Reviewer's Rating Much Ado About Nothing Austin Fimmano 12/06/2019The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park has long been one of New York’s most prized cultural jewels – and...
Reviewer's Rating Das Rheingold Mel Cooper 10/06/2019The new Longborough Opera Festival production of Das Rheingold approximates, within the “given” of its setting and budget, just about...
Reviewer's Rating The Diary of One Who Disappeared Shadi Seifouri 08/06/2019Burdened by a forbidden muse, Leos Janacek’s 1919 song cycle, The Diary of One Who Disappeared, serves as an allegoric...
Reviewer's rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Tim Hochstrasser 08/06/2019This production represents Opera Holland Park at its best in making a fully persuasive case for an opera that often...
reviewer's rating Manon Lescaut Shadi Seifouri 06/06/2019Opera Holland Park, famed for its nuanced take on opera outdoors, opened its summer season with Puccini’s pivotal 1893 opera,...
Reviewer's Rating Napoli, Brooklyn Mel Cooper 06/06/2019I liked Napoli, Brooklyn. I found it interesting, though in the end it just didn’t quite add up for me....
Reviewer's Rating The Provoked Wife Mel Cooper 06/06/2019The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh is given a production that it truly deserves at the RSC, pivoting cleverly between...
Reviewer's Rating Brief Chronicle Books 6-8 Gillian Russo 05/06/2019To answer what’s probably your first question: no, you don’t need to see Books 1-5 first. They don’t exist. Ghosts,...
Reviewer's Rating Born to Mince Nicholas Potter 04/06/2019This year the empress of smut Julian Clary has returned to strut onstage with his aptly named comedy tour Born...
Reviewer's Rating Madame Lynch Elizabeth Bove 04/06/2019It was a fruitless endeavor, I said to myself after witnessing the Drunkard’s Wife’s production of Madame Lynch at The...
