An assimilated Jewish composer bonds with his peasant-class Polish housekeeper in wartime Warsaw – but will it mean escape, or existential collapse?
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Opera Review: ‘Manon!’ – From Heartbeat Opera, Massenet’s Tragic Courtesan
This isn't your great-great-grandparents' Massenet. But I'll bet they would have liked it, and I'll bet even opera purists and snobs will appreciate what Heartbeat and Co. have done here.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Anonymous’ Drops Audience into an Addiction Support Group
They could almost be the characters in an old-fashioned murder mystery. But no one's solving a crime; they're here to support each other as they try to solve themselves.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘The Honey Trap,’ Taut, Suspenseful Theater
When two off-duty British soldiers meet two pretty Irish women in a pub, things go swimmingly until they don't in Leo McGann's 'The Honey Trap.'
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Fire This Time Festival 2026
Six short plays by emerging Black playwrights tackle racism and civil rights, heroes and villains, and family dynamics.
Read More »Theater/Cabaret Review (NYC): ‘Tiergarten’ from Death of Classical and the Prototype Festival
Death of Classical and the Prototype Festival, two of NYC's cultural powerhouses, coalesced on Friday night, turning packed audiences into time travelers.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Dream Feed’ by The HawtPlates
Both the show and the music mingle genres so organically that they actually escape genre, building a thoroughly original creation that draws the audience into an ecstatically human experience.
Read More »Opera Review: Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ from NYGASP
The cast's many company veterans play off of one another with frankness and ease in the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' latest staging of the classic light opera.
Read More »Opera Review: ‘Hildegard’ by Sarah Kirkland Snider
A new opera based on the life of the 12th-century Benedictine nun and visionary is one of the most enthralling theatrical experiences I can remember.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘PACKRAT: The Quest por la Abundancia’ from Concrete Temple Theatre
This new fable with roots in the lands of the Indigenous Comcáac people of Mexico is told with bountiful puppet ingenuity. But with more focus and tauter pacing it could have reached much higher.
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