Tuesday, 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 02:00PMMonday, April 1, 2019
Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore’ is revenge tragedy done rippingly right. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:30PMFriday, March 29, 2019
‘How to Catch Creation’ launches an ambitious, important push for greater representation at Philadelphia Theatre Company, but Christina Anderson’s play feels frustrating and predictabl…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:45PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
‘The Few’ considers the desolate lives of long-haul truckers, but Theatre Horizon’s production of Samuel D. Hunter’s play sets an inconsistent tone. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:28PMMonday, March 25, 2019
EgoPo Classic Theater concludes its South African season with two perspectives on life under apartheid. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:07PM‘Marvin’s Room,’ presented in a revival by Isis Productions, considers the emotional labor of familial obligation. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:55PMFriday, March 22, 2019
'Fishskin Trousers,' the latest in Inis Nua’s Pop-Up Play in a Pub series, offers too many dangling threads that never fully coalesce. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:23PMThe national tour of ‘Miss Saigon’ arrives in Philadelphia awash in dated, Orientalist tropes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:33PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
A fine central performance lifts ‘Kate: An Unexamined Life,’ at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3, from the realm of biographical predictability. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PMMonday, March 11, 2019
Curtis Opera Theatre takes a gutsy chance by grappling with the thorny sexual politics of ‘Don Giovanni,’ but R.B. Schlather’s revisionist production often misses the mark. Cameron Kel…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:06PMSunday, March 10, 2019
Exquisite singing and orchestral playing enlivens a by-the-numbers production of ‘Cosí fan tutte’ at AVA. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:02PMArden Theatre Company’s breathtaking production of August Wilson’s ‘Gem of the Ocean’ honors the past and looks ahead to the present. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:43PMMonday, February 18, 2019
In ‘Gatz,’ Elevator Repair Service puts Fitzgerald on stage for eight sometimes fascinating, sometimes frustrating hours. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:42PMFriday, February 15, 2019
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ swells with treacly sentimentality. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:52PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
Curio Theatre Company’s ‘Three Sisters, by RashDash, After Chekhov’ interrogates theatrical traditions and gendered expectations. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:19PMSouth Camden Theatre Company ably pairs ‘The Duck Variations’ and ‘The Dumb Waiter,’ early-career successes for David Mamet and Harold Pinter. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:51PMThe boundaries between fantasy and reality blur too frequently in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s ‘Dream Girl.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:11PMMonday, February 4, 2019
‘Cana of Galilee,’ the latest DIY offering from Kensington’s Hella Fresh Theater, considers growth and grief with surprising power. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:34PMEgoPo Classic Theater powerfully explores the doomed Prozorov sisters, and the future of South Africa, in Reza de Wet’s ‘Three Sisters Two.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:44PMTemple Theaters revives ‘Fabulation, or, the Re-Education of Undine,’ an early Lynn Nottage play that nods to 19th-century sentimental fiction. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:03PMSaturday, February 2, 2019
The important themes of ‘Hype Man: A Break Beat Play,’ at InterAct Theatre Company, too often get lost in the musical shuffle. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:20PMSunday, January 27, 2019
Timeless and timely, ‘Ragtime’ reinforces its status as a great American musical in Eagle Theatre’s fine production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:19PMLike its octogenarian protagonist, ‘On Golden Pond,’ now onstage at Bristol Riverside Theatre, shows its age. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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