Wet Blanket: David and Cameron Review Bedwetter at Atlantic Theater Company (for Parterre Box)
Sarah Silverman’s memoir-musical takes on a traumatic subject with an uneasy mix of crude comedy and serious themes.
I Want Your Rex: DF reviews Oedipus Rex + Lilacs at Opera Philadelphia (for Parterre Box)
Opera Philadelphia returns to the stage with an honorable, if not entirely convincing, mixed program.
Sorry/Ungrateful: DF and CK on Consider the Revised Company on Broadway (for Parterre Box)
Katrina Lenk’s Bobbie channels an assertive female persona, but it doesn’t feel fully realized or convincing.
Telling the World We Are Not Invisible: Our Critics on In the Heights
This film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s beloved musical has come around at exactly the right moment.
Slow Curtain: David and Cameron Discuss Of Human Bondage and The Whales of August
Two films 50 years apart prove that Bette Davis is always—gloriously—Bette Davis.
What the ‘Cat’ Dragged In (for Parterre Box)
Cameron and David begin their exploration of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with a British television adaptation starring Laurence Olivier and Natalie Wood.
‘Glass’ Dismissed: Concluding Our Discussion of The Glass Menagerie (for Parterre Box)
Cameron and David conclude their consideration of THE GLASS MENAGERIE.
Praying for Rain: Thoughts on Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean (for Parterre Box)
Like many artistic homosexuals, I’ve been through an Altman phase, a Cher phase, a Sandy Dennis phase and a Karen Black phase.
DAVID’S LIFE IN RECORDS Part VI: Utterly Bewitching: Leontyne Price (for Parterre Box)
In an ongoing series, David considers the records that helped shape his life.
Sexy and sinewy: Dame Judi Dench in The Cherry Orchard (for Parterre Box)
Having just watched and written about the famous Actors Studio Three Sisters, it also feels right to turn now to The Cherry Orchard—Chekhov’s final play—in a production from the BBC.
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