Unchanged for Good: DF Considers the National Tour of Wicked (for Parterre Box)
No show should last for 20 years.
Mälkki Way: CK Reviews Ligeti, Mussorgsky & More at the New York Philharmonic (for Parterre Box)
A fascinatingly varied program captured both intellectual rigor and palpable joy in music-making.
Aging of Aquarius: DF Reviews Hair at Two River Theatre (for Parterre Box)
Wanna feel old? Hair, “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” has its 56th birthday this month.
In Memory of James
Cameron offers a loving tribute to James Jorden, Parterre Box’s founder and eternal force.
James Jorden 1954-2023
The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box.
Some Unholy Wars — DF Reviews Festival O23 (for Parterre Box)
Unholy Wars is most an opera when it is, with “Lascia ch’io pianga,” actually an opera.
Dogecoin — DF Reviews Simon Boccanegra at Festival O23
In sum: not a perfect Simon Boccanegra—is there such a thing?—but a grand and often great one.
A Madhouse Is Not A Home — DF Reviews 10 Days in Madhouse at Festival O23
In 90 minutes, Rene Orth’s riveting work gives us everything we could want in a new opera.
Let’s Get Serious — CK Reviews Renee Fleming and Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall (for Parterre Box)
The soprano arrived at Carnegie Hall on May 31 with something to prove.
Die Frist Ist Glum — CK Reviews Der Fliegende Hollander at the Met (for Parterre Box)
Francois Girard’s Holländer sits on the Met’s cavernous stage as a dull gray mass.
reclining standards 