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‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ treats disability, poverty, cruelty with dark humor

February 21, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

I found myself not understanding every word uttered, but after a while not caring, for McDonagh clearly finds joy purely in the gift of language itself.

‘Champion: An Opera in Jazz’ about boxer Emile Griffith, set for Montreal staging

January 22, 2019 By Gabe Falsetta

I can only hope that there will be funding in the near future to bring a production of this magnificent work to New York City, so I can see it again.

‘1776 The Musical’ vocalizes the urgency of the Declaration of Independence

January 16, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Now is your chance to “be in the room where it actually happened,” Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, in the stiflingly hot months from May 8 to July 4, 1776.

‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Mario the Magician’ staged in authentic Hungarian productions

November 16, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

The Hungarian State Opera and Hungarian National Ballet recently paid a first visit to the United States for its American debut performances of several signature works.

Fountain Theatre explores disability in Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Cost of Living’

November 13, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps more than anything, Cost of Living examines the human need for one another, and what we do to get what that need demands of us.