Friday, February 3, 2023
Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s, now onstage at the Arden Theatre, shows what a sandwich can say about life. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:31PMMonday, January 23, 2023
Clifford Odets’s pro-labor drama remains relevant, despite a clumsily didactic production by Quintessence Theatre Group. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:44PMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Star soloist Daniil Trifonov brought lyricism and weight to Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto in the New Jersey Symphony’s first concert program of 2023. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:55PMFriday, January 6, 2023
Now at the Academy of Music as part of a national tour, Jagged Little Pill retrofits Alanis Morissette’s seminal album to a relentlessly topical contemporary musical. Cameron Kelsall revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:13AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
The Philadelphia Orchestra summoned the majesty of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, while remembering the legacy of a departed friend. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:32PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
Bruce Norris, "a brilliant button-pusher", wades into murky moral water with his latest play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:30PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Playwright and performer Milo Cramer offers an endearing portrait of the modern education system in School Pictures at the Wilma Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:39PMMonday, November 7, 2022
Room to make inner feelings known: (L to R) Makoto Hirano, Matteo Scammell, and Keith Conallen in Theatre Exile’s ‘Wolf Play.’ (Photo by Paola Nogueras.)
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:26AMMonday, October 31, 2022
Sensitive subjects get short shrift in Gidion’s Knot, which opens the season at Curio Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:09PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Inis Nua’s Pop-Up Play in a Pub series returns with new leadership, and the lively American premiere of 10 Dates With Mad Mary. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:40PMMonday, October 24, 2022
The Glass Menagerie is a delicate masterpiece, but falls flat due to misunderstanding in the Arden’s season opener production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:55AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
The dynamic pianist Daniil Trifonov headlined the Philadelphia Orchestra’s musically diverse and satisfying opening weekend concerts. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:21AMMonday, September 19, 2022
Slack pacing and a dire piece of miscasting sink the Lantern’s season-opening production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:14PMMonday, September 12, 2022
With In High Germany and The Parting Glass, a pair of plays by Dermot Bolger, Irish Heritage Theatre explores Ireland’s lost generation and one man’s enduring fealty to soccer. Cameron K…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:28PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium dives into the weird and wonderful world of Tennesse Williams’s The Two-Character Play as part of the Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:38PMMonday, August 22, 2022
After a season of covering the Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall, music critic Cameron Kelsall followed it to Saratoga Springs, New York. Programs spanning Beethoven to Barber and Valer…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PMThursday, August 18, 2022
Once a cultural phenomenon, Dear Evan Hansen now feels manipulative and misguided as its national tour plays Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:33PMMonday, August 15, 2022
Grand Horizons at People’s Light explores the fallout from the end of a long marriage, but Bess Wohl’s boulevard comedy chooses cheap laughs over high stakes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:51PMMonday, June 20, 2022
EgoPo Classic Theater finally concludes its survey of Sam Shepard with his brutal, bitingly funny Curse of the Starving Class. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:47PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Despite a stylish physical production, Quintessence Theatre’s Camille lacks the passion of traditional melodrama and the perspective needed for a contemporary reinvention. Cameron Kelsall …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:14PMThursday, June 9, 2022
The Arden takes another trip Into the Woods, with delightful and poignant results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:03PMThursday, May 26, 2022
Fencing and friendship are equally dangerous sports in Athena, a razor-sharp coming-of-age comedy at Theatre Horizon. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:35PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
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.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 08:00PMMonday, May 2, 2022
The 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 12:45PMMonday, April 25, 2022
Thornton 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.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 12:58PMThursday, March 24, 2022
Lady 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 12:21PMFriday, March 11, 2022
In 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 01:59PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
TJ 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 03:15PMMonday, March 7, 2022
Despite strong performances, Marsha Norman’s ’Night, Mother shows its age in a staging from Isis Productions. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:10PM 
