Reviewer's Rating L’Avare Chloe Darnaud 10/01/2017n an attempt to make the play accessible, L’Avare fails miserably by excessively dumbing down the play. The original L’Avare...
Reviewer's Rating Le Petit-Maître Corrigé Chloe Darnaud 10/01/2017arivaux’s Le Petit-Maître corrigé, revived by Clément Hervieu-Léger, had only been played twice before at the Comédie-Française in 1734. Infuriating...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Irina Antesberger [Age: 16] 04/01/2017he sorceress Alcina reigns over an enchanted island where she entices heroes to come as lovers but eventually converts them...
Reviewer's Rating The Adventures of Minami Paul Meltzer 03/01/2017The title notwithstanding, Minami can't really have adventures; she's an android with no knowable inner states. But for that
Reviewer's Rating Messa da Requiem Katherine Syer 01/01/2017ecent years have seen a growing number of oratorios, cantatas, and song cycles explored for their theatrical potential on stage,...
Reviewer's Rating Salome Paul Meltzer 30/12/2016Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts disgustingly. That seems to be the message behind Richard Strauss's opera.
Reviewer's Rating God of Vengeance Charles Bittner 30/12/2016Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance, written in 1906, opened this week at La MaMa Theater. The play explores...
Reviewer's Rating The Encounter Paul Meltzer 29/12/2016Who do we actually encounter in The Encounter? A powerful artist, some faraway people, our own assumptions.
Reviewer's Rating Les Liaisons Dangereuse Paul Meltzer 26/12/2016Valmont's reputation for savage civility precedes him. The play takes place in the 1780s, not long before the French Revolution...
Reviewer's Rating Life is for Living: Conversations with Coward Elizabeth Bove 20/12/2016We enter the third floor cabaret at 59 East 59. The lights are subdued, the small tables covered with white table cloths. We are...