Monday, March 16, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and Mayor Kenney’s prohibition of large gatherings forced the Philadelphia Orchestra to live-stream a Beethoven concert from an empty Verizon Hall. Cameron Kelsall re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:49PMWednesday, March 11, 2020
In times of political turmoil, we seek comfort in examples of righteousness. That explains CONSCIENCE, a snappy slice of history receiving its world premiere at George Street Playhouse. Play…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:23PMMonday, March 9, 2020
The dubious legacy of Senator Joe McCarthy is well known. ‘Conscience,’ at George Street Playhouse, explores his early adversary Margaret Chase Smith, who sounded an alarm well before hi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:43PMFriday, March 6, 2020
‘The Agitators’ at Theatre Horizon dramatizes the decades-long friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:32PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
‘The Steward of Christendom’ chronicles the Lear-like fall of the final Dublin police chief under home rule. Irish Heritage Theatre’s inconsistent production shows his pitiful demise, …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:07PMOrgan virtuoso Paul Jacobs returned to the Philadelphia Orchestra with Michael Daugherty’s ‘Once Upon a Castle,’ an exhilarating symphonie concertante written especially for him. Camer…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PMFriday, February 21, 2020
The Academy of Vocal Arts offers a production of Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite,’ in its original French version, where the worthwhile elements outweigh the questionable ones. Cameron Kelsal…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:19PMMonday, February 17, 2020
‘Outside Mullingar,’ an Irish romance by John Patrick Shanley, receives a sweet-natured staging at Delaware Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:57PMSunday, February 9, 2020
Curio Theatre Company’s ‘I Heart Alice Heart I’ explores a decades-long partnership with humor and tenderness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:45PMEgoPo Classic Theater’s production of ‘Fool For Love’ lacks the charged current that pulls the doomed central couple together, even as it guarantees their mutual destruction. Cameron K…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:54PMOnce again, the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium explores meaning, truth, language, and absurdity in ‘The Bald Soprano’. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:44PMMonday, February 3, 2020
The acclaimed classical troupe Bedlam brings a streamlined and confounding adaptation of ‘King Lear’ to Bristol Riverside Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:37PMVerdi’s operatic ‘Requiem’ gets top-drawer treatment from the orchestra, chorus, and soloists of Opera Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:37AMSunday, February 2, 2020
Piano superstar Daniil Trifonov offered revelatory readings of two Beethoven concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra, played alongside underheard works by two women composers. Cameron Kels…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:14PMMonday, January 27, 2020
‘Midwives,’ an adaptation of Chris Bohjalian’s best-selling novel, gets a rocky birth onstage at George Street Playhouse. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:35PMFriday, January 24, 2020
‘My General Tubman,’ a skillful playwriting debut at the Arden from Philadelphia author Lorene Cary, binds the legacy of Harriet Tubman to the current moment in history. Cameron Kelsall …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:22PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Two River Theater’s production of ‘Twelfth Night’ is visually appealing but tonally unbalanced. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:46PM‘Goodnight Nobody,’ a promising and well-produced world premiere at McCarter Theatre Center, still needs to figure out what kind of play it wants to be. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:15PMSunday, January 19, 2020
The Philly Pops paid loving tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, in an evening that highlighted his strengths and weaknesses as a composer. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:02PMSaturday, December 28, 2019
The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Alban Berg’s ‘Wozzeck’ too often favors visual flourish over storytelling, but music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a revelatory rea…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:00PMSunday, December 22, 2019
An evening of cantatas, presented by Gamut Bach Ensemble and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, put critic Cameron Kelsall in a Christmas mood.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:07PMThursday, December 12, 2019
A confounding narrative framework derails Joyce DiDonato’s ‘Winterreise’ at Princeton University. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:32PMMonday, December 9, 2019
Simpatico Theatre’s production of ‘Natural Shocks,’ a slim but effective play by Lauren Gunderson, benefits from a brilliant performance by Amanda Schoonover. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:49PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Renée Taylor knows her way around a joke. Now 86, the Bronx-born comedienne has spent the better part of seven decades making the public laugh as a writer, actress and personality.
SOURCE: recliningstandards.com at 11:53AMSunday, November 24, 2019
A high musical standard made up for dramaturgical cloudiness in Curtis Opera Theatre’s ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:32PMThursday, November 21, 2019
‘An Iliad,’ a didactic refashioning of Homer’s epic poem, receives a flat staging at the Arden’s Horan Studio Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:37PMMonday, November 18, 2019
‘Love in Hate Nation,’ a joyously original riff on bad-girl movie tropes, continues the copacetic relationship of composer Joe Iconis and Two River Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:38PMThursday, November 14, 2019
Mozart’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ may be a bread-and-butter opera, but that’s no excuse for AVA’s stale staging. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:44PMMonday, November 11, 2019
Azuka Theatre’s production of Dominique Morriseau’s ‘Sunset Baby’ benefits from a sensational central performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:19PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Curio Theatre Company’s production of ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep’ isn’t a total drag, but it often misses the comic mark. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:40PM‘Woman and Scarecrow,’ Marina Carr’s enthralling exploration of the end of life, receives a haunting and stunningly acted local premiere from Irish Heritage Theatre. Cameron Kelsall re…
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