Theater Review (NYC): ‘Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey’– a New Work by...
With all its high-tech spectacle and stagecraft, Richard Foreman’s first new work in a decade revels in the retro. Travis Just’s electric screeches and industrial soundscapes scream dark metal, but...
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Theater Review (Broadway): ‘Cult of Love’– Hilarious Xmas Chaos
Cult of Love The Dahl family Christmas festivities initially seduce one’s emotions in the exquisitely acted and directed Cult of Love, currently at the Helen Hayes Theater until February 2, 2025....
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Theater Review (Broadway): ‘Eureka Day,’ Riotous Controversy With Twists
Eureka Day Eureka Day, an ultra progressive elementary school in Berkley that uplifts humanity, decency, and inclusion, takes its name from a word which means discovery. The school’s title references...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘SpaceBridge’– Out of the Mouths of Russian Refugee...
I must admit I did not know what to expect at SpaceBridge, the bold theater piece now at La Mama. Scenographer and stage polymath Irina Kruzhilina aimed to tell the stories of Russian children forced...
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Theater Review: Puppetry Wizards of Wakka Wakka Come Alive with ‘Dead as a Dodo’
I’ve been following the master puppeteers of Wakka Wakka since at least 2008, and they’re back in New York City with what may be their grandest show yet. Critics throw the words “astonishing” around a...
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Theater Review (Broadway): In ‘Gypsy,’ Audra McDonald is a Shattering Mama Rose
Gypsy The beloved musical Gypsy, now in its fifth Broadway revival since its 1959 premiere, has won hearts the world over. Arthur Laurents (book), Jule Styne (music), and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics)...
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Boston Lyric Opera’s Upcoming ‘The Seasons’—Opera, Dance, and Climate Change
Music by Antonio Vivaldi. Words by Sara Ruhl. A bird dance. A set made of water, soap bubbles and suds. English, Italian, Latin. The Seasons, debuting in March in Boston, draws on 300-year-old music...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Degas & Cassatt’ by Efa & Rubio, from NBM
Degas & Cassatt Degas & Cassatt: A Solitary Dance by Salva Rubio and Efa paints the biographical portrait of one of the 19th century’s most perplexing artists, Edgar Degas. At first glance,...
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Opera Review: World Premiere of ‘Primero Sueño,’ a Processional Opera by...
A mystical pyramid ascends toward the heavens. A protagonist yearns to follow, to heights from which she can experience a view of the whole world. Like Phaeton, her vehicle comes crashing down....
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Theater Review: (Broadway) ‘English’
English In Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-Prize winning play English, currently on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre, the playwright highlights how our language defines us. Thematically, Toossi’s play...
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Theater Review (Broadway): ‘Redwood’ Starring Idina Menzel
Redwood Though Redwood features information and photographic wonders of glorious redwood forests with amazing LED stagecraft and video design, the heart of the musical starring Idina Menzel reveals a...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Measure for Measure’ by William Shakespeare, from the...
Like so many New Yorkers, the Eno River Players is a transplant, having relocated from Durham, NC just two years ago. Founder Leo Eggert writes in the program for the company’s current production of...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘no no no please no god no, nevermind i’m fine’– Sarina...
Taking a psychedelic drug like LSD can lead to revelations both euphoric and terrifying. Much feels like a nightmare in the acid trip Sarina Freda enacts for us in her funny, frantic solo show no no...
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Theater Review: ‘Curse of the Starving Class,’ Starring Christian Slater,...
Curse of the Starving Class Sam Shepard’s popular Curse of the Starving Class in a New Group revival thematically resonates with hunger, spiritually, psychically, emotionally. First appearing at the...
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Theater Review: ‘Liberation’
Liberation Viewing the women’s movement since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, one wonders whether the struggling waves of feminism over the years have yielded lasting results. Bess Wohl’s Liberation...
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Theater Review: ‘Ghosts,’ Starring Lily Rabe, Billy Crudup
Ghosts Henrik Ibsen’s controversial play Ghosts privately premiered in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. Produced in Danish for Danish immigrants, it dealt with themes too scandalous for a European public....
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Trojans,’ a New SynthWave Musical by Leegrid Stevens
There’s a classic episode of South Park where one of the boys sees the girls playing with one of those fortunetelling paper constructions you wear on your hand. Thinking it possesses real prediction...
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Theater Review (Broadway): In ‘Operation Mincemeat’ History Meets Hilarity
Operation Mincemeat Journeying from London’s West End where SplitLip’s rollicking musical Operation Mincemeat won two Olivier Awards in 2024, the original cast of five principals, who play multiple...
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Theater Review: ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’– An Astonishing Sarah Snook
The Picture of Dorian Gray Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner for her role as Shiv in Succession, Sarah Snook makes her debut exploding out of the Broadway gate with her shattering, one-woman,...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Café Resistance’
The premise of Café Resistance seemed promising and timely. This play with music concerns a Paris nightclub-bordello commandeered in 1939 for the use of occupying Nazi officers, and of the lives and...
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