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

DF Reviews Detroit (Philadelphia Theatre Company, October 2014)

Good things come to those who wait. Slow cooking yields the best flavor. You might want to keep these aphorisms in mind […]

To review or not to review? That was my question as we divided up the schedule for City Paper. In the yes […]

Feminism. Post Feminism. Raunch Feminism. The complex, on-going evolution of the women’s movement – and its effect on living, breathing females – […]

Of the many things I love about the theater, near the top is this – shows almost never turn out to be exactly […]

Growing up in a theatre family – a Jewish theatre family – I accepted on faith that George S. Kaufman and Moss […]

Sometimes – there’s God – so quickly! Sometimes – there isn’t. In the summer of 1974, I saw A Streetcar Named Desire […]

Periodically, I try to spend time rediscovering an artist – composer, lyricist, playwright, performer – who I think I may not have […]

In 1816, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia survived a disastrous premiere to become one of the most beloved works in the repertoire […]

Sometimes, it’s all about the cast. That’s been the story from the start for Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s The […]

Generally, I like my comedies as I like my martinis – very dry. La Bête is… well, not dry. In fact, it’s […]