It’s wonderful to find such an expert iteration of an exuberant musical right in our midst. The joy of being an Angeleno, after all, is the ability to sample a wide […]
After their monumental work on distilling E.L. Doctorow’s RAGTIME into a cohesive stage musical, playwright/librettist Terrence McNally approached Composer Stephen Flaherty and Lyricist Lynn Ahrens about a more intimate story from another […]
I’m a big fan of Tom Jacobson’s playwriting because he always seems to find a way to illuminate current agonies with past events in a reassuring way, letting audiences know […]
If Boston Huntington’s opening of The Light in the Piazza is predictive, this latest incarnation of the almost-classic American musical sung and spoken largely in Italian is a hit! The audience, noticeably […]
Tennessee Williams just couldn’t leave Blanche alone! In his 1968 rendering In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Miriam (Susan Priver), the unhappy wife of an alcoholic painter, dawdles her life away […]
The life of Federico Garcia Lorca, poet, playwright, and martyr could easily be the subject of a conventional biographical opera. But, with AINADAMAR, composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry […]
