Ana Nogueira pens "a love letter to the geeks, queerdos, and obsessives" and their complicated relationship with musical theatre and each other. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Wh…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 08:00PMThe Philadelphia Orchestra’s string players took the spotlight in a performance anchored by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, with guest soloist Gil Shaham. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:45PMThornton Wilder's ever-relevant play returns in a powerful, but inconsistent revival at Lincoln Center. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: The Skin of Our Teeth at the Vivian Beaumon…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 10:00PMIn Where We Belong, a compelling but uneven solo work at Philadelphia Theatre Company, Madeline Sayet explores what it means to study Shakespeare from an Indigenous perspective. Cameron Kels…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:41PMThe Met premieres another new production of Donizetti's opera, this time in the hands of Australian auteur Simon Stone. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Lucia di Lammermoor at the …
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 12:58PMLady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Curio Theatre offers a complex, entertaining portrait of Billie Holiday’s final Philadelphia performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:21PMIn Backing Track, a world premiere at the Arden, R. Eric Thomas offers a warm, witty portrait of a multigenerational Black queer family. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:59PMTJ Loves Sally 4 Ever, a world premiere from James Ijames at Theatre Horizon, asks its characters, and its audience, to wrestle with the complicated concept of inheritance. Cameron Kelsall r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:15PMDespite strong performances, Marsha Norman’s ’Night, Mother shows its age in a staging from Isis Productions. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:10PMConductor Jeffrey Brillhart and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia highlighted the diversity of early modern music, showing how much vigor still resides in these oft-dismissed composition…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:11PMThe touring production of Hadestown, a wildly popular retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, arrives at the Academy of Music with energy and verve. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:43PMQuintessence Theatre offers a modern, vibrant riff on Sophocles with Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:27PMMussorgsky’s vivid Pictures at an Exhibition and a remarkable concerto by local composer Ke-Chia Chen enlivened the Philadelphia Orchestra’s most recent concerts, led by debuting conduct…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMThe Tyrones face the opioid crisis and Covid-19 in Robert O'Hara's contemporary production. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Long Day’s Journey into Night at the Minetta Lane Thea…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:01PMEgoPo Classic Theater offers a rich portrait of connection through art in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:25PMThe Arden Theatre Company’s long-delayed staging of A Streetcar Named Desire lacks realism and magic. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:26PMChrystal E. Williams made her PCMS recital debut with an intriguing but uneven program. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:58AMIn What the Constitution Means to Me, playwright Heidi Schreck examines the personal and political intersections of our country’s laws. Cameron Kelsall reviews an engagement of the nationa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMIn her first concerts as principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann balances repertory warhorses and new music with fresh ideas and attention to detail. Came…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:53PMThe Garbologists, a world premiere from Philadelphia Theatre Company, searches for deep meaning in a dirty job but offers a fairly thin character study instead. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:07PMFast-rising conductor Rafael Payare made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut with a program featuring a world-premiere Clarinet Concerto that highlighted the virtuosity of Ricardo Morales. Came…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:32PMIn Azuka Theatre’s Young Money, two women from different walks of life learn how much they have in common during a chaotic event. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:54PMOn November 5, Philadelphia audiences had two chances to discover Davóne Tines, recently named Vocalist of the Year by Musical America. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:10AMWith the charming, edgy family comedy Extreme Home Makeover, Theatre Exile finally returns to its own South Philly home. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:41PM"There is a value to...approach[ing] unfettered capitalism with a critical eye," writes our critic, but Stefano Massini's play (as adapted by Ben Power) doesn't keep its gaze trained where i…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:30PMLantern Theater Company’s chilling adaptation of Camus’s The Plague, a US premiere, holds an uncomfortable theatrical mirror to our own pandemic reality. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:55PMThe Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia returned to live performance with an ambitious program anchored by Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, but the results were somewhat variable. Cameron Kelsal…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:58AMIn its first performance before a paying audience at Verizon Hall since March 2020, the Philadelphia Orchestra picked up right where it left off, with a stirring interpretation of Beethoven�…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:35PMEgoPo Classic Theater launches its season with Alice: not your child’s wonderland, but this Lewis Carroll adaptation doesn’t go far enough down the rabbit hole. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:32PMAlcina REVAMPED, a cheeky, queer spin on Handel from the up-and-coming Alter Ego Chamber Opera, embraces hybridity in form and delivery this Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:46PMIn telling the story of a small life that nonetheless contains big emotions, Fringe Festival entry The Holy Ground captures what Irish Heritage Theatre does best. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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