Street Scene: DF and CK review Leopoldstadt (for Parterre Box)
Stuffed with Stoppardian cleverness, there’s far too much in LEOPOLDSTADT to register with specificity.
It’s Going to Cost You: CK Reviews The Cost of Living (for Parterre Box)
Martyna Majok Pulitzer Prize-winning play overflows with complexity. It begins with the title.
Talking About a Revolution: CK Reviews I’m Revolting at Atlantic Theatre Company
In this moving, unsettling work, playwright Gracie Gardner gives the experience of illness pitched to true life.
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.
REVIEW: As The Raven Flies — Festival O22 Begins (for Parterre Box)
In THE RAVEN, Festival O’s characteristic imagination and audacity remain front and center.
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.
Mouths To Be Kissed: CK Reviews A Little Night Music at Barrington Stage Company (for Parterre Box)
Summer smiles in the Berkshires with a charming revival of this Sondheim favorite.
Silent Treatment: DF reviews Strauss’s Schweigsame Frau at Bard (for Parterre Box)
A lovingly restored version of Strauss’s opera reveals that sometimes cuts are for the best.
‘Big D’ Energy: David and Cameron Review Most Happy at Williamstown and Sound of Music at Glimmerglass
Two celebrated 1950s musicals get strikingly dissimilar festival productions this summer.
