Review
This entertaining opera is a real soap opera, given that it chronicles the fallout of the passionate protagonist’s unrequited love.
The Dead Don’t Die is a satiric trifle, but a cleverly amusing one.
Pacific Overtures offers a history lesson — but it is an entertaining, moving, thought-provoking, and timely one.
It’s an uncommon pleasure to see band members enjoy themselves the way Tip City did.
Letters from Gettysburg is an extraordinarily haunting five-movement work that elevates the experience of one man into a memorial to all victims of war.
What happens when a dubious scientific experiment yields unexpected results?
Joanna Hogg refuses by aesthetic principle to put a lot of inflection into her scenes, steering them away from melodrama and even heated drama. As a result, some episodes are half-baked, sketchy, and flat.
This marvelous production pulls off a tricky balance — vibrant bursts of creative energy are put at the service of illuminating the thorny nature of memory and guilt.
In this piece, Peter DiMuro asks a vital question: how has history informed the ways we look at queerness today?
Jean-Philppe Blondel’s books are especially praised by critics for their charm and smoothly-shaped prose.

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