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.
Short Take: Metaphors Be With Us—DF Reviews Swing State at Audible Theater at Minetta Lane
If only good intentions were good theater!
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.
Short Take: DF Looks at Sondheim’s Assassins at the Arden Theatre
Director Terry Nolen’s second production of this Sondheim work is an intriguingly different take on the piece.
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.
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.
They Trod a Path That Many Have Trod: DF & CK Review Sweeney Todd on Broadway
This is by any measure a triumphant show, evidence that Broadway can still be American theater’s gold standard.
Did I Mention There’s a Mime? DF Reviews Dear World at Encores! (for Parterre Box)
Wild adulation for Donna Murphy could not disguise that Dear World doesn’t work in any sense.
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.
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