Monday, September 3, 2018
Unfortunately (considering the timing), Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical 'Biloxi Blues,' at Act II Playhouse, hasn't aged well. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2018
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's 'Blithe Spirit' never settles for easy laughs. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:39PM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2018
Jen Silverman's 'Dangerous House,' at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, chronicles the perilous lives of LGBTQ people in supposedly progressive contemporary South Africa. C…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:39PM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2018
'Woody Sez,' in a return performance at People's Light, offers music for the moment. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey cranks up the carnage in 'Titus Andronicus' without shying away from the play's problematic treatment of women and race. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:57PM[SHARE]Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's Extreme Shakespeare series presents an original-practices production of 'All's Well That Ends Well,' with confounding results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2018
Lillian Hellman's 'The Children's Hour' remains powerful and thought-provoking, despite an uneven production from Princeton Summer Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2018
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's 'King Richard II' dumbs down one of the Bard's most complicated monarchs. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
'On the Exhale,' a gun drama from Theater with a View, shoots blanks. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2018
A stage adaptation of 'Shakespeare in Love,' at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, coasts on a healthy dose of charm. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2018
Hedgerow Theatre Company's new adaptation of 'His Girl Friday' screws up screwball comedy. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2018
SoLow Fest entries 'Potts' and 'Table on Table on Table' offer new glosses on familiar stories. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
'Ragtime,' based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, remains strikingly relevant at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:42PM[SHARE]Disney's 'Aladdin,' presented by the Kimmel Center's Broadway Philadelphia, fails to cast a magic spell. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2018
Philadelphia Artists' Collective resurrects the melodrama with 'Maria Marten, or, The Murder in the Red Barn.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:00PM[SHARE]Taylor Mac's 'A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Part II' approaches perfect unity of music, text, and performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
600 Highwaymen's 'The Fever,' presented locally by PIFA, tests the limits of audience interaction. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Magical and maddening, Taylor Mac's '24-Decade History of Popular Music, Part I' comes to Philadelphia courtesy of PIFA. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2018
'The Last Five Years,' at Hammonton, New Jersey's Eagle Theatre, offers problematic scenes from a problematic marriage. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Act II Playhouse's scaled down 'Camelot' reveals the flaws of this Golden Age musical. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2018
'Mamma Mia!' at Walnut Street Theatre may have you dancing in the aisles " or bolting for the exit. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:06PM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2018
'Turning Off the Morning News,' premiering at McCarter Theatre Center, returns playwright Christopher Durang to his angry, absurdist roots. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:53PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
A musicalization of Marivaux's 'The Triumph of Love,' at Bristol Riverside Theatre, fails to balance the source play's humor and pathos. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:53PM[SHARE]Theatre Horizon offers a whimsical, wistful, and refreshingly feminist take on the popular 'Peter and the Starcatcher.' Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
'Sing the Body Electric' highlights playwright Michael Hollinger's knack for crafting naturalistic dialogue and sympathetic characters, but the whole often feels less than the sum of its par…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:29PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2018
'Tell Me on a Sunday,' at Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, trades in gender stereotypes and clunky storytelling. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:07PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
Quintessence Theatre Group premieres a compelling adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'The Wild Duck'. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
Irish Heritage Theatre collects five short plays about the Irish women of yesterday and today, and delivers mixed results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:58PM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2018
GoKash OnSTAGE's residency at the Arden presents 'V to X,' exploring the world of for-profit incarceration and the state of black lives behind bars. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2018
'Noises Off,' Michael Frayn's evergreen farce, proves its durability once more at the Walnut Street Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
Regina Taylor's 'Crowns,' at Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center, gives voice to the special relationship between black women and their hats. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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