Inis Nua’s Once Upon a Bridge dramatizes a random act of violence with empathy and suspense. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMThe line between truth and memory blurs in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, given a riveting revival by Lantern Theater Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:23PMThe Flatlanders, a new play by Bruce Graham from 1812 Productions, is an unfunny throwback to the heyday of boulevard comedy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:27PMPlaywright Sasha Denisova channels the strength and resilience of her Ukrainian mother in My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion, on stage at the Wilma Theater in a co-production with DC’s Wo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:15AMThe music of Béla Bartók speaks better than its pretentious interlocutors in Bartók’s Monster, a collaboration of Sebastienne Mundheim and the Pig Iron School, inspired by Penn lecturer…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PMDespite its weighty title, Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God at Theatre Exile considers questions of humanity and friendship, and it's among the first must-see shows of th…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:15PMThe music recording label opens a global celebration of 125 years, and the only soirée of its kind happening in the US is right on Broad Street. Cameron Kelsall previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:06PMSelling Kabul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist at InterAct Theatre Company, wrestles with the human cost of occupation and war. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:20PMThe national tour of Wicked returns to Philadelphia for the first time in six years. How’s it holding up? Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:53AMEgoPo Classic Theater opens a season of international perspectives with Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs, co-produced by South Africa’s Abrahamse and Meyer Productions. Cameron Kelsall re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:17PMLyric Fest celebrated the centennial of composer Ned Rorem with a rare complete performance of Evidence of Things Not Seen. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:25PMThe Arden Theatre Company considers Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins through a chilling contemporary lens. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PMDirectorial bells and whistles impede the socialist message of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara at Quintessence Theatre Group. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMThe fruit juice flies in Citrus Andronicus, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s creative retelling of the Shakespearean revenge tragedy in this year’s Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:57AMOne woman’s quest to score a ticket to her favorite band’s farewell show takes on moving dimensions in They’ve All Gone And We’ll Go Too in this year’s Fringe. Cameron Kelsall revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:07PMA highly conceptualized production of True West at People’s Light offers striking visuals but scant drama. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PMPolitically charged yet emotionally joyous, a 1971 musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona knocks it out of Clark Park. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:17AMThere's little mirth to be found in Sandy Rustin's new comedy in the manner of an old style. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: The Cottage at the Helen Hayes Theater appeared first o…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:00PMPhiladelphia-based author James Whipple Miller offers a valuable portrait of the legendary composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, told largely through letters to her longtime friend Ruth Ro…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:33PMA Jewish man walks into a meeting of white supremacists in Alex Edelman's funny and thoughtful one-man show. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Just for Us at the Hudson Theatre appea…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:44AMOnstage at People’s Light, Boo Killebrew’s Lettie charts one woman’s bumpy road to re-entry after incarceration. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:19PMPlaywright Nilo Cruz revisits Two Sisters and a Piano, a tale of passion and oppression in early-nineties Havana, in a stagnant production at Two River Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:10PMAt the Arden, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee lingers on cheap jokes at the expense of adolescent self-discovery. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PMLantern Theater Company offers a delightfully comic and effortlessly romantic new production of Twelfth Night to close its season. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:37AMRajiv Joseph dribbles a new play about the friendship between two straight men and their love of basketball. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: King James at New York City Center Sta…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:00PMAzuka Theatre presents the world premiere of Christine Evans’s Galilee, which brings a personal dimension to the threat of climate change. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:45PMCurtis Opera Theatre closes its season with an ambitious but underwhelming Handel rarity. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:06AMOpera Philadelphia’s new production of La Bohème reverses the order of the classic opera, beginning with tragedy and progressing toward love. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:15PMIn the case of David Auburn's new play, you end up with something far less than the sum of its considerable parts. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Summer, 1976 at the Samuel J. Fri…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 10:18PMA pair of strangers learn to be brothers in Hymn, a tender two-hander from Inis Nua Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:56AMThe national tour of Into the Woods loses the thread of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairy-tale parable. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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