Playing Around

In 405 B.C., comic dramatist Aristophanes wrote The Frogs against the final stages of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. His [...]

What drew us to adapting the filthiest of Philip Roth’s novels? Its morality. Its tenderness. Its comic intensity. The deep exploration [...]

Melissa Errico, dressed to the shimmering nines, erupts into “Watch What Happens” (Michel Legrand) like a thoroughbred tearing through [...]

It’s not easy for us, today, to grasp how profoundly living through the First World War changed people’s attitudes toward sex. By the [...]

Filmed in the UK with outstanding creatives and cast, this production is a “revelation” even to author Maury Yeston, who is present at [...]

Frank Loesser’s “New Ashmolean Marching Society” begins this evening on an up note with merry piano styling. Seven love songs, one [...]

When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, the book was neither a critical nor a commercial success. Not until [...]

As celebrations of the Maria Callas centennial year continue, each commemorative event becomes even more profound and impactful when it is [...]