Thursday, March 21, 2024
A new musical adaptation of the weepy Nicholas Sparks novel leaves our critic with dry eyes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Curtis Opera Theatre inventively pairs two works from the 20th century that consider the struggles of women in society: Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brech…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:06PMThursday, March 14, 2024
Charles Busch returns with a new play that gets lost in its own point of view. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Inis Nua’s Once Upon a Bridge dramatizes a random act of violence with empathy and suspense. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMMonday, February 12, 2024
The line between truth and memory blurs in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, given a riveting revival by Lantern Theater Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:23PMMonday, February 5, 2024
The Flatlanders, a new play by Bruce Graham from 1812 Productions, is an unfunny throwback to the heyday of boulevard comedy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:27PMPlaywright Sasha Denisova channels the strength and resilience of her Ukrainian mother in My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion, on stage at the Wilma Theater in a co-production with DC’s Wo…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:15AMMonday, January 22, 2024
The music of Béla Bartók speaks better than its pretentious interlocutors in Bartók’s Monster, a collaboration of Sebastienne Mundheim and the Pig Iron School, inspired by Penn lecturer…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PMMonday, January 15, 2024
Despite its weighty title, Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God at Theatre Exile considers questions of humanity and friendship, and it's among the first must-see shows of th…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:15PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
The music recording label opens a global celebration of 125 years, and the only soirée of its kind happening in the US is right on Broad Street. Cameron Kelsall previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:06PMMonday, November 6, 2023
Selling Kabul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist at InterAct Theatre Company, wrestles with the human cost of occupation and war. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:20PMThe national tour of Wicked returns to Philadelphia for the first time in six years. How’s it holding up? Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:53AMMonday, October 30, 2023
EgoPo Classic Theater opens a season of international perspectives with Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs, co-produced by South Africa’s Abrahamse and Meyer Productions. Cameron Kelsall re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:17PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
Lyric Fest celebrated the centennial of composer Ned Rorem with a rare complete performance of Evidence of Things Not Seen. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:25PMFriday, September 29, 2023
The Arden Theatre Company considers Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins through a chilling contemporary lens. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PMThursday, September 21, 2023
Directorial bells and whistles impede the socialist message of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara at Quintessence Theatre Group. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMTuesday, September 12, 2023
The fruit juice flies in Citrus Andronicus, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s creative retelling of the Shakespearean revenge tragedy in this year’s Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:57AMThursday, September 7, 2023
One woman’s quest to score a ticket to her favorite band’s farewell show takes on moving dimensions in They’ve All Gone And We’ll Go Too in this year’s Fringe. Cameron Kelsall revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:07PMMonday, August 14, 2023
A highly conceptualized production of True West at People’s Light offers striking visuals but scant drama. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PMThursday, July 27, 2023
Politically charged yet emotionally joyous, a 1971 musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona knocks it out of Clark Park. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:17AMMonday, July 24, 2023
There's little mirth to be found in Sandy Rustin's new comedy in the manner of an old style. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Philadelphia-based author James Whipple Miller offers a valuable portrait of the legendary composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, told largely through letters to her longtime friend Ruth Ro…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:33PMThursday, June 29, 2023
A Jewish man walks into a meeting of white supremacists in Alex Edelman's funny and thoughtful one-man show. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:44AMThursday, June 22, 2023
Onstage at People’s Light, Boo Killebrew’s Lettie charts one woman’s bumpy road to re-entry after incarceration. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:19PMMonday, June 12, 2023
Playwright Nilo Cruz revisits Two Sisters and a Piano, a tale of passion and oppression in early-nineties Havana, in a stagnant production at Two River Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:10PMFriday, June 2, 2023
At the Arden, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee lingers on cheap jokes at the expense of adolescent self-discovery. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PMFriday, May 26, 2023
Lantern Theater Company offers a delightfully comic and effortlessly romantic new production of Twelfth Night to close its season. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:37AMTuesday, May 16, 2023
Rajiv Joseph dribbles a new play about the friendship between two straight men and their love of basketball. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Azuka Theatre presents the world premiere of Christine Evans’s Galilee, which brings a personal dimension to the threat of climate change. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:45PMCurtis Opera Theatre closes its season with an ambitious but underwhelming Handel rarity. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:06AMMonday, May 1, 2023
Opera Philadelphia’s new production of La Bohème reverses the order of the classic opera, beginning with tragedy and progressing toward love. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:15PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
In the case of David Auburn's new play, you end up with something far less than the sum of its considerable parts. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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A pair of strangers learn to be brothers in Hymn, a tender two-hander from Inis Nua Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:56AMThursday, April 6, 2023
The national tour of Into the Woods loses the thread of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairy-tale parable. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:16PMFriday, March 31, 2023
After performances running from Philly to the UK and back, Jenna Kuerzi retires her irreverent and enlightening solo show Johnny Depp: A Retrospective on Late-Stage Capitalism. Cameron Kelsa…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:53PMTuesday, March 28, 2023
The Crossing joined with PRISM Quartet to present the world premiere of Martin Bresnick’s austere, literary Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:32AMThursday, March 23, 2023
Michael Arden directs an "essential" revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's musical that "reaches its summit in its silences." Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:54AMFriday, March 10, 2023
Brian Friel tackles the Russian master in The Bear and Afterplay, the latest double bill from Irish Heritage Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:18PMMonday, March 6, 2023
The Brentano Quartet used their annual recital with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society to establish Antonin Dvořák as an American master. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:25PMSunday, March 5, 2023
Too many branches keep the trunk obscured in Agnes Borinsky's new play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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