Sunday, 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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:16PMSaturday, June 2, 2018
‘The Last Five Years,’ at Hammonton, New Jersey’s Eagle Theatre, offers problematic scenes from a problematic marriage. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:42PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Act II Playhouse’s scaled down ‘Camelot’ reveals the flaws of this Golden Age musical. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:44PMThursday, May 24, 2018
‘Mamma Mia!’ at Walnut Street Theatre may have you dancing in the aisles — or bolting for the exit. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:06PMMonday, May 14, 2018
‘Turning Off the Morning News,’ premiering at McCarter Theatre Center, returns playwright Christopher Durang to his angry, absurdist roots. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:53PMFriday, May 4, 2018
A musicalization of Marivaux’s ‘The Triumph of Love,’ at Bristol Riverside Theatre, fails to balance the source play’s humor and pathos. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:53PMTheatre Horizon offers a whimsical, wistful, and refreshingly feminist take on the popular ‘Peter and the Starcatcher.’ Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:48AMThursday, April 26, 2018
'Sing the Body Electric' highlights playwright Michael Hollinger’s knack for crafting naturalistic dialogue and sympathetic characters, but the whole often feels less than the sum of its p…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:29PMFriday, April 13, 2018
‘Tell Me on a Sunday,' at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3, trades in gender stereotypes and clunky storytelling. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:07PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Quintessence Theatre Group premieres a compelling adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘The Wild Duck’. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:00PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Irish Heritage Theatre collects five short plays about the Irish women of yesterday and today, and delivers mixed results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:58PMMonday, April 2, 2018
GoKash OnSTAGE's residency at the Arden presents ‘V to X,’ exploring the world of for-profit incarceration and the state of black lives behind bars. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:09AMSaturday, March 24, 2018
‘Noises Off,’ Michael Frayn’s evergreen farce, proves its durability once more at the Walnut Street Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:12AMSunday, March 18, 2018
Regina Taylor’s ‘Crowns,’ at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center, gives voice to the special relationship between black women and their hats. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:33PMFriday, March 16, 2018
Bryony Lavery’s ‘Frozen,' from Isis Productions, fails to explore the fetishization of forgiveness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:23PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Leonard Bernstein’s ‘A Quiet Place,’ warts and all, gets a thoughtful treatment from Curtis Opera Theatre and Opera Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:10AMMonday, March 12, 2018
'Aipotu,' the second installment of John Guare’s ‘Lydie Breeze’ trilogy, at EgoPo Classic Theater, deconstructs the utopian myth. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:26PMSaturday, March 10, 2018
Lydia R. Diamond's adaptation of ‘The Bluest Eye’ at Arden Theatre Company, fails to capture the wrenching power of Toni Morrison’s landmark novel. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:45PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Despite a stylish production from Curio Theatre Company, David Adjmi's ‘Marie Antoinette’ offers little insight on the complicated monarch. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:56PMThursday, February 15, 2018
Broadway Philadelphia brings the national tour of ‘Waitress’ to Philadelphia. It serves up a pile of sugar, but needs a pinch of salt. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:04AMSunday, February 11, 2018
Opera Philadelphia’s local premiere of ‘Written on Skin’ offers a fresh spin on a contemporary masterpiece. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:43PMDelaware Theatre Company’s regional premiere of Simon Stephens’s ‘Heisenberg’ disrupts our rom-com expectations of meeting cute. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:58PMMonday, February 5, 2018
On their way to Carnegie Hall, pianist Daniil Trifonov and baritone Matthias Goerne make beautiful, intense music at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:38PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Quintessence Theatre Group’s fresh, invigorating ‘Waiting for Godot’ foregrounds the humanity and heart of Samuel Beckett’s tramps. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:03PMSaturday, February 3, 2018
EgoPo Classic Theater’s premiere of John Guare’s ‘Lydie Breeze’ trilogy gets off to an arresting and maddening start with 'Cold Harbor.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:48PMMonday, January 29, 2018
Bristol Riverside Theatre chronicles the war at home in Donald Margulies’s ‘Time Stands Still.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:22AMThursday, January 25, 2018
Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Stephen Karam's ‘The Humans’ gets clogged up in kitchen sink realism. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:10PMMonday, January 22, 2018
McCarter Theatre Center’s ‘Stones in His Pockets’ has charm, but often reinforces the stereotypes it tries to subvert. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:33PMMichael Frayn’s acclaimed ‘Copenhagen’ shows its age in Lantern Theater Company’s 10th anniversary production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:23PMSunday, January 7, 2018
Walnut Street Theatre’s lively production occasionally lifts ‘Baskerville,' Ken Ludwig’s leaden Arthur Conan Doyle adaptation. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:55PMSunday, December 24, 2017
Cameron Kelsall didn't plan to write a 2017 Best-of theater list, but considering the proliferation of excellent new work by local playwrights, he couldn't help himself.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:44PM 
