Mozart’s Così fan tutte is a delicate work, finely balancing a cynical and psychologically disturbing libretto with some of the composer’s most lyrical and beguiling music. Yet Jonathan Mill... Read more
The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, performing at the Kennedy Center this past weekend as part of its farewell tour, offered a thrilling program of three contrasting works that made a persua... Read more
Krapp’s Last Tape, Samuel Beckett’s bleak and despairing play about the construction of individual identity in the face of time and mortality, is receiving a brilliant and unforgettable stag... Read more
In my review of the opening night cast of the Washington National Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor, I judged David Alden’s production to be dramatically uneven while reserving particular praise f... Read more
For its second production of the season, the Washington National Opera is offering a daringly revisionist interpretation of Donizetti’s bel canto classic, Lucia di Lammermoor. Director David... Read more
Synetic Theater has opened its latest season with a remounting of its acclaimed 2007 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a wordless, movement-driven production of visionary intensity and st... Read more
Puccini’s Tosca is one of the most supremely theatrical operas in the repertory, full of raw emotionalism and unrelenting in its dramatic tension. At its heart, the opera is a fierce battle... Read more
In the hands of an all-Australian cast, a Hungarian director with limited English, and an adaptor who doesn’t read Russian, Anton Chekhov’s play, Uncle Vanya, emerges as a farcical study of... Read more
Few musicals written for the Broadway stage have found as lasting a home in opera houses worldwide as Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 musical thriller. Sondheim’s masterful score, able... Read more
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