Sunday, March 10, 2019
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]Monday, February 18, 2019
In 'Gatz,' Elevator Repair Service puts Fitzgerald on stage for eight sometimes fascinating, sometimes frustrating hours. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:42PM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2019
Philadelphia Theatre Company's 'The Bridges of Madison County' swells with treacly sentimentality. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Curio Theatre Company's 'Three Sisters, by RashDash, After Chekhov' interrogates theatrical traditions and gendered expectations. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:19PM[SHARE]South Camden Theatre Company ably pairs 'The Duck Variations' and 'The Dumb Waiter,' early-career successes for David Mamet and Harold Pinter. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:51PM[SHARE]The boundaries between fantasy and reality blur too frequently in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's 'Dream Girl.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:11PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2019
'Cana of Galilee,' the latest DIY offering from Kensington's Hella Fresh Theater, considers growth and grief with surprising power. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:34PM[SHARE]EgoPo Classic Theater powerfully explores the doomed Prozorov sisters, and the future of South Africa, in Reza de Wet's 'Three Sisters Two.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:44PM[SHARE]Temple Theaters revives 'Fabulation, or, the Re-Education of Undine,' an early Lynn Nottage play that nods to 19th-century sentimental fiction. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 2, 2019
The important themes of 'Hype Man: A Break Beat Play,' at InterAct Theatre Company, too often get lost in the musical shuffle. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 27, 2019
Timeless and timely, 'Ragtime' reinforces its status as a great American musical in Eagle Theatre's fine production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:19PM[SHARE]Like its octogenarian protagonist, 'On Golden Pond,' now onstage at Bristol Riverside Theatre, shows its age. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2019
'74 Seconds…To Judgment,' at the Arden Theatre Company, joins the pantheon of political plays that ask tough questions and reject easy answers. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:22PM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2019
Two River Theater's production of 'Noises Off,' Michael Frayn's durable backstage comedy, works too hard and achieves too little. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:22PM[SHARE]'The Niceties,' a thrilling new play at McCarter Theatre Center, considers academic freedom across a racial and generational divide. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2019
Harold Pinter's 'Betrayal,' at Lantern Theater Company, hasn't aged well. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 12, 2019
Mauckingbird Theatre Company puts a genderfluid spin on 'Fallen Angels,' an early Noël Coward hit, with middling results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2019
'Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,' on tour at the Academy of Music, offers a compelling portrait of a music industry trailblazer, but largely ignores the social issues of its time. Camero…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Theater critic Cameron Kelsall considers his favorite productions of 2018, and realizes that revivals venturing beyond the canon were worthy tickets.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
Tiny Dynamite opens its season with 'The Audience Disturbs Marcel's Bath Time and He Is Very Upset with You All', but the play's exploration of privacy culture does little to disturb the aud…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
'Noura,' at Playwrights Horizons in New York, uses Ibsen to explore the experiences of resettled Iraqi refugees in America. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:06PM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
A subtle, surprising production of Lucas Hnath's 'A Doll's House, Part 2' at George Street Playhouse warrants a look from Ibsen sequel skeptics. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:19PM[SHARE]11th Hour Theatre Company makes a strong case for the cult musical 'Children of Eden.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:41PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2018
'The Spitfire Grill,' at Hammonton, New Jersey's Eagle Theatre, offers a charming character study set to folksy music. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:49PM[SHARE]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 08:58AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:23PM[SHARE]Quintessence 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 02:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:42AM[SHARE]Monday, 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.
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