Criticism

Short Take: DF Looks at Sondheim’s Assassins at the Arden Theatre

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.

Composer and lyricist Adam Guettel’s return to the theater impresses but divides our critics.

Francois Girard’s Holländer sits on the Met’s cavernous stage as a dull gray mass.

Sharon’s reordering is the boldest aspect of his production, and for me it’s effective.

Doug Wright’s new biographical dramadey, seems at once intimately familiar with and entirely alien to its subject.

At all of these vocal contests, I ask myself the same question: What are the judges looking for?

What do you see when you look at Into the Woods? The musical might serve as a theatrical Rorschach test.

This is by any measure a triumphant show, evidence that Broadway can still be American theater’s gold standard.