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University administrator and teacher by day, theater and arts critic by night.

REVIEW: Shades of Gray – Sweet Smell of Success by MasterVoices (for Parterre Box)

Sweet Smell of Success was strongly cast here, but the merits of this noir musical are hardly black or white.

Rossini’s relative rarity gets a splashy if not wholly coherent production at Opera Philadelphia.

The show has an adoring following, but it’s less edgy than its forty-year-old source material.

I’d never imagined spending 10 hours with TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, but such is the magic of this event.

A musically strong, theatrically questionable production closes the Opera Philadelphia season.

It’s not BOMBSHELL … It’s just a bomb.

Morley and Moore in a mixed program, brilliantly conceived and superbly performed.

Emma Griffin’s “Go big or go home” production scores a win for Bernstein’s musical/operetta.

The new musical starring Idina Menzel, ostensibly a paean to a back-to-nature life, could hardly feel more manufactured and synthetic.

Rebecca Frecknall’s gripping staging makes new a play many of us feel we know inside out.