Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:14PMMonday, November 4, 2019
‘Next to Normal’ remains a popular property on the regional-theater circuit, and is currently on stage at Bristol Riverside Theatre. But are the musical’s views on psychiatry and pharm…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:25PM‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ at the Arden Theatre Company, explores the myriad reasons that people seek advice. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:21PMMonday, October 28, 2019
Baseball, absentee fathers, and WWII: ‘Last Days of Summer,’ which opens the season at George Street Playhouse, piles on the clichés. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:53PMSunday, October 27, 2019
EgoPo Classic Theater opens a season devoted to Sam Shepard with an intriguing but tonally unbalanced ‘Buried Child.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:43PMAdam Bock’s nuanced, moving ‘A Small Fire’ is the most satisfying production Philadelphia Theatre Company has delivered in years. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMMonday, October 14, 2019
Inis Nua’s ‘The Night Alive’ is a disappointing first foray into the canon of Conor McPherson, Ireland’s most notable living playwright. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:50PMFriday, September 27, 2019
Arden Theatre Company’s season-opening production of ‘Ragtime’ is the most intimate critic Cameron Kelsall has ever seen. It’s also the least successful.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:23PMMonday, September 16, 2019
Part hagiography and part Wikipedia entry, McCarter’s ‘Gloria: A Life’ skims the surface of Steinem. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:28PMThursday, September 12, 2019
Lantern Theater Company’s production of ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ seems curiously stripped of its authoritarian subtext. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:15PMSaturday, September 7, 2019
David Hare’s ‘The Breath of Life,’ at South Camden Theatre Company, tells a story of women through the male gaze. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:57PMMonday, June 24, 2019
The national tour of ‘Cats’ offers a flea-bitten night at the theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:42PMFriday, May 24, 2019
‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ at Walnut Street Theatre is relentlessly charmless and dreadfully dated—but at least there’s a cute dog. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:18PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Caryl Churchill’s polemical drama ‘A Number’ receives a stunning, thought-provoking production from People’s Light. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:06AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
The actors in David Hare’s ‘Skylight’ prepare a pasta dish live on stage. It smells delicious, but we leave the stodgy drama feeling emotionally and intellectually starved. Cameron Kel…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:46PMThe newly formed Subscension Theatre offers a scrappy yet ambitious production of Brecht’s antiwar drama ‘Mother Courage and Her Children,’ performed al fresco in Headhouse Square. Cam…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:36PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
‘12 Chairs’ leans into familiar tropes about the mother-daughter dynamic in its world premiere with Juniper Productions. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45PM‘An Infinite Ache’ at South Camden Theatre Company offers a stale portrait of what it means to be part of a couple. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45PMA strong season of local August Wilson productions continues with ‘Fences’ at University of Delaware’s Resident Ensemble Players. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45PMTwo operas written nearly a century apart consider the familial wounds that time doesn’t heal. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45PMSunday, April 28, 2019
Extraordinary singing from several locally trained performers salvages Opera Philadelphia’s vulgar, high-concept ‘La Bohème.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:48PMMonday, April 15, 2019
Sarah Ruhl’s moving family dramedy ‘For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday’ receives an uneven staging at People’s Light. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:34PMThe national tour of ‘Anastasia,’ at the Academy of Music, delivered on spectacle but not coherent storytelling. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:01PMFriday, April 5, 2019
Gabriel Jason Dean’s ‘Heartland,’ at InterAct Theatre Company, gets awkwardly stuck between kitchen-sink drama and didactic political play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:51PMThursday, April 4, 2019
New York’s Classic Stage Company revives the legendary ‘The Cradle Will Rock’, by Philadelphia-born composer Marc Blitzstein. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:00PM 
