Broad Street Review Podcast - Broad Street Review, Philly's home for arts, culture, and conversation, is an online arts and culture journal covering the greater Philadelphia area.
Broad Street Review Podcast - Broad Street Review, Philly's home for arts, culture, and conversation, is an online arts and culture journal covering the greater Philadelphia area.
Theatre Philadelphia presents Philly Theatre Week: a celebration of artists, organizations, and audiences that have made Greater Philadelphia one of the most vibrant theatre regions in the nation. Audiences will have an opportunity to try unique events from our theatre community through a series of virtual and non-traditional productions, readings, and much more!
This year, shows include 75 unique virtual performances, theatre films, audio plays, outdoor events, and more - all from Philly-based theaters and artists!
Each show is unique! Whether it's all access or limited availability, an outdoor event or livestream, you'll find details on every show's page about how to register, how to access, and more!
Follow www.phillytheatreweek.com for the latest news, shows, and updates.
ABOUT ZOO MOTEL
How many secrets can one room hold?
Step into this virtual odyssey that combines interactive live theater, gripping storytelling, cinematic illusions, and magic all in one creative hour of surprises.
Theatre Exile invites you to check into ZOO MOTEL, devised by director, designer, and performer Thaddeus Phillips in 2020 as a quarantined experiment that offers a window into what’s possible for live performance — a world where audiences from around the globe can share a mind-bending adventure in the comfort of their own home.
Broadcast live and online from one room in a South American village, ZOO MOTEL takes you on a journey to Spain, Japan, the Mojave Desert, and other parts of the world alongside fellow motel guests. One room, endless possibilities. ZOO MOTEL.
FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION:
www.theatreexile.org
www.zoomotel.org
ABOUT BRIYANA D. CLAREL
Briyana D. Clarel – is a Black queer theatre artist, writer, and educator passionate about musical theatre, mangoes, and memoirs. Briyana is the host of A Very Virgo Virtual Show and the founder of The Starfruit Project, a platform supporting radical healing and brilliant growth through creativity. Briyana’s poetry and prose are published in TAYO Literary Magazine, cavity, Black Youth Project, MELANINzine, and print anthologies. As a director, performer, and playwright, they have brought stories to life with the Painted Bride Art Center, Shoe Box Theatre Collective, Theatre Evolve, Dixon Place, Broad Views on Broadway, Cabernet Cabaret ATX, Philly Free Fringe, and more. Their solo show unboxed: a healing debuted at the 2018 OUTsider Festival. Briyana is a 2016 recipient of the Acts of Greatness LGBTQ Youth Community Award, a 2020-2021 Core Playwright with InterAct Theatre Company, and a 2020 Leeway Foundation Arts and Change Grantee. They are one-fourth of Philly sketch comedy team The Rhubarbs and a member of Ring of Keys. Born and raised in South Jersey, Briyana earned an AB in Sociology from Princeton University. They love sleep, ferns, and taro bubble tea. Keep up with their adventures at briyanaclarel.com and @briyanaclarel.
ABOUT DIRECTORS GATHERING and JAM
Directors Gathering serves directors to serve the theatre.
Directors Gathering (DG) is a membership organization that through the power of community consistently provides development, connections, and process-based opportunities for regional theatre directors.
(DG) is committed to creating anti-racist, inclusive, equitable, safe, accessible, and transparent spaces in all facets of our gathering.
JAM is a new approach to JAM. It's not just about the process of the director it's about directing as an experience. Directors can at times feel isolated so JAM this year is about bringing directors together to JAM! We've been affectionately calling JAM a mini residency this year.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://directorsgathering.com
Twitter: @DirectorsGather
Instagram: @DirectorsGather
About The Artists
Schulman and Behrend have been collaborating on bold new theater works since 2017, responding to and reflecting on questions of faith, loss, and the pep-zing-zap of life in between.
For Tickets and Information: https://fringearts.com/event/welcome-to-the-shiva-house/
ABOUT JAMES JACKSON
Independent theatre producer: Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, James Jackson is a freelance artist of theatre direction, design, and production; as well as still & motion picture production.
http://raveneyes.com
ABOUT LIGHT THIEF PRODUCTIONS
Light Thief LLC is a production company serving the technical, creative, and equipment needs of business clients in the theatrical, live event, photography, film, advertising, video, and commercial production spaces.
