Criticism

DF Summer TV Catch-Up / Loathing The Borgias

Summer is TV catch-up time at our house, and how low we’ll go in choosing shows is a measure of how hopelessly […]

Hooray for homecomings! In this case, we have two. Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a sweet-sad comic riff […]

They don’t call it “star power” for nothing! The musical Herringbone is a worthy, intriguing show that takes too many detours, and […]

Last week, a Talk of the Town column in The New Yorker reported on a masterclass given by Stephen Sondheim, during which […]

If you’re an opera fan (and perhaps even if you’re not), you may be aware of a dust-up that occurred in May, […]

I heard Frederica Von Stade 40 years ago, and it was love at first sound. This was the summer following my high […]

Still in the grip of post-Tony fog, I’ll offer a few grumpy observations. Of course, there’s more to say, but we’ll leave […]

Last weekend, I bumped into my friend Toby Zinman, theater critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, on the street in New York. Both […]

So how was the play? I’ll get to that, I promise. But first, let me take a moment to celebrate the exceptional […]

Nothing gladdens my heart like seeing a new theater company grow and prosper. These are tough times for the arts, and the […]