-
Theater: Trust
feature In David Schwimmer and Andy Bellin's new play, a 14-year-old teenaged girl is lured into meeting an older man who masquerades online as a 16-year-old.
feature -
Theater: The Addams Family
feature In the musical adaptation of Charles Addams' cartoon clan, the family is led by marquee stars Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth.
feature -
Theater: Stage Door
feature Its “remarkably prescient” counterattack on Hollywood makes Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s 1936 play especially ripe for revival.
feature -
Theater: La Cage aux Folles
feature Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge shine as longtime gay couple Georges and Albin in the new Broadway production of La Cage aux Folles.
feature -
Opera: Götterdämmerung
feature Achim Freyer’s production of the final installment of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle “has not been universally loved,” but I’m convinced that, over time, it will be celebrated, said Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times.
feature -
Stage: Ordinary Days
feature “Those who like to spot talented theatrical up-and-comers will want to check out Adam Gwon,” said Charles McNulty in the Los Angeles Times.
feature -
Exhibit of the week: James Castle: A Retrospective
feature The first major retrospective exhibit of James Castle's work may establish him as the ultimate “outsider artist.”
feature -
Theater: Aunt Dan and Lemon
feature Aunt Dan and Lemon gets “just the kind of carefully ambivalent yet wholly immersive handling it needs” from director Matthew Reeder, said Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune.
feature -
Stage: Oh, Coward!
feature For those who’ve forgotten “what an original voice” Coward was, Oh, Coward! is an excellent reminder, said Dennis Polkow in Newcity Chicago.
feature -
Exhibit of the week: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
feature The Getty Center exhibition shows how experts go about distinguishing drawings by Rembrandt from those created by his pupils and apprentices.
feature -
Stage: Palestine, New Mexico
feature The play contains kernels of several interesting ideas, but raises questions that remain unanswered.
feature -
Exhibit of the week: Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts From Britain to Chicago
feature An exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago traces the history of the Arts and Crafts movements in Britain and the U.S. by bringing together rarely shown masterpieces.
feature -
Opera: Carmen
feature Richard Eyre's successful reimagining of Carmen was a risky undertaking given the reaction of the Met's patrons to the changes Luc Bondy made in Tosca.
feature -
Stage: Race
feature Though Race has all the usual Mamet ingredients—a hot-button social issue, barbed one-liners, a corkscrew of a plot—the play is a bit hollow at the center.
feature