REVIEW: A Little “Nixon” Goes a Long Way: Nixon in China at the Princeton Festival (for Parterre Box)
Adams, superb at crafting arcs of sound, can’t handle characters or narrative.
Adams, superb at crafting arcs of sound, can’t handle characters or narrative.
Does this legendary production, seen in close-up, retain it’s greatness? Yes… and no.
Even the hit songs in this early Jule Styne musical would recede in a better show.
As a cohesive evening of music drama, this ambitious double bill doesn’t quite add up.
To resurrect this astonishing show at all in a brief time frame is almost miraculous.
A wonderful musical performance, hampered by a misguided production.
The sexiest moment on Broadway this season features a 73-year-old man and a single button.
At Classic Stage, this pallid imitation of Brecht & Weill meets a director with the same aesthetic.
Rodgers and Hart’s 1938 dance musical proves impossible to resuscitate.
Scott Ellis’s busy production puts Porter’s sublime musical between a rock and a hard place.