General Ramblings

New World Charm: CK Reviews the Met Orchestra in Concert at Carnegie Hall (for Parterre Box)

In top form, the Met musicians gave rich voice to each selection.. especially the Dvořák.

Missy Mazzoli’s gorgeous score is the major takeaway here: a dazzling success in every way.

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

Brian Friel’s great play feels new-minted in a production featuring three Philadelphia actors at their very best.

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

The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box.

In sum: not a perfect Simon Boccanegra—is there such a thing?—but a grand and often great one.

Sondra Radvanovsky eschewed the customary recital format, putting her selections in a highly personal context.

In THE RAVEN, Festival O’s characteristic imagination and audacity remain front and center.

Sarah Silverman’s memoir-musical takes on a traumatic subject with an uneasy mix of crude comedy and serious themes.