REVIEW: Everybody Loves to Break a Bough: The Cradle Will Rock at Classic Stage Company (for Parterre Box)
At Classic Stage, this pallid imitation of Brecht & Weill meets a director with the same aesthetic.
REVIEW: Winged Defeat: I Married An Angel at Encores (for Parterre Box)
Rodgers and Hart’s 1938 dance musical proves impossible to resuscitate.
REVIEW: One More Kiss: Kiss Me Kate at Roundabout (for Parterre Box)
Scott Ellis’s busy production puts Porter’s sublime musical between a rock and a hard place.
REVIEW: Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met (for Opéra Magazine)
Anna Netrebko and Anita Rachvelishvili shine especially bright in this worthy revival.
REVIEW: Spring is Here: The Day Before Spring at Musicals in Mufti (for Parterre Box)
Lerner and Loewe’s “lost” musical is a wonderful oddity that should be better known.
REVIEW: Close Call: Call Me Madam at Encores! (for Parterre Box)
Seen here, an old fashioned but endearing musical becomes a Trumpian fantasia.
Notes on The Niceties at McCarter Theatre Center
Eleanor Burgess’s thought-provoking, intelligent play was a balm to my wounded soul.
REVIEW: The Ferryman, and Contemporary Theater’s Endangered Pleasures
Jez Butterworth’s epochal play provokes feelings of exhilaration and mourning.
REVIEW: Network Emerges as a Study of Male Hysteria
Bryan Cranston’s brilliant performance aside, this adaptation proves even more problematic than the original film.
REVIEW: Wild Goose Dreams at the New York Public Theater
This noisy but empty show is more like a Wild Goose Chase.
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