REVIEW: “Jagged”… with Sophistication — Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill (for Parterre Box)
This musical is as manicured as the kind of Stepfordian society the material supposedly rails against.
REVIEW: Diary of the Dead — Joyce DiDonato’s Winterreise in Princeton (for Parterre Box)
A conceptual misstep frustratingly dilutes and distracts from an often rewarding musical performance.
REPOST: Anthony Lawton’s A Christmas Carol Is This Year’s Holiday Must-See
Don’t miss this superb show, which returns for a run this December!
REVIEW: What Flesh Is Heir To: Natural Shocks at Simpatico Theatre
The great Amanda Schoonover makes the ordinary extraordinary.
REVIEW: Howards, Endless: The Inheritance on Broadway (for Parterre Box)
It’s not difficult to make an audience weep. But artists have a responsibility to not overuse that power.
REVIEW: Music for Moderns — Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Orchestre Métropolitain (for Parterre Box)
They came, saw, and conquered… and I hope they return soon.
REVIEW: Maid Love: Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Curtis Opera (for Parterre Box)
The Berta (mezzo-soprano Emily Damasco) runs away with the show.
REVIEW: Signature’s The Young Man From Atlanta Doesn’t Put a Foote Right
Seen here, this dated piece of earnest but intolerant realism seems almost a parody of itself.
REVIEW: At George Street Playhouse, Renée Taylor Diets and Dishes
After seven decades in show business, the legendary actress and comedienne still knows her way around a joke.
REVIEW: Mean Girls Musical Proves You Can’t Go Home(room) Again
Tina Fey’s satire of high school cliquishness ages uncomfortably into the social media era.
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