Theater

A Faint Impression of the Genuine Article: DF & CK on Funny Girl (for Parterre Box)

Can we start by not using Barbra Streisand as a polestar here?

For all of the ingenuity and accomplishment of director Lileana Blain-Cruz and company, something here doesn’t add up.

More than just a revival—it’s a reinvigoration of one of the best works of the last 50 years.

This high-gloss production trades on bland Americana at odds Meredith Willson’s sharply satirical, timeless show.

Clare Barron’s play, which explores women and sexual gratification, could be seen as brave or narcissistic or both.

The best of O’Hara’s Long Day is wrenching, illuminating, and will remain with me for a long time.

Opera Philadelphia returns to the stage with an honorable, if not entirely convincing, mixed program.

Katrina Lenk’s Bobbie channels an assertive female persona, but it doesn’t feel fully realized or convincing.

So many of my memories are not simply about shows I loved—they are experiences that literally shaped my life.

Morning Sun often feels as occluded and distancing as the austere, featureless set on which it’s performed.