Criticism

Playing in the Rafters: CK Reviews the Philadelphia Orchestra’s La Boheme (for Parterre Box)

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.

There is lots to hear and see in this Tommy, but little to feel.

Jason Robert Brown’s new musical falls for its own con man.