488 stories by "Cameron Kelsall"
Curio Theatre Company's 'I Heart Alice Heart I' explores a decades-long partnership with humor and tenderness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
EgoPo Classic Theater's production of 'Fool For Love' lacks the charged current that pulls the doomed central couple together, even as it guarantees their mutual destruction. Cameron Kelsall…
Once again, the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium explores meaning, truth, language, and absurdity in 'The Bald Soprano'. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The acclaimed classical troupe Bedlam brings a streamlined and confounding adaptation of 'King Lear' to Bristol Riverside Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Verdi's operatic 'Requiem' gets top-drawer treatment from the orchestra, chorus, and soloists of Opera Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Piano superstar Daniil Trifonov offered revelatory readings of two Beethoven concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra, played alongside underheard works by two women composers. Cameron Kels…
'Midwives,' an adaptation of Chris Bohjalian's best-selling novel, gets a rocky birth onstage at George Street Playhouse. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'My General Tubman,' a skillful playwriting debut at the Arden from Philadelphia author Lorene Cary, binds the legacy of Harriet Tubman to the current moment in history. Cameron Kelsall revi…
Two River Theater's production of 'Twelfth Night' is visually appealing but tonally unbalanced. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'Goodnight Nobody,' a promising and well-produced world premiere at McCarter Theatre Center, still needs to figure out what kind of play it wants to be. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The Philly Pops paid loving tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, in an evening that highlighted his strengths and weaknesses as a composer. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Alban Berg's 'Wozzeck' too often favors visual flourish over storytelling, but music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a revelatory reading of …
An evening of cantatas, presented by Gamut Bach Ensemble and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, put critic Cameron Kelsall in a Christmas mood.
A confounding narrative framework derails Joyce DiDonato's 'Winterreise' at Princeton University. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Simpatico Theatre's production of 'Natural Shocks,' a slim but effective play by Lauren Gunderson, benefits from a brilliant performance by Amanda Schoonover. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Renée Taylor knows her way around a joke. Now 86, the Bronx-born comedienne has spent the better part of seven decades making the public laugh as a writer, actress and personality.
A high musical standard made up for dramaturgical cloudiness in Curtis Opera Theatre's 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia'. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'An Iliad,' a didactic refashioning of Homer's epic poem, receives a flat staging at the Arden's Horan Studio Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'Love in Hate Nation,' a joyously original riff on bad-girl movie tropes, continues the copacetic relationship of composer Joe Iconis and Two River Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Mozart's 'Le Nozze di Figaro' may be a bread-and-butter opera, but that's no excuse for AVA's stale staging. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Azuka Theatre's production of Dominique Morriseau's 'Sunset Baby' benefits from a sensational central performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Curio Theatre Company's production of 'The Mystery of Irma Vep' isn't a total drag, but it often misses the comic mark. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'Woman and Scarecrow,' Marina Carr's enthralling exploration of the end of life, receives a haunting and stunningly acted local premiere from Irish Heritage Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
'Next to Normal' remains a popular property on the regional-theater circuit, and is currently on stage at Bristol Riverside Theatre. But are the musical's views on psychiatry and pharmacolog…
'Tiny Beautiful Things,' at the Arden Theatre Company, explores the myriad reasons that people seek advice. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
