Sunday, October 27, 2019
Adam Bock's nuanced, moving 'A Small Fire' is the most satisfying production Philadelphia Theatre Company has delivered in years. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
Inis Nua's 'The Night Alive' is a disappointing first foray into the canon of Conor McPherson, Ireland's most notable living playwright. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:50PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2019
Arden Theatre Company's season-opening production of 'Ragtime' is the most intimate critic Cameron Kelsall has ever seen. It's also the least successful.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:23PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2019
Part hagiography and part Wikipedia entry, McCarter's 'Gloria: A Life' skims the surface of Steinem. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2019
Lantern Theater Company's production of 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' seems curiously stripped of its authoritarian subtext. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 7, 2019
David Hare's 'The Breath of Life,' at South Camden Theatre Company, tells a story of women through the male gaze. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:57PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2019
The national tour of 'Cats' offers a flea-bitten night at the theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:42PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2019
'Legally Blonde: The Musical' at Walnut Street Theatre is relentlessly charmless and dreadfully dated"but at least there's a cute dog. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Caryl Churchill's polemical drama 'A Number' receives a stunning, thought-provoking production from People's Light. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
The actors in David Hare's 'Skylight' prepare a pasta dish live on stage. It smells delicious, but we leave the stodgy drama feeling emotionally and intellectually starved. Cameron Kelsall r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:46PM[SHARE]The newly formed Subscension Theatre offers a scrappy yet ambitious production of Brecht's antiwar drama 'Mother Courage and Her Children,' performed al fresco in Headhouse Square. Cameron K…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
'12 Chairs' leans into familiar tropes about the mother-daughter dynamic in its world premiere with Juniper Productions. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45PM[SHARE]'An Infinite Ache' at South Camden Theatre Company offers a stale portrait of what it means to be part of a couple. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45PM[SHARE]A strong season of local August Wilson productions continues with 'Fences' at University of Delaware's Resident Ensemble Players. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45PM[SHARE]Two operas written nearly a century apart consider the familial wounds that time doesn't heal. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2019
Extraordinary singing from several locally trained performers salvages Opera Philadelphia's vulgar, high-concept 'La Bohème.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:48PM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2019
Sarah Ruhl's moving family dramedy 'For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday' receives an uneven staging at People's Light. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:34PM[SHARE]The national tour of 'Anastasia,' at the Academy of Music, delivered on spectacle but not coherent storytelling. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:01PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2019
Gabriel Jason Dean's 'Heartland,' at InterAct Theatre Company, gets awkwardly stuck between kitchen-sink drama and didactic political play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
New York's Classic Stage Company revives the legendary 'The Cradle Will Rock', by Philadelphia-born composer Marc Blitzstein. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2019
Philadelphia Artists' Collective's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' is revenge tragedy done rippingly right. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:30PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2019
'How to Catch Creation' launches an ambitious, important push for greater representation at Philadelphia Theatre Company, but Christina Anderson's play feels frustrating and predictable. Cam…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2019
'The Few' considers the desolate lives of long-haul truckers, but Theatre Horizon's production of Samuel D. Hunter's play sets an inconsistent tone. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:28PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2019
EgoPo Classic Theater concludes its South African season with two perspectives on life under apartheid. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:07PM[SHARE]'Marvin's Room,' presented in a revival by Isis Productions, considers the emotional labor of familial obligation. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:55PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2019
'Fishskin Trousers,' the latest in Inis Nua's Pop-Up Play in a Pub series, offers too many dangling threads that never fully coalesce. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:23PM[SHARE]The national tour of 'Miss Saigon' arrives in Philadelphia awash in dated, Orientalist tropes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
A fine central performance lifts 'Kate: An Unexamined Life,' at Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, from the realm of biographical predictability. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2019
Curtis Opera Theatre takes a gutsy chance by grappling with the thorny sexual politics of 'Don Giovanni,' but R.B. Schlather's revisionist production often misses the mark. Cameron Kelsall r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2019
Exquisite singing and orchestral playing enlivens a by-the-numbers production of 'Cosà fan tutte' at AVA. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:02PM[SHARE]Arden Theatre Company's breathtaking production of August Wilson's 'Gem of the Ocean' honors the past and looks ahead to the present. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:43PM[SHARE] 
