486 stories by "Cameron Kelsall"
Playwright and performer Milo Cramer offers an endearing portrait of the modern education system in School Pictures at the Wilma Theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Room to make inner feelings known: (L to R) Makoto Hirano, Matteo Scammell, and Keith Conallen in Theatre Exile's 'Wolf Play.' (Photo by Paola Nogueras.)
Sensitive subjects get short shrift in Gidion's Knot, which opens the season at Curio Theatre Company. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Inis Nua's Pop-Up Play in a Pub series returns with new leadership, and the lively American premiere of 10 Dates With Mad Mary. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The Glass Menagerie is a delicate masterpiece, but falls flat due to misunderstanding in the Arden's season opener production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The dynamic pianist Daniil Trifonov headlined the Philadelphia Orchestra's musically diverse and satisfying opening weekend concerts. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Slack pacing and a dire piece of miscasting sink the Lantern's season-opening production of Tom Stoppard's Travesties. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
With In High Germany and The Parting Glass, a pair of plays by Dermot Bolger, Irish Heritage Theatre explores Ireland's lost generation and one man's enduring fealty to soccer. Cameron Kelsa…
Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium dives into the weird and wonderful world of Tennesse Williams's The Two-Character Play as part of the Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
After a season of covering the Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall, music critic Cameron Kelsall followed it to Saratoga Springs, New York. Programs spanning Beethoven to Barber and Valer…
Once a cultural phenomenon, Dear Evan Hansen now feels manipulative and misguided as its national tour plays Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Grand Horizons at People's Light explores the fallout from the end of a long marriage, but Bess Wohl's boulevard comedy chooses cheap laughs over high stakes. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
EgoPo Classic Theater finally concludes its survey of Sam Shepard with his brutal, bitingly funny Curse of the Starving Class. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Despite a stylish physical production, Quintessence Theatre's Camille lacks the passion of traditional melodrama and the perspective needed for a contemporary reinvention. Cameron Kelsall re…
The Arden takes another trip Into the Woods, with delightful and poignant results. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Fencing and friendship are equally dangerous sports in Athena, a razor-sharp coming-of-age comedy at Theatre Horizon. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Ana Nogueira pens "a love letter to the geeks, queerdos, and obsessives" and their complicated relationship with musical theatre and each other. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra's string players took the spotlight in a performance anchored by Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, with guest soloist Gil Shaham. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Thornton Wilder's ever-relevant play returns in a powerful, but inconsistent revival at Lincoln Center. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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In Where We Belong, a compelling but uneven solo work at Philadelphia Theatre Company, Madeline Sayet explores what it means to study Shakespeare from an Indigenous perspective. Cameron Kels…
The Met premieres another new production of Donizetti's opera, this time in the hands of Australian auteur Simon Stone. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at Curio Theatre offers a complex, entertaining portrait of Billie Holiday's final Philadelphia performance. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
In Backing Track, a world premiere at the Arden, R. Eric Thomas offers a warm, witty portrait of a multigenerational Black queer family. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever, a world premiere from James Ijames at Theatre Horizon, asks its characters, and its audience, to wrestle with the complicated concept of inheritance. Cameron Kelsall r…
Despite strong performances, Marsha Norman's 'Night, Mother shows its age in a staging from Isis Productions. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
