THEATRE REVIEW: Local Girls at Azuka Is an After-School Special with an Edge
There’s more than a hint of young adult fiction to Emma Goidel’s play, but the right audiences will enjoy it.
OPERA REVIEW: Capriccio is a Triumph
Richard Strauss’ funny, beautiful and moving last opera is superbly done in this co-production by Curtis Opera Theatre and Opera Philadelphia.
MUSIC REVIEW: At the Met, Anna Netrebko Reinvents the Recital
The 3,800 seat Metropolitan Opera may be a temple to music – but it’s not a recital hall. Increasingly, though, the company […]
THEATER REVIEW: Red has Intimacy Issues
John Logan’s play is executed skillfully at the Walnut Studio, but the intimate space robs it of its grandeur.
THEATER REVIEW: Theatre Exile’s Smoke is 50 Shades of Meh
Kim Davies’ play about sexual bondage feels like a cynical exercise in edginess for its own sake.
THEATER REVIEW: Pippin Dazzles at the Academy of Music
Director Diane Paulus’s circus-style production is a visual dazzler – but two Broadway veterans walk off with the show.
DF Reviews Spine (Inis Nua Theatre Company)
Clara Brennan’s intriguing one-character play — a love-letter to libraries — gets a fine production at Inis Nua, with an extraordinary performance by Emily R. Johnson.
DF Reviews Buried Child (New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center, New York)
I was introduced to Sam Shepard’s writing when I was in college, and it was love at first read. At that point […]
DF Reviews Cabin in the Sky (Encores! Musicals in Concert)
It was inevitable and important that Encores would do Cabin in the Sky, the 1940 musical by Vernon Duke, John Latouche and Lynn […]
DF on Cold Mountain (Opera Philadelphia)
With Cold Mountain — a major new work, superbly performed — Opera Philadelphia makes another leap forward.
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