The New York Times – Music:
César Alvarez’s ambitious new work is a mixed musical meal: It wants to be a call to revolutionary action but is surprisingly lacking in it.
Category: Theater (Off Broadway)
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‘Giulia’ Review: Jennifer Nettles Delivers Empowerment (and Poison)
The New York Times – Music:
A stirring but tonally muddled new musical about the “poison queen of Palermo” gets an elegant Off Broadway production.
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She Couldn’t Shake the Story of a Female Killer. Now It’s a Musical.
The New York Times – Music:
The Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles has written and is starring in a so-called “pop-eretta” titled “Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo.”
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Billy Porter and Wayne Brady Make a Tender Pair in ‘La Cage aux Folles’
The New York Times – Film:
Billy Porter and Wayne Brady make a tender pair in Robert O’Hara’s revival of the Harvey Fierstein-Jerry Herman musical farce.
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‘Are You Now or Have You Ever Been’ Review: Who Is Naming Names?
The New York Times – Film:
Anna D. Shapiro revives Eric Bentley’s play about the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigation of the entertainment industry.
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‘Girl, Interrupted’ Review: A Musical That’s a Little Too Tranquilized
The New York Times – Music:
While the 1999 movie went for melodrama, this stage adaptation with songs by Aimee Mann honors the memoir’s coolly clinical prose.
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‘Moby Dick’ Review: Robert Wilson’s Last Masterpiece
The New York Times – Music:
Wilson’s 2024 adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic, with music by the British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi, has a short run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Who Is Antigone? The 2500-Year-Old Rebel With a Cause.
The New York Times – Film:
“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?