Boris Godunov
Civic Opera House,
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“Nature may not have endowed Ferruccio Furlanetto with a big, black Slavic-style bass,” said the Chicago Tribune. Yet the Italian singer makes the role of a conflicted 17th-century czar his own, proving to be “a superb interpreter” of Mussorgsky’s “complex and contradictory anti-hero.”
The Golden Dragon
Studio Theatre
Washington, D.C.
(202) 332-3300
Playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig isn’t afraid to “reveal the seamier side of a shrinking planet,” said the Washington Blade. His new comedy is set in a German apartment building and its tiny pan-Asian restaurant, and none of the lives that intersect there are readily forgotten.
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Curious Theatre Co.
Denver
(303) 623-0524
It’s hard to imagine a stranger premise than a “comic romp set against the horror of the 2007 Minneapolis bridge disaster,” said The Denver Post. By juxtaposing that event with a crumbling marriage, Allison Moore nearly creates a “compelling treatise” on embracing uncertainty. She just needs to rein in the sitcom-style zaniness.
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If/Thenfeature Tony-winning Idina Menzel “looks and sounds sensational” in a role tailored to her talents.
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Rocky
feature It’s a wonder that this Rocky ever reaches the top of the steps.
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Love and Information
feature Leave it to Caryl Churchill to create a play that “so ingeniously mirrors our age of the splintered attention span.”
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The Bridges of Madison County
feature Jason Robert Brown’s “richly melodic” score is “one of Broadway’s best in the last decade.”
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Outside Mullingar
feature John Patrick Shanley’s “charmer of a play” isn’t for cynics.
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The Night Alive
feature Conor McPherson “has a singular gift for making the ordinary glow with an extra dimension.”
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No Man’s Land
feature The futility of all conversation has been, paradoxically, the subject of “some of the best dialogue ever written.”
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The Commons of Pensacola
feature Stage and screen actress Amanda Peet's playwriting debut is a “witty and affecting” domestic drama.