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Getting to Be a Habit with Me: DF & CK Review Days of Wine and Roses (for Parterre Box)

4 days ago

Composer and lyricist Adam Guettel’s return to the theater impresses but divides our critics.

Let’s Get Serious — CK Reviews Renee Fleming and Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall (for Parterre Box)

4 days ago

The soprano arrived at Carnegie Hall on May 31 with something to prove.

Die Frist Ist Glum — CK Reviews Der Fliegende Hollander at the Met (for Parterre Box)

4 days ago

Francois Girard’s Holländer sits on the Met’s cavernous stage as a dull gray mass.

Backwards Runs Bohème: DF Reviews Opera Philadelphia’s Production (for Parterre Box)

1 month ago

Sharon’s reordering is the boldest aspect of his production, and for me it’s effective.

Pianist Envy: CK Reviews Good Night, Oscar on Broadway (for Parterre Box)

1 month ago

Doug Wright’s new biographical dramadey, seems at once intimately familiar with and entirely alien to its subject.

Artists With Enough “Oomph”?: DF Reviews the Met Laffont Competition Grand Finals (for Parterre Box)

2 months ago

At all of these vocal contests, I ask myself the same question: What are the judges looking for?

Arch Types: DF Reviews Into the Woods at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Cultural Campus (for Parterre Box)

2 months ago

What do you see when you look at Into the Woods? The musical might serve as a theatrical Rorschach test.

They Trod a Path That Many Have Trod: DF & CK Review Sweeney Todd on Broadway

2 months ago

This is by any measure a triumphant show, evidence that Broadway can still be American theater’s gold standard.

Did I Mention There’s a Mime? DF Reviews Dear World at Encores! (for Parterre Box)

3 months ago

Wild adulation for Donna Murphy could not disguise that Dear World doesn’t work in any sense.

Monsters, No-Neck and Otherwise: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof x2 (DF Review for Parterre Box)

March 9, 2023

Two radically different productions offer fascinatingly contrasting insights into Williams’ great play.

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