MusicTheatre Maestro Hits a Flat Note Dramatically, but Soars Musically By David Sheward on February 6, 2019 The life of Arturo Toscanini, perhaps the greatest conductor of the 20th century, would... Read more →
Theatre Well Hello, Betty! By Steve Gottfried on February 6, 2019 Betty Buckley is the latest Broadway diva to pick up the baton as the irrepressible... Read more →
MusicTheatre Lyrical Pelleas et Melisande at the Met By David Sheward on January 30, 2019 Claude Debussy’s moving Pelleas et Melisande defies operatic convention. Eschewing... Read more →
LiteratureTheatre 1 An Inspector Calls Again. And Again. By Sylvie Drake on January 30, 2019 A trivial bit of information about British novelist, author and playwright J.B. Priestley... Read more →
Theatre 2 Mid-Life Crisis Here We Go. Again. By Sylvie Drake on January 23, 2019 I’m not sure how many more midlife crises will be at the center of an American play... Read more →
Theatre Marin Ireland Is a Latter-Day Blanche DuBois in Blue Ridge By David Sheward on January 16, 2019 Few actresses can wring as many variations on self-indulgent despair as Marin Ireland.... Read more →
Theatre Dear Evan Hansen Offers a Poignant and Timely Musical for Our Times By Steve Gottfried on January 9, 2019 When Dear Evan Hansen first opened on Broadway in December 2016, the unassuming musical... Read more →
MusicTheatre African-American, Gay Voices On and Off-Broadway By David Sheward on January 9, 2019 You can count on the fingers of two hands the number of African-American playwrights who... Read more →
ArtTheatre A Perfect Circle of People, or… Karma, Coincidence, and Clowns By Eric Trules on January 2, 2019 Sometimes… on a certain night…. or on a certain day…. or in a certain moment,... Read more →
MusicTheatre Mixed Media: Mockingbird, Fact and Clueless By David Sheward on December 23, 2018 Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) is a beloved American classic. Taught in high... Read more →
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