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Boris Godunov

Civic Opera House,

Chicago

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(312) 419-0033

“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.