Criticism

No Light, No Window, Just Broken: DF & CK Review Broadway’s Romeo + Juliet

A terminally hip production and model-pretty cast can’t disguise the work of an interpretively clueless director.

Jez Butterworth’s play wants to both shine a harsh light on nostalgia, and to bask in it.

Opera took center stage on the final weekend of the Philadelphia Orchestra season.

This is the show that this season captured theater cognoscenti like no other.

This superb production by Curtis Opera Theatre would be a credit to any opera company anywhere.

Each successive version pushed the envelope further… and was less effective.

Eleanor Burgess’s insightful, moving play explores how the gospel should be spread.

This production delivers an intriguing mix of conceptual ideas that sometimes scores powerfully.

Director Lila Neeugebauer’s production refashions Chekhov’s play as a Steve Carell movie.

This tale of the trials and tribulations of making great music is brilliantly in tune.