatre Group conjures a classic vision of hell with Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, in a new translation by Alex Burns. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:26pm on October 16, 2023[SHARE]

People's Light presents Steve H. Broadnax III's Bonez by Kiran Pandey

People's Light brings social horror to the stage with the world premiere of Steve H. Broadnax III's Bonez, which boasts eerie technical wizardry but is stymied by a script that too often get…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:39pm on October 4, 2023[SHARE]

Hedgerow Theatre Company presents Bruce Graham's The Philly Fan by Kiran Pandey

The Philly Fan, in an updated version at Hedgerow Theatre starring playwright Bruce Graham, surveys 50 years of Philadelphia sports through the thoughtful perspective of one man in a bar. Ki…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:30pm on October 3, 2023[SHARE]

Philly Fringe 2023: Spanking Macbeth and Macbeth in a Bar by Kiran Pandey

The 2023 Philly Fringe takes on Macbeth in two different shows: Spanking Macbeth, an original play, and Macbeth in a Bar, a restaging at Lilly's Ferry. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 5:12pm on September 19, 2023[SHARE]

Philly Fringe 2023: Denise Stephenson presents Finding Melania by Kiran Pandey

Denise Stephenson invokes the specter of our former First Lady in Finding Melania, a one-woman show at the Philly Fringe that offers a surreal portrait of complicity and alienation. Kiran Pa…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 1:35pm on September 13, 2023[SHARE]

Philly Fringe 2023: Kingfisher Theatre presents Odysseus by Kiran Pandey

Bill George brings Odysseus to the Philly Fringe, a one-man retelling of The Odyssey that captivates in returning the poem to its rhetorical origins. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 4:31pm on September 7, 2023[SHARE]

Theatre in the X presents Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign by Kiran Pandey

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.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 8:21pm on August 18, 2023[SHARE]

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Shakespeare's The Tempest by Kiran Pandey

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival closes its 2023 season with bold comedic swings and infrequent wonder in an ultimately uneven Tempest. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:18pm on July 18, 2023[SHARE]

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Henry IV, Part 2 by Kiran Pandey

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival opens its 2023 season with Henry IV, Part 2, a joyous restaging that succeeds in ragtag style, despite a few dramatic missteps. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:48pm on June 5, 2023[SHARE]

Wilma Theater presents Nathan Alan Davis's Eternal Life Part 1 by Kiran Pandey

Eternal Life Part 1, in its world premiere at the Wilma, offers a vision of the near future that is as strange and wondrous as it is relatable. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 1:39pm on April 18, 2023[SHARE]

Hedgerow Theatre Company presents Ngozi Anyanwu's Good Grief by Kiran Pandey

Good Grief, in its regional premiere at Hedgerow Theatre Company, offers a sometimes touching, mostly frustrating portrayal of grief. Kiran Pandey reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 1:16pm on February 14, 2023[SHARE]

1812 Productions and Jennifer Childs present Broads by Kiran Pandey

1812 Productions presents Broads, a hit cabaret that celebrates the bawdiest, boldest, and funniest ladies of the 1920s through the 1960s. Kiran Pandey previews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 4:26pm on January 25, 2023[SHARE]

The Book of I.P., by Chris Courtney Martin by Kiran Pandey

In The Book of I.P., a poetry-and-essay chapbook collection, Philly native Chris Courtney Martin breaks from the strictures of Hollywood to craft a blazing manifesto of art on its own terms.…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:15pm on December 6, 2022[SHARE]