Playwright Will Arbery admirably endeavors to craft a nuanced portrait of conservative Catholicism, but the result is a facile exploration of religious and political tribalism. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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9 September 2019
Reviews • NYC Regional
Review: Superterranean at Philly Fringe
2300 Arena ⋄ 5th-15th September 2019
By Cameron Kelsall
An avant-garde choose your own adventure from Pig Iron and Mimi Lien ends up curiously empty. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
13 August 2019
Reviews • NYC Regional
Review: What We May Be at Berkshire Theatre Group
Berkshire Theatre Group ⋄ August 8-August 31
By Cameron Kelsall
Cameron Kelsall is not complaining about Kathleen Clark’s sweet-natured love letter to the ethos of community theater, featuring a star turn by Penny Fuller.
11 August 2019
Reviews • NYC Regional
Review: Before the Meeting at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival ⋄ August 7 – 18
By Cameron Kelsall
Adam Bock, once again, finds the extraordinary within the ordinary in a world premiere at Williamstown. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
10 August 2019
Reviews • NYC Regional
Review: Ghosts at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival ⋄ July 31 – August 18
By Cameron Kelsall
Cameron Kelsall finds this Ibsen revival at Williamstown brings stale melodrama rather than shocking moral turpitude.
25 July 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space
Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ June 26-August 17
By Cameron Kelsall
Halley Feiffer misses the point of the original play with her Millennial refashioning of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters.” Cameron Kelsall reviews.
2 July 2019
Reviews • NYC Regional
Review: A Human Being, of a Sort at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival ⋄ 27th June – 7th July 2019
By Cameron Kelsall
André Braugher provokes genuine pathos from limited material. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
1 July 2019
Reviews • NYC Regional
Review: A Raisin in the Sun at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival ⋄ 26th June - 13th July 2019
By Cameron Kelsall
Director Robert O’Hara lets Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play breathe. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
4 June 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Nomad Motel at Atlantic Theater Stage 2
Atlantic Stage 2 ⋄ May 22-June 23
By Cameron Kelsall
Cameron Kelsall finds nothing authentic in Carla Ching’s “compendium of clichés.”
23 April 2019
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Burn This at Hudson Theatre
Hudson Theatre ⋄ 15th March – 14th July 2019
By Cameron Kelsall
There is no spark in this shallow revival of the calcified Lanford Wilson play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.