DF Reviews Winterreise with Mark Padmore and Kristian Bezuidenhout (Alice Tully Hall)
I’m a great lover of Schubert, and I’ve attended a number of memorable Lieder recitals. Yet I haven’t been to many live performances of […]
I’m a great lover of Schubert, and I’ve attended a number of memorable Lieder recitals. Yet I haven’t been to many live performances of […]
My second Annie Baker play in two days was John, her newest piece, which I saw in its penultimate performance. Six – […]
Last weekend, I finally saw Annie Baker’s The Flick, though I’ve been aware of the play – and the dust-up surrounding it […]
Dialogues des Carmélites was (to me, at least) a surprising choice for Will Crutchfield’s Caramoor Opera. Poulenc’s masterpiece falls outside what the Festival […]
Last Saturday, I finally made it to the Opera Festival at Caramoor, something I’d long wanted to do, but the timing never […]
I missed Fun Home the musical at the Public, but saw the Broadway production a week ago. I’m lucky I went when […]
“Life is what you do while you’re waiting to die / Life is how the time goes by.” I was too young […]
In my innocent youth, puppets were loveable animal figures – Shari Lewis’s Charlie Horse, and the adorably coquettish (and carnivorously named) Lamb […]
By my count, Encores, now in its 22nd year, has produced 65 musicals (not counting some gala concert evenings, and a couple […]
“Can we have an honest conversation about race?” It’s a question I hear with some regularity in my day job in university […]