reclining standards

REVIEW: Brimming with Life: Opera Philadelphia’s Verdi Requiem (for Parterre Box)

I’ve heard starrier performances, but none that made a more powerful case for this masterwork.

With predictably Eurotrashy design elements, playwright/director Simon Stone reduces Euripides to soap opera.

Days later, I’m playing over scenes in my mind—loving some, scratching my head over others.

Cameron and David consider Lucy Kirkwood’s taut drama that considers how society reacts to a fallout of its own making.

Politics and culture here are ultimately filler, suggesting but not delivering dramatic weight.

Already a byword for spectacular failure, David and Cameron find the movie of CATS even worse than expected.

Judith Ivey offers a performance of raw, unflinching honesty across the story’s increasingly bleak three hours.

This musical is as manicured as the kind of Stepfordian society the material supposedly rails against.

A conceptual misstep frustratingly dilutes and distracts from an often rewarding musical performance.

Don’t miss this superb show, which returns for a run this December!