486 stories by "Cameron Kelsall"
At the Arden, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee lingers on cheap jokes at the expense of adolescent self-discovery. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Lantern Theater Company offers a delightfully comic and effortlessly romantic new production of Twelfth Night to close its season. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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.
Curtis Opera Theatre closes its season with an ambitious but underwhelming Handel rarity. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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.
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.
The national tour of Into the Woods loses the thread of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy-tale parable. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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…
The Crossing joined with PRISM Quartet to present the world premiere of Martin Bresnick's austere, literary Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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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Brian Friel tackles the Russian master in The Bear and Afterplay, the latest double bill from Irish Heritage Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The Brentano Quartet used their annual recital with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society to establish Antonin Dvořák as an American master. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Too many branches keep the trunk obscured in Agnes Borinsky's new play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Big Daddy steals the show in Walnut Street Theatre's new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Philadelphia Theatre Company's Empathitrax tests the limits of love and pharmaceutical intervention. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Anna Ziegler's novelistic new work about writers, their parents, and Katie Holmes playing an actress meanders through tedium. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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The Lifespan of a Fact, now onstage at Lantern Theater, considers the chasm between journalistic integrity and artistic license. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Lynn Nottage's Clyde's, now onstage at the Arden Theatre, shows what a sandwich can say about life. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Clifford Odets's pro-labor drama remains relevant, despite a clumsily didactic production by Quintessence Theatre Group. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Star soloist Daniil Trifonov brought lyricism and weight to Brahms's Second Piano Concerto in the New Jersey Symphony's first concert program of 2023. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Now at the Academy of Music as part of a national tour, Jagged Little Pill retrofits Alanis Morissette's seminal album to a relentlessly topical contemporary musical. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The Philadelphia Orchestra summoned the majesty of Gustav Holst's The Planets, while remembering the legacy of a departed friend. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Bruce Norris, "a brilliant button-pusher", wades into murky moral water with his latest play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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