Criticism

REVIEW: FAVORITE Things — La Favorite at AVA (for Parterre Box)

Seen and heard here, Donizetti’s late work was stronger on vocal power than bel canto nuance.

The electric current that needs to run through Sam Shepard’s great play is curiously low-voltage here.

At 48th and Baltimore, a performance worthy of a Tony, and an enchanting show.

Director Eric Tucker’s production seems like an exercise in “épater la bourgeoisie” smart ass-ness.

Days later, I’m playing over scenes in my mind—loving some, scratching my head over others.

Politics and culture here are ultimately filler, suggesting but not delivering dramatic weight.

Already a byword for spectacular failure, David and Cameron find the movie of CATS even worse than expected.

Judith Ivey offers a performance of raw, unflinching honesty across the story’s increasingly bleak three hours.

This musical is as manicured as the kind of Stepfordian society the material supposedly rails against.

A conceptual misstep frustratingly dilutes and distracts from an often rewarding musical performance.