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

DF on Record Collecting, Comparative Listening, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

Of my many changing identities (child, adult, student, working man) the one that’s lasted longest – and may be the deepest in […]

I really want to love director Todd Haynes, whose interests and sensibilities are so much like mine that he must be my […]

Ticket arts writers weigh in on the most important local arts moments of 2015.

Radio Times Program Guests: Beatrice Jona Affron, David Fox This time of year, we are inundated with songs from the unofficial Christmas […]

Michael Ogborn’s musical is at its best when evoking the quirks and follies of our home city, especially the local accent.

Hir, Taylor Mac’s electrifying, take-no-prisoners play, struck me like a bolt of lightening – all the more because only hours before, I’d […]

Who says you can’t go home again? Pig Iron Theatre is now 20 years old. In that time, the locally based company […]

Scholars of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler will continue to debate why the protagonist (that’s Hedda, of course) is so profoundly unhappy. But there’s […]

Cabaret, perhaps our most intimate live art form, gets a new series – and a new venue – courtesy of the Arden Theatre Company.

If you go to Steve at Signature Center, by all means, get there early. There’s a captivating preshow concert of musical theatre […]