DF Reviews The Flick (Barrow Street Theatre, New York)
Last weekend, I finally saw Annie Baker’s The Flick, though I’ve been aware of the play – and the dust-up surrounding it […]
Opera Review: Dialogues des Carmélites (Caramoor, July 2015)
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 […]
Opera Review: La Favorite at Caramoor (July 2
Last Saturday, I finally made it to the Opera Festival at Caramoor, something I’d long wanted to do, but the timing never […]
Fun Home (Circle in the Square, May 2015)
I missed Fun Home the musical at the Public, but saw the Broadway production a week ago. I’m lucky I went when […]
Zorba (Encores Musicals in Concert, May 2015)
“Life is what you do while you’re waiting to die / Life is how the time goes by.” I was too young […]
Hand to God (Booth Theatre, New York, April 2015)
In my innocent youth, puppets were loveable animal figures – Shari Lewis’s Charlie Horse, and the adorably coquettish (and carnivorously named) Lamb […]
Paint Your Wagon (Encores Musicals in Concert, New York, March 2015)
By my count, Encores, now in its 22nd year, has produced 65 musicals (not counting some gala concert evenings, and a couple […]
DF Reviews Rasheeda Speaking (The New Group at Signature Center, New York, February 2015)
“Can we have an honest conversation about race?” It’s a question I hear with some regularity in my day job in university […]
DF Reviews Lady, Be Good! (Encores, New York, February 2015)
Encores Musicals in Concert opened their current season – the 22nd, if I’m counting correctly – with exactly the kind of show […]
I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard (Atlantic Theater, New York, January 2015)
In Halley Feiffer’s I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, two damaged egos go at it, though (initially, at least) it’s hardly […]
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