3.0★ ★ ★ Footloose Richard McKee 17/08/2022 This is a curate’s egg of a show. It’s good in parts, indeed very good. But some of it is pretty bad, particularly the ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Coppélia Ben Reiss 15/08/2022 This modern-day reworking of Léo Delibes’ Coppélia is an eerie, propulsive, visually arresting but often infuriating bal...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Carmen Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 12/08/2022 The Baseless Fabric company exists to bring theatre and opera to public spaces and to give new audiences the chance to e...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Counting and Cracking Ben Reiss 11/08/2022 In Sri Lanka, in July 1983, thousands of Tamil civilians were killed during a week of vicious rioting. This horrific per...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Aida Alessandro Zummo 17/08/2022 Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience as...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Káťa Kabanová Salzburg Festival 2022 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2022 “So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing hers...
3.0★ ★ ★ Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022 For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die ...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Il Barbiere di Siviglia Salzburger Festspiele Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022 Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasi...
Enzo Mancuso in conversation with Enza De Francisci Enza De Francisci 26/07/2022 When and where does the Opera dei pupi being? Sicily’s early puppet tradition developed from what was called the vast...
Gaetano Grasso In conversation with Enza De Francisci Enza De Francisci 22/07/2022 What does the Puparo represent for you? The puparo is the one who creates and builds typical Sicilian puppets, bette...
Under the Radar The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival Austin Fimmano 17/01/2020 The Public Theater has long since established its reputation as a haven for up-and-coming artists and theatrical product...
She NYC Arts Festival Gillian Russo 09/07/2019 In the past two weeks, I have time-traveled, hopped from coast to coast, boosted my language-learning skills, laughed, c...
