For more than 100 years, the public has had a fascination with femme fatale Mata Hari, an exotic dancer, professional paramour and perhaps a double agent for both France and Germany during World War I.  There is the iconic 1931 movie starring Greta G …Read more

Composer Missy Mazzoli creates some of the most immersive soundscapes in contemporary opera, her layered work not only helps create the psychology of her characters, but also challenges the form by making it modern, and also hauntingly timeless. In B …Read more

You can tell Saulo García has years of experience in comedy for the way in which he reads a room. At the first performance of his show Sin wifi también se vive at Repertorio Español (through January 8th) it was as if he wanted to make sure each and e …Read more

Although the title The First Noel implies that this musical is a Christmas story, in many ways it isn’t. Rather it leans heavily on the drama, against a backdrop of spectacular music, songs and visual feasts. Set in Harlem in 1985, The First Noel, pe …Read more

It doesn’t feel like too much of a stretch to say that everyone who did drama in high school found themselves in a production of Our Town at some point in their budding acting career (unless of course you did The Crucible instead). That’s certainly t …Read more

Remember those I Spy books with the photographic picture riddles full of miniatures and myriad objects imaginatively arrayed? There was often a surreal quality to these primarily visual books; a feeling of browsing through the freely associated token …Read more

Midway through Erik Ehn’s latest experimental drama Clover, the character of Mamie (played by Laura E. Johnston) reminds the audience that Emmett Till’s murderers sold the story of their hate crime to a publication for four thousand dollars. “This pl …Read more

In the stunning Elements of Oz (The Builders Association production at 3LD through December 18), audience members get to be part of the creation of the classic 1939 film of The Wizard of Oz. Through the use of inventive technology – and our smartphon …Read more

Eugene O’Neill’s enthusiasm for that which flowed, be it the sea upon which he spent his early adulthood, or the drink that diluted the top and bottom generations of his family, propped up the arcs of many of his plays. In his Pulitzer Prize winning …Read more