Monday, August 22, 2022
After a season of covering the Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall, music critic Cameron Kelsall followed it to Saratoga Springs, New York. Programs spanning Beethoven to Barber and Valer…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PMThursday, August 18, 2022
Once a cultural phenomenon, Dear Evan Hansen now feels manipulative and misguided as its national tour plays Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:33PMMonday, August 15, 2022
Grand Horizons at People’s Light explores the fallout from the end of a long marriage, but Bess Wohl’s boulevard comedy chooses cheap laughs over high stakes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:51PMMonday, June 20, 2022
EgoPo Classic Theater finally concludes its survey of Sam Shepard with his brutal, bitingly funny Curse of the Starving Class. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:47PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Despite a stylish physical production, Quintessence Theatre’s Camille lacks the passion of traditional melodrama and the perspective needed for a contemporary reinvention. Cameron Kelsall …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:14PMThursday, June 9, 2022
The Arden takes another trip Into the Woods, with delightful and poignant results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:03PMThursday, May 26, 2022
Fencing and friendship are equally dangerous sports in Athena, a razor-sharp coming-of-age comedy at Theatre Horizon. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:35PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Ana Nogueira pens "a love letter to the geeks, queerdos, and obsessives" and their complicated relationship with musical theatre and each other. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s string players took the spotlight in a performance anchored by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, with guest soloist Gil Shaham. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:45PMMonday, April 25, 2022
Thornton Wilder's ever-relevant play returns in a powerful, but inconsistent revival at Lincoln Center. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 10:00PMIn Where We Belong, a compelling but uneven solo work at Philadelphia Theatre Company, Madeline Sayet explores what it means to study Shakespeare from an Indigenous perspective. Cameron Kels…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:41PMThe Met premieres another new production of Donizetti's opera, this time in the hands of Australian auteur Simon Stone. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 12:58PMThursday, March 24, 2022
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Curio Theatre offers a complex, entertaining portrait of Billie Holiday’s final Philadelphia performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:21PMFriday, March 11, 2022
In Backing Track, a world premiere at the Arden, R. Eric Thomas offers a warm, witty portrait of a multigenerational Black queer family. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:59PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever, a world premiere from James Ijames at Theatre Horizon, asks its characters, and its audience, to wrestle with the complicated concept of inheritance. Cameron Kelsall r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:15PMMonday, March 7, 2022
Despite strong performances, Marsha Norman’s ’Night, Mother shows its age in a staging from Isis Productions. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:10PMMonday, February 21, 2022
Conductor Jeffrey Brillhart and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia highlighted the diversity of early modern music, showing how much vigor still resides in these oft-dismissed composition…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:11PMFriday, February 11, 2022
The touring production of Hadestown, a wildly popular retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, arrives at the Academy of Music with energy and verve. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:43PMFriday, February 4, 2022
Quintessence Theatre offers a modern, vibrant riff on Sophocles with Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:27PMMonday, January 31, 2022
Mussorgsky’s vivid Pictures at an Exhibition and a remarkable concerto by local composer Ke-Chia Chen enlivened the Philadelphia Orchestra’s most recent concerts, led by debuting conduct…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
The Tyrones face the opioid crisis and Covid-19 in Robert O'Hara's contemporary production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The post Review: Long Day’s Journey into Night at the Minetta Lane Thea…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:01PMMonday, January 24, 2022
EgoPo Classic Theater offers a rich portrait of connection through art in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:25PMFriday, January 21, 2022
The Arden Theatre Company’s long-delayed staging of A Streetcar Named Desire
lacks realism and magic. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:26PMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Chrystal E. Williams made her PCMS recital debut with an intriguing but uneven program. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:58AMThursday, December 9, 2021
In What the Constitution Means to Me, playwright Heidi Schreck examines the personal and political intersections of our country’s laws. Cameron Kelsall reviews an engagement of the nationa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMTuesday, December 7, 2021
In her first concerts as principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann balances repertory warhorses and new music with fresh ideas and attention to detail. Came…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:53PMFriday, November 19, 2021
The Garbologists, a world premiere from Philadelphia Theatre Company, searches for deep meaning in a dirty job but offers a fairly thin character study instead. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:07PMMonday, November 15, 2021
Fast-rising conductor Rafael Payare made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut with a program featuring a world-premiere Clarinet Concerto that highlighted the virtuosity of Ricardo Morales. Came…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:32PMTuesday, November 9, 2021
In Azuka Theatre’s Young Money, two women from different walks of life learn how much they have in common during a chaotic event. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:54PMOn November 5, Philadelphia audiences had two chances to discover Davóne Tines, recently named Vocalist of the Year by Musical America. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:10AMFriday, November 5, 2021
With the charming, edgy family comedy Extreme Home Makeover, Theatre Exile finally returns to its own South Philly home. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:41PM 
