PARTERRE BOX

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.

This charmless, shrill Dolly did not have me at Hello!

Seen and heard here, Donizetti’s late work was stronger on vocal power than bel canto nuance.

Pretty is its own reward, but it has its limits. This recital showed both.

I’ve heard starrier performances, but none that made a more powerful case for this masterwork.

Already a byword for spectacular failure, David and Cameron find the movie of CATS even worse than expected.

Judith Ivey offers a performance of raw, unflinching honesty across the story’s increasingly bleak three hours.

This musical is as manicured as the kind of Stepfordian society the material supposedly rails against.

A conceptual misstep frustratingly dilutes and distracts from an often rewarding musical performance.

It’s not difficult to make an audience weep. But artists have a responsibility to not overuse that power.