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 11:07AMShakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ never settles for easy laughs. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:39PMJen Silverman’s ‘Dangerous House,’ at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, chronicles the perilous lives of LGBTQ people in supposedly progressive contemporary South Afr…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:39PM'Woody Sez,’ in a return performance at People’s Light, offers music for the moment. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:55AMShakespeare Theatre of New Jersey cranks up the carnage in ‘Titus Andronicus’ without shying away from the play’s problematic treatment of women and race. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:57PMPennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s Extreme Shakespeare series presents an original-practices production of ‘All’s Well That Ends Well,’ with confounding results. Cameron Kelsall rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:02AMLillian Hellman’s ‘The Children’s Hour’ remains powerful and thought-provoking, despite an uneven production from Princeton Summer Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:04AMPennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s ‘King Richard II’ dumbs down one of the Bard’s most complicated monarchs. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:16PM‘On the Exhale,’ a gun drama from Theater with a View, shoots blanks. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:54PMA stage adaptation of ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, coasts on a healthy dose of charm. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:55PMHedgerow Theatre Company’s new adaptation of ‘His Girl Friday’ screws up screwball comedy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:33PMSoLow Fest entries ‘Potts’ and ‘Table on Table on Table’ offer new glosses on familiar stories. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:45PM‘Ragtime,’ based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, remains strikingly relevant at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:42PMDisney’s ‘Aladdin,’ presented by the Kimmel Center's Broadway Philadelphia, fails to cast a magic spell. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:32PMPhiladelphia Artists’ Collective resurrects the melodrama with ‘Maria Marten, or, The Murder in the Red Barn.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:00PMTaylor Mac’s ’A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Part II’ approaches perfect unity of music, text, and performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:54PM600 Highwaymen’s ‘The Fever,’ presented locally by PIFA, tests the limits of audience interaction. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:08PMMagical and maddening, Taylor Mac’s ’24-Decade History of Popular Music, Part I’ comes to Philadelphia courtesy of PIFA. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:16PM‘The Last Five Years,’ at Hammonton, New Jersey’s Eagle Theatre, offers problematic scenes from a problematic marriage. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:42PMAct II Playhouse’s scaled down ‘Camelot’ reveals the flaws of this Golden Age musical. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:44PM‘Mamma Mia!’ at Walnut Street Theatre may have you dancing in the aisles — or bolting for the exit. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:06PM‘Turning Off the Morning News,’ premiering at McCarter Theatre Center, returns playwright Christopher Durang to his angry, absurdist roots. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:53PMA musicalization of Marivaux’s ‘The Triumph of Love,’ at Bristol Riverside Theatre, fails to balance the source play’s humor and pathos. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:53PMTheatre Horizon offers a whimsical, wistful, and refreshingly feminist take on the popular ‘Peter and the Starcatcher.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:48AM'Sing the Body Electric' highlights playwright Michael Hollinger’s knack for crafting naturalistic dialogue and sympathetic characters, but the whole often feels less than the sum of its p…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:29PM‘Tell Me on a Sunday,' at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3, trades in gender stereotypes and clunky storytelling. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:07PMQuintessence Theatre Group premieres a compelling adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘The Wild Duck’. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:00PMIrish Heritage Theatre collects five short plays about the Irish women of yesterday and today, and delivers mixed results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:58PMGoKash OnSTAGE's residency at the Arden presents ‘V to X,’ exploring the world of for-profit incarceration and the state of black lives behind bars. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:09AM‘Noises Off,’ Michael Frayn’s evergreen farce, proves its durability once more at the Walnut Street Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:12AMRegina Taylor’s ‘Crowns,’ at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center, gives voice to the special relationship between black women and their hats. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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