LATE NIGHT SNACKS: Stephanie Blythe (Bearded Ladies): 2019 Fringe review
Stephanie Blythe as Blythely Oratonio performing at LATE NIGHT SNACKS
Music
FEAR ITSELF (Hum’n’Bards): Fringe review 2019
A ghost tour through a cemetery with vignettes of ghosts’ backstories
GAY MIS (Eric Jaffe): 2019 Fringe review
Drag queens, musical parodies, and fart jokes—a parody of Les Mis.
Music in Sketch: Zaccai Curtis Quintet (Exuberance Music)
The music in the Exuberance Music space is fashioned to set the bar for the finest taste in design and sound. The home entertainment in this urban designed living room…
CANDIDE (Philadelphia Orchestra): A dilettante at large review
A dilettante at large Toby Zinman reviews Candide by Leonard Bernstein.
The Master and the Magician: Fred Hersch and Cécile McLorin Salvant open the McCarter’s Second Jazz in June Festival
She pleases, she teases, and she appeases.
A dilettante at large reviews RIDERS TO THE SEA/ EMPTY THE HOUSE (Curtis Opera)
Theater critic extraordinaire Toby Zinman continues her forays into other art forms with a visit to Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theatre to see two one-act operas presented by the Curtis Opera Theatre
RENEWAL (Choral Arts Philadelphia): Matt Glandorf looks to Bach’s predecessors for the final Bach@7 concert of the season
Stay with us; for it is toward evening and the day is spent.
ALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?
The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra
Music in Sketch: DOT MATRIX
The Sketchbook Reporter checked out a musical adventure from Dot Matrix.
KODO: A dilettante at large enjoys the Japanese drum troup
Toby Zinman feels the Japanese rhythms of KODO drum troupe.
Music in Sketch: UPTOWN NIGHTS (Philly POPS)
The Philly Pops roused the rhythm and blues, and the classical and traditional on the same stage.
What A Lark: The dilettante at large has A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with Opera Philly
Visually, musically, and vocally gorgeous, this is a delectable MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Opera Philadelphia): Fairy magic and flying beds
Benjamin Britten’s music still sounds wonderfully imaginative and modern
Xavier Foley makes the double bass sing at PCMS
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents a Musical Fund Society Series with Xavier Foley, Sejoon Park, and Eunice Kim
Piffaro Presents a 16th-Century French Noel
The exquisite program notes took the audience as close to the sixteenth century French Noel midnight mass as possible
Heath and More: a British string quartet provides a tour of musical landscapes in a PCMS concert
The Heath Quartet plays Tippett, Britten, and Purcell
Broadway Wants You to Vote
Mario Lopez and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead a group of Broadway performers lending their voices to a new “Get Out the Vote” music video
A dilettante at large reviews NE QUITTEZ PAS (Opera Philadelphia)
What a complicated evening, filled with gorgeous singing and roiled emotions and puzzling theatrics
