487 stories by "Cameron Kelsall"
[Note: This review contains potential plot spoilers. You have been warned. -CK] Photo: Joan Marcus Roundabout is starting its Broadway season with an all-star revival of Tom Stoppard's The R…
The acclaimed, awarded Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is currently benefitting from addition by subtraction. Neil Patrick Harris is gone, and he's understandably taken some…
The new Broadway revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's You Can't Take It With You is spectacularly bad. This, perhaps, shouldn't be surprising. New York theatre no longer specializes …
Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow In 2014, a play written in 1996 and set in 1982 is making its Broadway debut. Still with me? The play is This is Our Youth, the first major work by Kenneth Lon…
Hi, everyone! I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. Or, depending on your history with this blog, re-introduce myself. I'm Cameron Kelsall, and I'm the new (old) writer for Show Sho…
When I first heard the commotion regarding the new Broadway adaptation of Porgy & Bess--directed by Diane Paulus, with a new book by Suzan-Lori Parks and musical adaptations by Deirdre Murra…
photo: Broadway.comThe criminally underrated musical adaptation of Sister Act (by Alan Menken and Douglas Carter Beane, at the Broadway Theatre) is notable for many reasons, including a brea…
Over the next few weeks, the ShowShowdown team will be providing our opinions on a variety of theatre-related questions that often come up. These are questions that interest us, fascinate us…
Having actors direct is always a tricky prospect. It's complicated even further when the actor who is directing is also playing a leading role in the same production. That's the main problem…
As a playwright, Jez Butterworth seems to be keenly interested in the implied. The words that he puts in his characters' mouths are often meant to signify something that's three steps remove…
I saw Lynn Nottage's new play this afternoon--ironically, two years to the day after I first saw her Pulitzer-Prize winning Ruined. In those two years, rarely a day has passed when I haven't…
photo: T. Charles EricksonNo one can fault John Guare for being ambitious. His play A Free Man of Color, which has been in gestation for over twenty years, represents not only two decades of…
