Modigliani at the Barnes Foundation is a ravishing exhibition in a ravishing venue.
View More MODIGLIANI UP CLOSE at the Barnes: A dilettante at large reviewsAuthor: Toby Zinman
New York Reviews: LEOPOLDSTADT and COST OF LIVING:
Two meditations on misfortune show us what it is to be “laughing wild amid severest woe.”
View More New York Reviews: LEOPOLDSTADT and COST OF LIVING:OTELLO (Opera Philadelphia): A dilettante at large reviews
This is one for the life list if you’re an opera fan.
View More OTELLO (Opera Philadelphia): A dilettante at large reviewsTRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farce
Tom Stoppard’s newest play Leopoldstadt is coming to New York, and once again he is being talked about as if he were the second coming…
View More TRAVESTIES (Lantern): A play of ideas married to farceTWO-CHARACTER PLAY (IRC): 2022 Fringe review
Nobody writes crazy, despairing, desperate women like Tennessee Williams
View More TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (IRC): 2022 Fringe reviewINTO THE WOODS (Arden): A Sondheim show for grown-ups
No woods. No cutesy pop-up book set. Just three hours of pure musical theater pleasure: gorgeous melodies, clever lyrics, profound ideas and a dream cast.…
View More INTO THE WOODS (Arden): A Sondheim show for grown-upsFABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE (Lantern): A funny play with a serious agenda
Lynn Nottage knows how to “sustain the complexity” so that this funny play with a serious agenda works
View More FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE (Lantern): A funny play with a serious agendaREVERIE (Azuka Theatre): Aiming for a high bar
What with James Ijames winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (bravo!) two days ago, the bar was set very high for his newest play
View More REVERIE (Azuka Theatre): Aiming for a high barRIGOLETTO (Opera Philadelphia): A Dilettante at Large reviews
Dilettante at Large (Toby Zinman) has awakened from her long pandemic slumber, and is once again writing about stuff she knows little about but enjoys, unlike theater which she knows quite a lot about and doesn’t always enjoy.
View More RIGOLETTO (Opera Philadelphia): A Dilettante at Large reviewsWHERE WE BELONG (PTC): A young woman’s earnest and confused identity crisis
An impressively credentialed show from The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library is launching its national tour in Philadelphia.
View More WHERE WE BELONG (PTC): A young woman’s earnest and confused identity crisisLantern Theater’s Brave Return to Stage: A Man For All Seasons
What a brave return to live theater this production is! Lantern Theater Company gives us old-time drama and powerful theater, full of big ideas and complex language, rather than a bit of fluff to amuse or console us. With a top-notch cast and clever direction by Peter DeLaurier, it’s a heady three hours.
View More Lantern Theater’s Brave Return to Stage: A Man For All SeasonsTHE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM (IRT): What went wrong?
Sebastian Barry, author of The Steward of Christendom, is a major Irish playwright. I am a major fan of Irish drama. Irish Heritage Theatre, whose…
View More THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM (IRT): What went wrong?[nyc] THE HEADLANDS (Lincoln Center): Unraveling a family history
Families, as we know, have secrets
View More [nyc] THE HEADLANDS (Lincoln Center): Unraveling a family history[nyc] CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND (Signature Theatre): Rocking Off-Broadway
Playwright Lauren Yee’s script is really two shows: an old-fashioned rock concert uncomfortably yoked to a somber history drama.
View More [nyc] CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND (Signature Theatre): Rocking Off-BroadwayHELLO DOLLY! (touring): 60-second review
They sure don’t write them like this anymore.
View More HELLO DOLLY! (touring): 60-second reviewFOOL FOR LOVE (EgoPo): Secrets, raw passion, and danger
Sam Shepard can set up a world like nobody else
View More FOOL FOR LOVE (EgoPo): Secrets, raw passion, and dangerA HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW (Inis Nua): 60-second review
This solo show is performed by Satchel Williams, who can best be described as adorbs.
View More A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW (Inis Nua): 60-second review[nyc] MEDEA (BAM): Euripides should sue
British auteur-director Simon Stone has rewritten the ancient Greek tragedy, Medea, to fit the contours of the contemporary world
View More [nyc] MEDEA (BAM): Euripides should sueMAN OF GOD (InterAct): Worthy of praise
Anna Moench’s new, short, fascinating play is not to be missed.
View More MAN OF GOD (InterAct): Worthy of praiseMY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors calling
Time travel as spiritual reality and a throbbing moral obligation
View More MY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors calling