Awaiting Faith: Myths and Hymns, Chapter IV from MasterVoices (for Parterre Box)
The fourth and final chapter of MYTHS AND HYMNS feel deeply connected to our current moment.
Ladies of Spain: The Met’s Final 2020-21 Streaming Program (for Parterre Box)
These streamed recitals, warts and all, have allowed us to see performers let their hair down.
Myth Me Blind: DF on Adam Guettel’s Myths and Hymns by MasterVoices (for Parterre Box)
MasterVoices’ imaginative traversal of Adam Guettel’s quirky, charmingly uncategorizable work continues.
REVIEW: Ghost “Story”: West Side Story on Broadway (for Parterre Box)
Thrilling reinvention, or calcified shtick? Our critics disagree…
REVIEW: Photographic Memory: Girl From the North Country (for Parterre Box)
For a show set during the hardscrabble 1930s, few performances suggest downtroddedness.
REVIEW: Unfinished Sympathy: Unknown Soldier at Playwrights Horizons (for Parterre Box)
It’s difficult to discuss Unknown Soldier without considering the impact of legacy.
REVIEW: She Ain’t Down Yet: The Unsinkable Molly Brown at Transport Group (for Parterre Box)
Beth Malone is the Molly Brown of our dreams, say Cameron and David.
REVIEW: Look What Happened to Mabel: Mack and Mabel at Encores (for Parterre Box)
Time heals almost everything, as Jerry Herman’s best score is stylishly resurrected.
REVIEW: The Julius Eastman Revival Reaches the Curtis Institute
The long-neglected composer’s work anchored a concert dedicated to exploring personal identity through music.
REVIEW: The Camera Does the Work in BAM’s Medea
With predictably Eurotrashy design elements, playwright/director Simon Stone reduces Euripides to soap opera.
