In the political news in the past few years, the concern has been not with the lifespan of facts, but the lifespan of lies
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Carmina Burana + Credo (Opera Philly): A dilettante at large review
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Terrific actors playing lovable characters, important issues, snappy dialogue, and plenty of comedy
View More CLYDE’S (Arden): All the ingredients are hereKISS (Wilma): What does it mean when someone else is representing you?
A play is about acting as well as the political act of making theater as well as about getting it wrong through cultural appropriation
View More KISS (Wilma): What does it mean when someone else is representing you?BROADS (1812 Productions): A tip of the hat to the grand old dames of comedy
Take it from this old broad, Broads, 1812 Productions’ new show, is an entertaining 75 minutes—if you like funny songs and dirty jokes.
View More BROADS (1812 Productions): A tip of the hat to the grand old dames of comedyBEOWULF (Benjamin Bagby): A rare theatrical experience
Benjamin Bagby takes on the role of the scop, the storyteller
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Are you missing those bad hairdos and baggy blue suits of 1969?
View More LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (Walnut): Feeling nostalgic?[NYC] OHIO STATE MURDERS: Still experimental, still challenging, and still exciting controversy
Adrienne Kennedy’s crushingly beautiful play, Ohio State Murders, is making a long overdue debut on Broadway.
View More [NYC] OHIO STATE MURDERS: Still experimental, still challenging, and still exciting controversy[NYC] SOME LIKE IT HOT: Irony-free goodness
This new musical comedy, a Big Broadway rewrite of the 1959 classic movie, Some Like it Hot, offers fabulosity: huge production numbers, flashy costumes, marvelous…
View More [NYC] SOME LIKE IT HOT: Irony-free goodness[NYC] BECKY NURSE OF SALEM (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center)
The Crucible, has withstood all manner of productions, from starry Broadway to high school drama club, and it will withstand Sarah Ruhl’s crass replay, Becky Nurse of Salem
View More [NYC] BECKY NURSE OF SALEM (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center)BIG APPLE CIRCUS: A dilettante at large review
Where are the great acts I remembered? The trained cats? the galloping horses? the iron men? the Wheel of Death?
View More BIG APPLE CIRCUS: A dilettante at large reviewDEATH OF A DRIVER (InterAct): Years pass, roads are built, potholes appear
“We are together.” This line is an often-repeated refrain in Death of a Driver, a grim new play by Will Snider presented by InterAct at the Drake’s Proscenium…
View More DEATH OF A DRIVER (InterAct): Years pass, roads are built, potholes appearLES MISERABLES (National Tour): How do you say schmaltz in French?
Q: How do you say schmaltz in French? A: Les Miserables. This long musical melodrama, based on Victor Hugo’s long novelistic melodrama is currently wowing…
View More LES MISERABLES (National Tour): How do you say schmaltz in French?10 DATES WITH MAD MARY (Inis Nua): Irish charm at Fergies Pub
Anna Faye Lieberman gives us the raging, disappointed, self-indicting, violent, drunk, lonely, and altogether wild-hearted Mary
View More 10 DATES WITH MAD MARY (Inis Nua): Irish charm at Fergies PubMODIGLIANI UP CLOSE at the Barnes: A dilettante at large reviews
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 reviewsNew 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-ups