Arts
‘An American Soldier’: New opera asks troubling questions about citizenship
June 8, 2018Hazing becomes racial harassment becomes sadistic torture becomes death. This was the experience of Pvt. Danny Chen in the U.S. Army.
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Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’: An ancient class struggle epic with modern topicality
June 5, 2018In the first act the company’s timing was occasionally off, but by Act II they were off and flying into the wild blue yonder.
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Patriarchy x 3: Two world premiere plays and an opera
May 31, 2018Last weekend I saw a play, an opera, then another play. Mulling over what to say about them, it struck me that they’re related.
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‘Soft Power’ imagines a Broadway musical under future Chinese hegemony
May 29, 2018It’s a fresh kind of show, open to interpretation, that makes us think self-reflectively about the entire history of the musical and its power to shape human consciousness.
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Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal retakes the stage
May 24, 2018Highly recommended! Especially if you are not so familiar with Wiesenthal, and more especially for younger audiences.
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