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.
Backwards Runs Bohème: DF Reviews Opera Philadelphia’s Production (for Parterre Box)
Sharon’s reordering is the boldest aspect of his production, and for me it’s effective.
Arch Types: DF Reviews Into the Woods at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Cultural Campus (for Parterre Box)
What do you see when you look at Into the Woods? The musical might serve as a theatrical Rorschach test.
Monsters, No-Neck and Otherwise: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof x2 (DF Review for Parterre Box)
Two radically different productions offer fascinatingly contrasting insights into Williams’ great play.
So a Fool Returns to His Philly — Don Pasquale at AVA (for Parterre Box)
Don Pasquale is Jawn Pasquale in this delightful production at the Academy of Vocal Arts.
They Are The Champions: DF Covers AVA’s Giargiari Competition 2022
This is likely the best Giargiari Bel Canto competition year in my experience, evidenced in several important ways.
REVIEW: A Divided Duty: Rossini’s Otello at O22 (for Parterre Box)
In bel canto opera, virtuosic singing IS the drama. Accept that, and O22’s OTELLO pays off thrillingly.
Two Characters in Search of Anagnorisis: DF Reviews for Parterre Box
This superb production of a Tennessee Williams’ rarity illuminates by lightening the playwright’s life and work.
My Blue Evan — DF Reviews Dear Evan Hansen (for Parterre Box)
No roller coaster has generated more stomach-churning highs and lows than the musical Dear Evan Hansen.
Either Less or More: Into the Woods at the Arden Theatre (for Parterre Box)
An elegantly streamlined makes the best case for the show I’ve yet seen.
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