Joust In Time: Man of La Mancha at Saratoga Opera (for Parterre Box)
Zachary James delivers a thoughtfully crafted, blessedly restrained Quixote/Cervantes.
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Cameron Kelsall
Her Kind of Woman: New Biography Explores Jane Russell’s Life and Times (for Parterre Box)
“Mean…Moody…Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend” chronicles the Golden Age starlet’s troubled life and idiosyncratic career.
REVIEW: EgoPo’s Nocturne Brings Theater to the Parking Lot
Adam Rapp’s elliptical meditation on grief and guilt ushers in a new era of in-person performances in Philadelphia.
Wild Things Leave Skins Behind Them: Our Critics Discuss The Fugitive Kind (for Parterre Box)
This version of Orpheus Descending takes off like a rocket.
Sparkle, Lisette, Sparkle!: Opera Philadelphia’s Archival Production of La Traviata (for Parterre Box)
God is in the details, as they say—and in passage after passage, Oropesa realized those details as few singers have.
What the ‘Cat’ Dragged In (for Parterre Box)
Cameron and David begin their exploration of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with a British television adaptation starring Laurence Olivier and Natalie Wood.
‘Glass’ Dismissed: Concluding Our Discussion of The Glass Menagerie (for Parterre Box)
Cameron and David conclude their consideration of THE GLASS MENAGERIE.
Sexy and sinewy: Dame Judi Dench in The Cherry Orchard (for Parterre Box)
Having just watched and written about the famous Actors Studio Three Sisters, it also feels right to turn now to The Cherry Orchard—Chekhov’s final play—in a production from the BBC.
Sisters were doing it for themselves (for Parterre Box)
What a filmed Three Sisters from 1966 can tell us about Method acting, Chekhov and more.
Supporting Our Artistic Community
The spread of COVID-19 will disproportionately impact artists and performing arts institutions. We have compiled information on cancellations and ways to help.
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