Tuesday, September 18, 2018
‘Wolfcrush (a queer werewolf play)’ continues On the Rocks' boundary-pushing tradition with a new take on the teen wolf. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:46PM‘Pamela’s First Musical,’ a long-gestating collaboration between the late Wendy Wasserstein and Cy Coleman, should have stayed in mothballs. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:27AMThursday, September 13, 2018
‘Hapgood,’ at Lantern Theater Company, finds Tom Stoppard at his most self-consciously dense. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:18PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
The power of ‘Kill Move Paradise,’ James Ijames’s bracing new play at the Wilma Theater, lies in its sad ambiguity. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:24PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Bloated and self-indulgent, Trey Lyford’s ‘The Accountant’ offers little insight on the banality of corporate culture. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:28PMMonday, September 10, 2018
‘Bon Iver Fights a Bear,’ the latest work from playwright Douglas Williams, explores the hipster folk musician’s origin story. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:46PMSunday, September 9, 2018
The history of Jewish women takes center stage in ‘Behold Her,’ a Fringe Festival entry from Half Key Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:15AMThe history of Jewish women takes center stage in ‘Behold Her,’ a Fringe Festival entry from Half Key Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:15AMSaturday, September 8, 2018
‘The Presented,’ the latest one-person show from Chris Davis, gives off an old-school Fringe Festival vibe. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:53PMHeiner Goebbels’s ‘Songs of Wars I Have Seen,’ a curated Fringe Festival entry, awkwardly blurs the lines between music and theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMFriday, September 7, 2018
For this year’s Fringe, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium puts an absurdist spin on Tennessee Williams’s ‘The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:24PMThursday, September 6, 2018
'Peter Pan' author J.M. Barrie's ‘Mary Rose,’ Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s latest Fringe entry, tells a gorgeous ghost story. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:35AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
‘Do You Want a Cookie?’, a Philadelphia Fringe Festival offering from the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, explores cabaret’s personal and political history. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:03PMMonday, September 3, 2018
Unfortunately (considering the timing), Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical ‘Biloxi Blues,’ at Act II Playhouse, hasn’t aged well. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:07AMSunday, August 26, 2018
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ never settles for easy laughs. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:39PMFriday, August 17, 2018
Jen Silverman’s ‘Dangerous House,’ at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, chronicles the perilous lives of LGBTQ people in supposedly progressive contemporary South Afr…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:39PMFriday, August 10, 2018
'Woody Sez,’ in a return performance at People’s Light, offers music for the moment. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:55AMMonday, July 30, 2018
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey cranks up the carnage in ‘Titus Andronicus’ without shying away from the play’s problematic treatment of women and race. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:57PMPennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s Extreme Shakespeare series presents an original-practices production of ‘All’s Well That Ends Well,’ with confounding results. Cameron Kelsall rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:02AMSaturday, 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 11:04AMSunday, 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 06:16PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
‘On the Exhale,’ a gun drama from Theater with a View, shoots blanks. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:54PMSunday, 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 04:55PMSunday, 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 08:33PMThursday, 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 02:45PMSaturday, 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 03:42PMDisney’s ‘Aladdin,’ presented by the Kimmel Center's Broadway Philadelphia, fails to cast a magic spell. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:32PMSunday, 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 11:00PMTaylor 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 09:54PMThursday, 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 10:08PMSunday, 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.
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