Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Theatre Horizon’s outstanding production of ‘The Color Purple’ breaks new ground with familiar material. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:58AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Scott Greer shines in ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ back at the Arden, but the play itself only skims the surface of a difficult topic. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:23PMQuintessence Theatre Group puts a high-concept gloss on ‘Oliver!’, but some of the musical’s more questionable themes remain unexamined. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:27PMThursday, November 15, 2018
Curtis Opera Theatre’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ highlights the perils of classical companies adopting the musical theater idiom. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:56PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
In ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2,’ now at the Arden, Lucas Hnath distills the important issues of Ibsen’s great play into facile sound bites. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:04AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
Donald Margulies’s ‘Collected Stories,’ at Act II Playhouse, glibly explores the teacher/student relationship. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:42AMMonday, October 22, 2018
'Fireflies,’ a New York premiere by Philadelphia-born playwright Donja R. Love, explores the desires of a black queer woman in the Jim Crow south. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:41PMFriday, October 19, 2018
Philadelphia Theatre Company returns after a season-long absence with Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat,’ but the first fruits of Paige Price’s leadership feel frustratingly familiar. Cameron Ke…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:33AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Curio Theatre Company’s poignant ‘All My Sons’ smooths some of the rough edges of Arthur Miller’s overly symbolic play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:51PMDominique Morisseau’s ‘Detroit ’67,’ at McCarter Theatre Center, offers a portrait of the Motor City’s past, present, and future. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:35PMMonday, October 15, 2018
Vocal powerhouse Heather Headley chose the Philly POPS to debut her new solo show ‘Broadway My Way.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:18PMFriday, October 12, 2018
‘Broken Biscuits,’ a U.K. import from 1812 Productions, feels like an overly earnest after-school special. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:37AMMonday, October 8, 2018
11th Hour Theatre Company’s concert staging of ‘Grey Gardens’ fails to capture the what makes its subjects so charming, maddening, and fascinating. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:00PMSaturday, October 6, 2018
EgoPo Classic Theater imports a South African ‘Desire Under the Elms’, with mixed results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:20PMMonday, October 1, 2018
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey presents an uneven staging of ‘Buried Child,’ Sam Shepard’s disturbing domestic drama. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:06AMThursday, September 27, 2018
'Once,’ at Arden Theatre Company, offers a wistful, musical look at fleeting romance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:10PMFriday, September 21, 2018
‘Shelter,’ a Fringe Festival entry from Drip Symphony, offers an intriguing but ultimately wayward glimpse of artistic life. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:48PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
‘Wolfcrush (a queer werewolf play)’ continues On the Rocks' boundary-pushing tradition with a new take on the teen wolf. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:46PM‘Pamela’s First Musical,’ a long-gestating collaboration between the late Wendy Wasserstein and Cy Coleman, should have stayed in mothballs. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:27AMThursday, September 13, 2018
‘Hapgood,’ at Lantern Theater Company, finds Tom Stoppard at his most self-consciously dense. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:18PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
The power of ‘Kill Move Paradise,’ James Ijames’s bracing new play at the Wilma Theater, lies in its sad ambiguity. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:24PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Bloated and self-indulgent, Trey Lyford’s ‘The Accountant’ offers little insight on the banality of corporate culture. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:28PMMonday, September 10, 2018
‘Bon Iver Fights a Bear,’ the latest work from playwright Douglas Williams, explores the hipster folk musician’s origin story. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:46PMSunday, September 9, 2018
The history of Jewish women takes center stage in ‘Behold Her,’ a Fringe Festival entry from Half Key Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:15AMThe history of Jewish women takes center stage in ‘Behold Her,’ a Fringe Festival entry from Half Key Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:15AMSaturday, September 8, 2018
‘The Presented,’ the latest one-person show from Chris Davis, gives off an old-school Fringe Festival vibe. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:53PMHeiner Goebbels’s ‘Songs of Wars I Have Seen,’ a curated Fringe Festival entry, awkwardly blurs the lines between music and theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMFriday, September 7, 2018
For this year’s Fringe, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium puts an absurdist spin on Tennessee Williams’s ‘The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:24PMThursday, September 6, 2018
'Peter Pan' author J.M. Barrie's ‘Mary Rose,’ Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s latest Fringe entry, tells a gorgeous ghost story. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:35AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
‘Do You Want a Cookie?’, a Philadelphia Fringe Festival offering from the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, explores cabaret’s personal and political history. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:03PMMonday, September 3, 2018
Unfortunately (considering the timing), Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical ‘Biloxi Blues,’ at Act II Playhouse, hasn’t aged well. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:07AM 
