My latest essay is up at Art Times.  I would love to hear what you all think about the issues discussed. Periodically, old shows with iff...

It's been 25 years since I last saw Angels in America , which remains one of the most powerful theatergoing experiences I've ever ha...

What if the most heroic thing any of us can do is simply to survive? [spoilers, arguably, but this is not a plot-driven show] In Good fo...

When the stage went dark at the end of  Bunny , my mouth dropped and I did not know what to feel. Empowered? Astounded? And just a tiny bit...

[spoilers throughout] Yes, curse words sung operatically by incredibly talented people are startlingly funny. And arguments about who'...

For all its highbrow associations, there's a hell of a lot of lowbrow to opera, what with all the really dumb cases of mistaken identity...