Reviewer's Rating Frankenstein Aleksandra Pytko 20/02/2018In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, a novel that tells the story of a young ambitious scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who...
Reviewer's Rating Abduction from the Seraglio Aparna Halpé 19/02/2018The COCs new production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio attempts much, but delivers little. The production, at first...
Reviewer's Rating Pete Rex Austin Fimmano 16/02/2018Have you ever watched Jurassic Park and wished that it was a lot weirder? And that, instead of a magical...
Reviewer's Rating Three Sisters Leslie Gordon 15/02/2018Sarah Ruhl, the funny, sensitive somewhat absurdist playwright of our time, interpreting Anton Chekhov, the grandfather of it all– what...
Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Shmuel Ben-Tovim 14/02/2018This was an absolutely amazing, sophisticated, breathtaking opera production, definitely one of the best in recent memory at the Tel...
Reviewer's Rating Time Stands Still Nicole Cardoni 13/02/2018“I live off the suffering of strangers,” reflects Sarah Goodwin, a wartime photographer and the lead character in Donald Margulies’...
Reviewer's Rating Written on Skin Katherine Syer 12/02/2018Disclaimer: the highly successful premiere production of George Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin (2012) is etched firmly in my memory....
Reviewer's Rating X: or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation Austin Fimmano 06/02/2018A slickly-dressed, silver-tongued man is talking a mile a minute, and his words are so harmonious that, if you knew...
Reviewer's Rating The Cult Play Becca Kaplan 04/02/2018“Welcome to the sanctuary. Please turn off your cellphones and put your coats and bags under the chairs.” That is...
Reviewer's Rating Rigoletto Aparna Halpé 30/01/2018Alexander Neef, General Director of the COC, describes Verdi’s Rigoletto as “incendiary”. He situates this production within a historical moment...
