Reviewer's Rating Hal and Bee Elizabeth Bove 22/03/2018Every unhappy marriage is unhappy in its own way, and that famous first line might be applied to Max Baker’s...
Reviewer's Rating Much Ado About Nothing Colin Macdonald 21/03/2018“For man is a giddy thing” says Benedick at the conclusion of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Giddy is a...
Reviewer's Rating The Wholehearted Ann Pryor 19/03/2018Set on an open boxing ring, The Wholehearted is a messy look at one woman’s rags-to-riches journey from talented athlete...
Reviewer's Rating Don Carlo Shmuel Ben-Tovim 18/03/2018This was a classic opera production, a remake of original direction and design made for several Spanish opera companies. The...
Reviewer's Rating Education Becca Kaplan 16/03/2018What is left to fight for today, when everybody claims both that the world is burning, and that people are...
Reviewer's Rating Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose-Bearer) Alina Bottez 10/03/2018Otto Schenk’s production is by now a classic. Having premiered in 1972, it is one of the longest-running opera productions...
Reviewer's Rating A Letter to Harvey Milk. Becca Kaplan 05/03/2018When I saw A Letter to Harvey Milk, it was the night after Purim. What a fitting time to see...
Reviewer's Rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Alina Bottez 05/03/2018It seems that the tumultuous fate of Somma’s libretto, moved to three different settings, was not enough. Director Erath makes...
Reviewer's Rating Semiramide Marc Aronson 23/02/2018Attending the premier of the revival of Giacomo Rossini’s Semiramide at the Metropolitan Opera the week after Black Panther opened...
Reviewer's Rating Contemporaneity 2.0 Aparna Halpé 21/02/2018What would truth and reconciliation look like, sound like, feel like, if it arrived through the body-knowledge of Indigenous, Black...
