Unfit to Print: CK Reviews Gutenberg! The Musical! With an Assist from DF (for Parterre Box)
How did this slimly plotted show make it to Broadway? Four words: Josh Gad! Andrew Rannells!
Georgia On My Mind: DF Reviews Infinite Life (for Parterre Box)
A beautiful, funny, disquieting study by an artist whose mastery of understatement is nonpareil.
Aging of Aquarius: DF Reviews Hair at Two River Theatre (for Parterre Box)
Wanna feel old? Hair, “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” has its 56th birthday this month.
DF Reviews The Pianist at George Street Playhouse (for Parterre Box)
Despite some stunning stage images, this adaptation of The Pianist remains stubbornly literary and often inert.
In Memory of James
Cameron offers a loving tribute to James Jorden, Parterre Box’s founder and eternal force.
James Jorden 1954-2023
The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box.
Some Unholy Wars — DF Reviews Festival O23 (for Parterre Box)
Unholy Wars is most an opera when it is, with “Lascia ch’io pianga,” actually an opera.
Dogecoin — DF Reviews Simon Boccanegra at Festival O23
In sum: not a perfect Simon Boccanegra—is there such a thing?—but a grand and often great one.
A Madhouse Is Not A Home — DF Reviews 10 Days in Madhouse at Festival O23
In 90 minutes, Rene Orth’s riveting work gives us everything we could want in a new opera.
Getting to Be a Habit with Me: DF & CK Review Days of Wine and Roses (for Parterre Box)
Composer and lyricist Adam Guettel’s return to the theater impresses but divides our critics.
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