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Theatre Review (London’s West End): Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ Starring Ian McKellen
McKellen is truly a master of his craft in the title role, shaking his fist and controlling his tone as he rages at the other characters in this memorable production.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Broadway): ‘Farinelli and the King’ with Mark Rylance
Well played all around, this Shakespeare's Globe production is blessed with the preternaturally naturalistic Rylance, whose severely manic-depressive and sometimes delusional King Philippe V of Spain is both brilliantly imagined and pulsatingly real.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Desperate Measures’ – Exceptional, Rollicking Fun at The York Theatre
The comical plot of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' radiates hilarity and melodic, witty grace in this glorious musical. Clever, comedic twists run rampant, and this high farce, set to an illustrative musical score, both appealing and profound, delivers moment-to-moment joyous excitement.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Presents ‘Henry VI Part 3’
This is lively full-strength Shakespeare, a dizzying story of changing fortunes and changing sides, loyalty and betrayal, weakness and strength, war and more war, with only small and hesitant hopes for peace – and all made easy to follow and admire.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘King Lear’ at the Secret Theatre
This Lear is an old man in a care facility, wearing hospital pajamas and being sung to by the staff on his birthday. Yet, neither radical nor half-hearted, this re-conception of Shakespeare's grandest tragedy results in a respectful and forceful staging.
Read More »Opera Review (NYC): ‘Prince of Players’ by Carlisle Floyd
Floyd's music mixes modernist dissonance with classic lyricism, a recipe that the composer-librettist has mastered and fine-tuned perhaps better than anyone else.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ at the Classic Theatre
Mark McCarver's production, takes full advantage of the play's comic aspects, and it's the right choice. The house was packed on opening night and there were lots of laughs.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’ from Red Bull Theater
Sometimes soldiers can only be great killing machines, nothing more, nothing less.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’
This powerful little production of Shakespeare's depiction of one of the foulest sides of human nature makes the racial aspect of the tragedy ring resoundingly true, especially in today's climate of fear and prejudice.
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