Thursday, September 5, 2024
Damon Bonetti makes a rocking galactic tour guide in T.REXTASY, an entry in the Fringe and Cannonball Festivals from 100th Meridian. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:35PMFriday, August 30, 2024
Despite powerful singing, the national tour of Les Misérables more closely resembles a theme-park attraction than a work of theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:11PMTuesday, August 20, 2024
Cameron Kelsall remembers BSR writer Margaret Darby, who died in April. She was a musician, linguist, and librarian; an astute yet generous journalist and critic; and a beloved colleague and…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:31PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Two avatars of well-known congresswomen square off in a slim, repetitive play by Mario Correa. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:30PMWednesday, June 19, 2024
Off By One, a world premiere at People’s Light about a writer and the impact of his work, featuring TV and film star David Strathairn, feels stuck in the draft stage. Cameron Kelsall revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:22AMMonday, June 10, 2024
Hilma, a contemporary opera receiving its world premiere at the Wilma Theater, fails to capture the artistry or mystical charisma of its subject, the painter Hilma af Klint. Cameron Kelsall …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:19PMQuintessence Theatre Group’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home From the Wars: Parts I, II & III only intermittently captures the grandeur of the text. Cameron Kelsal…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:24AMMonday, May 27, 2024
A thoughtfully reimagined production of Once on This Island smartly overcomes elements of the 1990 musical that haven’t aged well. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:13AMMonday, May 20, 2024
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia’s season-ending concert welcomed star pianist Simone Dinnerstein and saw the end of Dirk Brossé’s tenure as music director. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:55PMThursday, April 25, 2024
Shaina Taub's likable suffragist musical could use some of its own advice. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 11:24AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Heidi Schreck's crisp new adaptation of Chekhov's play takes the stage at Lincoln Center. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:00PMWednesday, April 3, 2024
The Philadelphia Orchestra experiments with a new, casual concert format in its Orchestra After 5 series. Cameron Kelsall previews their latest event.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:09PMThursday, March 21, 2024
A new musical adaptation of the weepy Nicholas Sparks novel leaves our critic with dry eyes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 02:34PMTuesday, March 19, 2024
Curtis Opera Theatre inventively pairs two works from the 20th century that consider the struggles of women in society: Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brech…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:06PMThursday, March 14, 2024
Charles Busch returns with a new play that gets lost in its own point of view. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 08:00PMMonday, March 11, 2024
Inis Nua’s Once Upon a Bridge dramatizes a random act of violence with empathy and suspense. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMMonday, February 12, 2024
The line between truth and memory blurs in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, given a riveting revival by Lantern Theater Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:23PMMonday, February 5, 2024
The Flatlanders, a new play by Bruce Graham from 1812 Productions, is an unfunny throwback to the heyday of boulevard comedy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:27PMPlaywright Sasha Denisova channels the strength and resilience of her Ukrainian mother in My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion, on stage at the Wilma Theater in a co-production with DC’s Wo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:15AMMonday, January 22, 2024
The music of Béla Bartók speaks better than its pretentious interlocutors in Bartók’s Monster, a collaboration of Sebastienne Mundheim and the Pig Iron School, inspired by Penn lecturer…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PMMonday, January 15, 2024
Despite its weighty title, Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God at Theatre Exile considers questions of humanity and friendship, and it's among the first must-see shows of th…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:15PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
The music recording label opens a global celebration of 125 years, and the only soirée of its kind happening in the US is right on Broad Street. Cameron Kelsall previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:06PMMonday, November 6, 2023
Selling Kabul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist at InterAct Theatre Company, wrestles with the human cost of occupation and war. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:20PMThe national tour of Wicked returns to Philadelphia for the first time in six years. How’s it holding up? Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:53AMMonday, October 30, 2023
EgoPo Classic Theater opens a season of international perspectives with Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs, co-produced by South Africa’s Abrahamse and Meyer Productions. Cameron Kelsall re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:17PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
Lyric Fest celebrated the centennial of composer Ned Rorem with a rare complete performance of Evidence of Things Not Seen. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:25PMFriday, September 29, 2023
The Arden Theatre Company considers Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins through a chilling contemporary lens. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PMThursday, September 21, 2023
Directorial bells and whistles impede the socialist message of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara at Quintessence Theatre Group. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMTuesday, September 12, 2023
The fruit juice flies in Citrus Andronicus, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s creative retelling of the Shakespearean revenge tragedy in this year’s Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:57AMThursday, September 7, 2023
One woman’s quest to score a ticket to her favorite band’s farewell show takes on moving dimensions in They’ve All Gone And We’ll Go Too in this year’s Fringe. Cameron Kelsall revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:07PMMonday, August 14, 2023
A highly conceptualized production of True West at People’s Light offers striking visuals but scant drama. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PM 
