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 10:32AMMichael 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 09:54AMBrian 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 02:18PMThe 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 12:25PMToo 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 09:30PMBig 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 12:13PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company’s Empathitrax tests the limits of love and pharmaceutical intervention. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:11PMAnna 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 09:30PMThe 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 12:24PMLynn 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 01:31PMClifford Odets’s pro-labor drama remains relevant, despite a clumsily didactic production by Quintessence Theatre Group. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:44PMStar 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 04:55PMNow 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 11:13AMThe 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 07:32PMBruce 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 09:30PMPlaywright 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 02:39PMRoom 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 10:26AMSensitive subjects get short shrift in Gidion’s Knot, which opens the season at Curio Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:09PMInis 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 05:40PMThe 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 11:55AMThe dynamic pianist Daniil Trifonov headlined the Philadelphia Orchestra’s musically diverse and satisfying opening weekend concerts. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:21AMSlack 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 05:14PMWith 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 12:28PMIdiopathic 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 12:38PMAfter 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 02:21PMOnce 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 03:33PMGrand 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 01:51PMEgoPo 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 02:47PMDespite 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 04:14PMThe Arden takes another trip Into the Woods, with delightful and poignant results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:03PMFencing and friendship are equally dangerous sports in Athena, a razor-sharp coming-of-age comedy at Theatre Horizon. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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