On Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it’s changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell’s concept album had been turned into an inventively staged, soulful sung-through musical, with a uniformly terrific eight-member cast reenacting the Greek myth of Orpheus, who descends into the underworld to try to […]
Archives for April 17, 2019
Review: A Comedy of Tenors, a grand slam-bang farce with a little Traviata on the side
A farce, a farce! My kingdom for a farce! Fortunately, you won’t have to pay such a high price for this one- though, it’s worth it. Ken Ludwig, acclaimed author of Lend Me A Tenor, revisits the over-the-top world of opera and artists in this splendid A Comedy of Tenors, which features some of the […]
There’s a lot more than the return of Hamilton to the Kennedy Center 2019-20 season
There will be plenty of the familiar in the Kennedy Center’s 17-production mainstage season — classics like Cats, Bye Bye Birdie, Jesus Christ Superstar as well as musicals for which Washington has a special affection, such as Come From Away and Next to Normal — but also some new work, including plays from Palestine, Cuba […]
Review: Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son
Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son, Psalmayene 24’s creatively imagined encounter of two great American writers, Richard Wright and James Baldwin in a Parisian cafĂ© in 1953, thrusts the renowned African American writers back into modern sensibilities. Under Raymond O. Caldwell’s direction, it’s an explosive meeting that will rock your world. […]