Conjuring Up Shakespeare’s Women In writer-director-choreographer Kate Mueth’s The She-Wolves, Sycorax, the unseen sorceress whom Prospero overthrew when he landed on her [...] January 17, 2025
Dead As a Dodo – Wondrous Visually “…based on Tales from the Crypt, Dante’s Inferno, and old Silly Symphonies cartoons,” Dead As a Dodo is a marvelously [...] January 14, 2025
Puccini’s La bohème Returns to the Met with a Wonderful Cast and a Young Audience Puccini’s La bohème in the beloved Zeffirelli production returned to an almost full house on January 11, and it was encouraging for [...] January 13, 2025
Gypsy – Mama Rose as Medea There are a multitude of differences between the latest iteration of this iconic 1959 musical and its predecessors. Some work, others [...] January 13, 2025
Cult of Love – A Masterful Dramedy A Connecticut, Norman Rockwellish farmhouse (enviable and move-in ready as designed by the excellent John Lee Beatty) is decorated [...] January 11, 2025
The Metropolitan Opera’s New Aida – At Least Give Us the Nile in the Nile Scene Few musical moments are more evocative in opera than the opening of Aida‘s Third Act. The delicate music paints the swaying of the [...] January 10, 2025
The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy – Rod Serling Would Approve “Is anyone out there? This is Egon Tichy. Does anyone copy, over?” Egon Tichy is making a solitary voyage somewhere near the star, [...] January 8, 2025
Bashevis’s Demons– 3 Tales by Isaac Bashevis Singer Bashevis’s Demons is performed in Yiddish. Supertitles are clear and timely on projections above the stage. Like the Yiddish Fiddler on [...] December 30, 2024