Light Thief on YouTube
ABOUT Brie Knight
Brie is an emerging Playwright based in Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphia Playwright’s Lab, The Foundry. Brie earned her M.A in Theater from Villanova University, where she also served as a Graduate Assistant in the Theater Department. Her play PANCAKE QUEEN received the 2015 Sue Winge Playwriting Award from Villanova University and will be featured in PlayPenn’s 2017 Conference. PANCAKE QUEEN received its first reading as part of the inaugural Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. It was at Villanova where she also developed her solo show, THE “N” WORD. She served as a Dramaturgy Intern at People’s Light, where she worked on WOODY SEZ. Brie’s works weave the fantastical into socially conscious, historically rooted stories, to illuminate societal issues and barriers around identity, race, class, and gender.
ABOUT PANCAKE QUEEN
In 1893 St. Joseph, Missouri, Nancy Green strives to make peace with her painful past so she may live her future as a free woman. When she finds herself employed by a local miller, Randolph T. Davis, to portray his new, revolutionary merchandising symbol, Aunt Jemima at the Chicago’s World Fair, her past experiences and future dreams collide. As Nancy fights to make a life of her own design, she risks being consumed by Aunt Jemima and the past she wants to leave behind.
ABOUT ARGENT COMBAT
Argent Combat is a Philadelphia-based organization of students, performers, choreographers, and instructors of Theatrical Violence and Stage Combat. We are dedicated to promoting safety and fostering the excellence and proficiency of action-oriented entertainment.
Mission Statement
Our objectives are
1.) to uphold these values,
2.) to encourage safe techniques for performers and enthusiasts,
3.) to adapt styles of historical and modern forms of combat to dynamic theatrical performances,
4.) to provide artists with the tools they need to develop confidence in their autonomy,
and 5.) to expand Theatre’s influence by engendering new students and audiences who enjoy the expression of stories and emotions through theatrical violence.
In furtherance of these goals, Argent Combat routinely offers workshops and ongoing classes in a variety of disciplines all over Philadelphia, and members can be found attending Regional and National Workshops all over North America.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.argentcombat.com/
When corona began to hit, Eleanor Safer and Paige Zubel didn’t want to stop making art. Turns out, a lot of people didn’t want to stop making art. So we created a five day short play festival on Facebook Live. And we were shocked by the response! People were so excited to see it and we received lots of emails from folks asking to be a part of it.
Now, partnered with director, Shamus Hunter McCarty, we’ve created the company Maladjusted and decided to expand that festival as our company’s first producing event.
Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 7pm, join us for a short, digital play. They’ll be streamed right here to Facebook Live. And then on Saturdays at 7pm, join us for a continuing choose your own adventure series where you decide what the characters do next. This story will continue every week, so make sure you keep up with the episodes! Don’t worry, if you can’t catch it live, we’ll leave all our videos posted right here!
We’re so excited to be making art in this hard time. We hope you’ll join us!
FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.facebook.com/GoingViralFestival/
ABOUT SHREK: THE MUSICAL
The greatest fairy tale never told comes to life as never before in Shrek The Musical, the award-winning Broadway musical based on the Oscar-winning movie. A reclusive ogre finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking donkey and a feisty princess. Throw in a short-tempered wannabe king, a cookie with an attitude, and over a dozen other classic fairy tale misfits, and you've got the makings of a riotously dysfunctional road trip. Featuring all-new songs and outrageous humor, Shrek The Musical is ogre-sized holiday fun for the whole family!
FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION: http://walnutstreettheatre.org
ABOUT THE BRIDGE PHL
Fostering healing connections between our rich and diverse communities by encouraging openness and dialogue about perspectives on racial prejudice, privilege, inclusion, intersectionality, and bias.
On today’s podcast, Jenna Kuerzi talks about creating a through line between Johnny Depp and Late-Stage Capitalism. Featured as part of Philly Theatre Week. Now, making its International debut! Here’s my interview with Jenna Kuerzi.
Kyle V. Hiller is a writer and editor born and raised in West Philadelphia. Kyle has been a freelance journalist since 2014 and published his first novel, The Recital, in 2016. His second novel, Project Anjou, is slated for 2020. He's one of the hosts of the podcast Casual Misfit Radio and co-founder of Angelella Editorial. When he's not doing writerly things, he's listening to '80s Japanese city pop vinyls, improvising culinary adventures, geeking over video games, and contemplating the mysteries of space and the ocean. If you're bored, you can follow him on Twitter and Instagram.