Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Organ virtuoso Paul Jacobs returned to the Philadelphia Orchestra with Michael Daugherty's 'Once Upon a Castle,' an exhilarating symphonie concertante written especially for him. Cameron Kel…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:32PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2020
The Academy of Vocal Arts offers a production of Donizetti's 'La Favorite,' in its original French version, where the worthwhile elements outweigh the questionable ones. Cameron Kelsall revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:19PM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2020
'Outside Mullingar,' an Irish romance by John Patrick Shanley, receives a sweet-natured staging at Delaware Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2020
Curio Theatre Company's 'I Heart Alice Heart I' explores a decades-long partnership with humor and tenderness. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:45PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:54PM[SHARE]Once again, the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium explores meaning, truth, language, and absurdity in 'The Bald Soprano'. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:44PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2020
The acclaimed classical troupe Bedlam brings a streamlined and confounding adaptation of 'King Lear' to Bristol Riverside Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:37PM[SHARE]Verdi's operatic 'Requiem' gets top-drawer treatment from the orchestra, chorus, and soloists of Opera Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:14PM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2020
'Midwives,' an adaptation of Chris Bohjalian's best-selling novel, gets a rocky birth onstage at George Street Playhouse. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:35PM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2020
'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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:22PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
Two River Theater's production of 'Twelfth Night' is visually appealing but tonally unbalanced. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:46PM[SHARE]'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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2020
The Philly Pops paid loving tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, in an evening that highlighted his strengths and weaknesses as a composer. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 28, 2019
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 …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2019
An evening of cantatas, presented by Gamut Bach Ensemble and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, put critic Cameron Kelsall in a Christmas mood.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2019
A confounding narrative framework derails Joyce DiDonato's 'Winterreise' at Princeton University. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:32PM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2019
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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2019
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.
SOURCE: recliningstandards.com at 11:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 24, 2019
A high musical standard made up for dramaturgical cloudiness in Curtis Opera Theatre's 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia'. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2019
'An Iliad,' a didactic refashioning of Homer's epic poem, receives a flat staging at the Arden's Horan Studio Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:37PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2019
'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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2019
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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:44PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2019
Azuka Theatre's production of Dominique Morriseau's 'Sunset Baby' benefits from a sensational central performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 5, 2019
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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:40PM[SHARE]'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.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:14PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2019
'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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:25PM[SHARE]'Tiny Beautiful Things,' at the Arden Theatre Company, explores the myriad reasons that people seek advice. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:21PM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2019
Baseball, absentee fathers, and WWII: 'Last Days of Summer,' which opens the season at George Street Playhouse, piles on the clichés. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 27, 2019
EgoPo Classic Theater opens a season devoted to Sam Shepard with an intriguing but tonally unbalanced 'Buried Child.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:43PM[SHARE]Adam Bock's nuanced, moving 'A Small Fire' is the most satisfying production Philadelphia Theatre Company has delivered in years. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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