The Little Opera Theatre of NY’s production of Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ L’amant Anonyme is an exercise in restrained beauty that should inspire other opera companies to remember that the power of the artform isn’t bound by the size of the venue wh …Read more
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell deliver the brilliant gift that is Bright Star to audiences this spring, a new musical about how we choose to tell our stories. Set in the southern part of the United States in the middle of the 20th century, Bright Sta …Read more
The 2015-2016 theatre season saw us witnessing the fifth Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. This means it is now proceeded by Show Boat, The Threepenny Opera and Porgy & Bess as the musicals most revived on Broadway. There have been many mo …Read more
Though rarely mentioned in the same breath as Fiddler, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein classics, the Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock and Joe Masteroff tuner, She Loves Me, ranks up there with the most loved and admired stage …Read more
Lyricist Sheldon Harnick is a bona fide Broadway legend, having created over a dozen musicals, many of which (particularly his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock) became part of the theatrical canon. He is also one of the rare writers who was aw …Read more
The central character in Olivier Letellier’s Oh Boy!, a young man by the name of Barthélémy, finds himself suddenly becoming father figure to three recently orphaned children, who will force him to leave behind his frivolous ways and dare him to grow …Read more
With a plain white stage, a simple drum set, and three bodies dressed in black, BOOMERANG Dance and Performance Project’s Repercussion calls the audience to rethink the sounds, shapes, and interactions within dance. The bare aesthetic of the show, pe …Read more
Self-proclaimed “over-educated under-achievers”, the lost, angst-ridden, identity-searching 20-somethings we all know intimately, perhaps uncomfortably, well, define the landscape of I Am Not An Allegory (these are people i know), written by Libby Em …Read more
Bus stops sure have changed since Inge’s day. The action of Martyna Majok’s Ironbound, now playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in a co-production with Women’s Project Theater, all occurs around a bus bench in Elizabeth, New Jersey and its main …Read more
The New York Pops took the stage of Carnegie Hall on March 11, 2016, to put on what might very well be the best of their shows this reviewer has seen. A spectacular celebration of Broadway since the 1970s called 42nd on 57th: Broadway Today. The orch …Read more