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"OEDIPUS:" The Candidate Self-Smeared
Oedipus is a tough one.
Dec 30, 2025
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"SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS:" Match me, Sidney
I walked into MasterVoices’ recent concert revival of the musical Sweet Smell of Success at Jazz @ L.C.’s Rose Theater carrying a lot of baggage; or…
Dec 13, 2025
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"QUEEN OF VERSAILLES:" The Country Takes A Bow
I called Stephen Schwartz to talk about Queen of Versailles after I saw it.
Dec 6, 2025
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"LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD:" Grasping For Life Behind A Screen
Sometimes you turn up the TV to hear better; other times, to hear better, you just turn it off.
Nov 28, 2025
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"BAT BOY:" A Bloody Fountain of Youth
I am not really the audience for Bat Boy: The Musical, so I’m writing about its recent high-octane revival at Encores! as an outsider looking in — kinda…
Nov 17, 2025
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"ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS:" Sing Out Loramentum
Oratorio for Living Things, by the recently-MacArthur-awarded composer Heather Christian, has its own antecedents but is still unlike almost anything…
Nov 13, 2025
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"RAGTIME:" NOW!
The devastating new production of Ragtime that just opened at Lincoln Center Theater has hurled me back in time to the original Ragtime, which I first…
Nov 3, 2025
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TROUBLE? Right Here in River City?
We are back.
Oct 13, 2025
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