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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Penn Live Arts presents The Crossing and PRISM Quartet by Cameron Kelsall

The Crossing joined with PRISM Quartet to present the world premiere of Martin Bresnick’s austere, literary Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:32AM
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Review: Parade at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre by Cameron Kelsall

Michael Arden directs an "essential" revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's musical that "reaches its summit in its silences." Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Parade at t…

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:54AM
Friday, March 10, 2023

Irish Heritage Theatre presents Brian Friel’s The Bear and Afterplay by Cameron Kelsall

Brian Friel tackles the Russian master in The Bear and Afterplay, the latest double bill from Irish Heritage Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:18PM
Monday, March 6, 2023

PCMS presents the Brentano String Quartet’s Dvořák and the American Identity by Cameron Kelsall

The Brentano Quartet used their annual recital with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society to establish Antonin Dvořák as an American master. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:25PM
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Review: The Trees at Playwrights Horizons by Cameron Kelsall

Too many branches keep the trunk obscured in Agnes Borinsky's new play. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: The Trees at Playwrights Horizons appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:30PM
Thursday, February 23, 2023

The Walnut presents Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Cameron Kelsall

Big Daddy steals the show in Walnut Street Theatre’s new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:13PM
Friday, February 17, 2023

Philadelphia Theatre Company presents Ana Nogueira’s Empathitrax by Cameron Kelsall

Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Empathitrax tests the limits of love and pharmaceutical intervention. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:11PM
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Review: The Wanderers at the Laura Pels Theatre by Cameron Kelsall

Anna Ziegler's novelistic new work about writers, their parents, and Katie Holmes playing an actress meanders through tedium. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: The Wanderers at the L…

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:30PM
Thursday, February 9, 2023

Lantern Theater Company presents The Lifespan of a Fact by Cameron Kelsall

The Lifespan of a Fact, now onstage at Lantern Theater, considers the chasm between journalistic integrity and artistic license. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:24PM
Friday, February 3, 2023

Arden Theatre Company presents Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s by Cameron Kelsall

Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s, now onstage at the Arden Theatre, shows what a sandwich can say about life. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:31PM
Monday, January 23, 2023

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Clifford Odets’s Waiting for Lefty by Cameron Kelsall

Clifford Odets’s pro-labor drama remains relevant, despite a clumsily didactic production by Quintessence Theatre Group. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:44PM
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The New Jersey Symphony presents Daniil Trifonov Performs Brahms by Cameron Kelsall

Star soloist Daniil Trifonov brought lyricism and weight to Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto in the New Jersey Symphony’s first concert program of 2023. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:55PM
Friday, January 6, 2023

The Kimmel Cultural Campus presents the national tour of Jagged Little Pill: The Musical by Cameron Kelsall

Now at the Academy of Music as part of a national tour, Jagged Little Pill retrofits Alanis Morissette’s seminal album to a relentlessly topical contemporary musical. Cameron Kelsall revie…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:13AM
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Gustav Holst’s The Planets by Cameron Kelsall

The Philadelphia Orchestra summoned the majesty of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, while remembering the legacy of a departed friend. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:32PM
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Review: Downstate at Playwrights Horizons by Cameron Kelsall

Bruce Norris, "a brilliant button-pusher", wades into murky moral water with his latest play. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Downstate at Playwrights Horizons appeared first on E…

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:30PM
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Wilma Theater presents Milo Cramer's School Pictures by Cameron Kelsall

Playwright and performer Milo Cramer offers an endearing portrait of the modern education system in School Pictures at the Wilma Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:39PM
Monday, November 7, 2022

Theatre Exile presents Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play by Cameron Kelsall

Room to make inner feelings known: (L to R) Makoto Hirano, Matteo Scammell, and Keith Conallen in Theatre Exile’s ‘Wolf Play.’ (Photo by Paola Nogueras.)

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:26AM
Monday, October 31, 2022

Curio Theatre Company presents Johnna Adams’s Gidion’s Knot by Cameron Kelsall

Sensitive subjects get short shrift in Gidion’s Knot, which opens the season at Curio Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:09PM
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Inis Nua Theatre Company presents Yasmine Akram’s 10 Dates With Mad Mary by Cameron Kelsall

Inis Nua’s Pop-Up Play in a Pub series returns with new leadership, and the lively American premiere of 10 Dates With Mad Mary. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:40PM
Monday, October 24, 2022

Arden Theatre Company presents Tennessee Willliams’s The Glass Menagerie by Cameron Kelsall

The Glass Menagerie is a delicate masterpiece, but falls flat due to misunderstanding in the Arden’s season opener production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:55AM
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Daniil Trifonov in its 2022-23 season opener by Cameron Kelsall

The dynamic pianist Daniil Trifonov headlined the Philadelphia Orchestra’s musically diverse and satisfying opening weekend concerts. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:21AM
Monday, September 19, 2022

Lantern Theater Company presents Travesties by Cameron Kelsall

Slack pacing and a dire piece of miscasting sink the Lantern’s season-opening production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:14PM
Monday, September 12, 2022

Philly Fringe 2022: IHT presents Dermot Bolger’s In High Germany and The Parting Glass by Cameron Kelsall

With In High Germany and The Parting Glass, a pair of plays by Dermot Bolger, Irish Heritage Theatre explores Ireland’s lost generation and one man’s enduring fealty to soccer. Cameron K…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:28PM
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Philly Fringe 2022: IRC presents Tennessee Williams’s The Two-Character Play by Cameron Kelsall

Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium dives into the weird and wonderful world of Tennesse Williams’s The Two-Character Play as part of the Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:38PM
Monday, August 22, 2022

Following the Philadelphia Orchestra to its summer residency in Saratoga Springs, NY by Cameron Kelsall

After a season of covering the Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall, music critic Cameron Kelsall followed it to Saratoga Springs, New York. Programs spanning Beethoven to Barber and Valer…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PM
Thursday, August 18, 2022

The Kimmel Cultural Campus presents the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen by Cameron Kelsall

Once a cultural phenomenon, Dear Evan Hansen now feels manipulative and misguided as its national tour plays Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:33PM
Monday, August 15, 2022

People’s Light presents Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons by Cameron Kelsall

Grand Horizons at People’s Light explores the fallout from the end of a long marriage, but Bess Wohl’s boulevard comedy chooses cheap laughs over high stakes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:51PM
Monday, June 20, 2022

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class by Cameron Kelsall

EgoPo Classic Theater finally concludes its survey of Sam Shepard with his brutal, bitingly funny Curse of the Starving Class. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:47PM
Friday, June 10, 2022

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Alexandre Dumas fils’s Camille by Cameron Kelsall

Despite a stylish physical production, Quintessence Theatre’s Camille lacks the passion of traditional melodrama and the perspective needed for a contemporary reinvention. Cameron Kelsall …

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:14PM
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Arden Theatre Company presents Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods by Cameron Kelsall

The Arden takes another trip Into the Woods, with delightful and poignant results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:03PM
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Theatre Horizon presents Gracie Gardner’s Athena by Cameron Kelsall

Fencing and friendship are equally dangerous sports in Athena, a razor-sharp coming-of-age comedy at Theatre Horizon. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:35PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime