Saturday, July 28, 2018
Lillian 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 11:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2018
Pennsylvania 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[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
'On the Exhale,' a gun drama from Theater with a View, shoots blanks. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2018
A 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 04:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2018
Hedgerow Theatre Company's new adaptation of 'His Girl Friday' screws up screwball comedy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2018
SoLow 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[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
'Ragtime,' based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, remains strikingly relevant at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:42PM[SHARE]Disney's 'Aladdin,' presented by the Kimmel Center's Broadway Philadelphia, fails to cast a magic spell. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2018
Philadelphia Artists' Collective resurrects the melodrama with 'Maria Marten, or, The Murder in the Red Barn.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:00PM[SHARE]Taylor 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 09:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
600 Highwaymen's 'The Fever,' presented locally by PIFA, tests the limits of audience interaction. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2018
Magical 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[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2018
'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 01:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Act II Playhouse's scaled down 'Camelot' reveals the flaws of this Golden Age musical. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2018
'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[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2018
'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 05:53PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
A 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 05:53PM[SHARE]Theatre 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[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
'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 par…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:29PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2018
'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 02:07PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
Quintessence Theatre Group premieres a compelling adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'The Wild Duck'. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
Irish 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 09:58PM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2018
GoKash 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[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2018
'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 11:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
Regina Taylor's 'Crowns,' at Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center, gives voice to the special relationship between black women and their hats. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:33PM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2018
Bryony Lavery's 'Frozen,' from Isis Productions, fails to explore the fetishization of forgiveness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Leonard Bernstein's 'A Quiet Place,' warts and all, gets a thoughtful treatment from Curtis Opera Theatre and Opera Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:10AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
'Aipotu,' the second installment of John Guare's 'Lydie Breeze' trilogy, at EgoPo Classic Theater, deconstructs the utopian myth. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 10, 2018
Lydia R. Diamond's adaptation of 'The Bluest Eye' at Arden Theatre Company, fails to capture the wrenching power of Toni Morrison's landmark novel. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Despite a stylish production from Curio Theatre Company, David Adjmi's 'Marie Antoinette' offers little insight on the complicated monarch. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
Broadway Philadelphia brings the national tour of 'Waitress' to Philadelphia. It serves up a pile of sugar, but needs a pinch of salt. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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