Benjamin Britten’s witty comic opera Albert Herring is a coming of age story plus a clever satire on the perils of provincial living in a small English village. The Bronx Opera Company has mounted an excellent production with a strong cast and a magn …Read more

Composer and sound artist Ellen Reid, whose opera Winter’s Child is part of the 2015 Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison Projects, is keenly observant. As we meet up at Amy’s on 9th Avenue for a chat, I notice the depth to which she takes in …Read more

Sometimes you are fortunate to have an extraordinary experience in the theater, when all the elements come together gloriously. I received such a blessing at The Scarlet Ibis, a new American opera that is part of the 2015 Prototype Festival and co-pr …Read more

Listening to the final strains of medieval music sung from the vestibule leading to the altar and looking at the last vestiges of daylight coming through the stained glass windows at Trinity Church on Wall Street, I thought what a perfect antidote Th …Read more

Kate Dimbleby has a passion for exploring the work of female singers. A decade ago, she toured her one woman show Fever! The Making of Peggy Lee internationally; her newest project, now having its US premiere at 59E59th Theaters, highlights the lesse …Read more

  Just sitting in El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio before Gotham Chamber Opera and Tectonic Theater Project’s production of El gato con botas (Puss in Boots) begins is a visual prelude to the magical hour of music, storytelling and puppetry that …Read more

Illness, death, divorce, missed opportunities, crushing defeats. What does it take to survive life’s crueler blows? Each of the five characters in Mat Smart’s play Naperville, having its world premiere at the June Havoc Theater, has been broadsided b …Read more

Richard Pearson Thomas’ comic opera A Wake or a Wedding, now playing at the Rose Nagelberg Theater/Baruch Performing Arts Center, receives a vivacious world premiere production from Encompass New Opera Theater, a company dedicated to creating, develo …Read more

Baruch Performing Arts Center’s theater is buzzing with activity; people are scurrying above me on catwalks focusing lights and drills buzz on the stage as the production crew assemble the set for Encompass New Opera Theatre’s production of A Wake or …Read more

Shepley Metcalf, cabaret and jazz vocalist, treated her audience to a delightful set of relatively unknown songs from the 1930’s to the 1950’s at the Metropolitan Room on Saturday night. Celebrating the release of her third CD, Don’t Bother to Knock, …Read more