Criticism

Summertime for Hitler: DF Reviews Camp Siegfried at Theatre Exile

It sounds like a bad joke, but Beth Wohl’s riveting Camp Siegfried–superbly done by Theatre Exile–is rooted in reality.

In this vulgar world, there is no situation that can’t be limned with a power ballad.

How did this slimly plotted show make it to Broadway? Four words: Josh Gad! Andrew Rannells!

A beautiful, funny, disquieting study by an artist whose mastery of understatement is nonpareil.

If only good intentions were good theater!

Wanna feel old? Hair, “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” has its 56th birthday this month.

Despite some stunning stage images, this adaptation of The Pianist remains stubbornly literary and often inert.

Director Terry Nolen’s second production of this Sondheim work is an intriguingly different take on the piece.

Unholy Wars is most an opera when it is, with “Lascia ch’io pianga,” actually an opera.

In 90 minutes, Rene Orth’s riveting work gives us everything we could want in a new opera.