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‘Brooklyn’ Subtext Missing, But Its Exuberance Is Intact

By Martin Jones Westlin | July 23, 2017 |

The search for our identities sometimes takes us outside our own sphere, especially amid our youth — and Leigh Scarritt Productions’ exuberant ‘Brooklyn the Musical’ illustrates the joy inherent in that vital discovery.

‘Evening’s Performance’ Is Hopelessly Underdone, Desperately Out of Touch

By Martin Jones Westlin | July 18, 2017 |

If ‘At This Evening’s Performance’ is to be believed, at least one totalitarian autocracy lives and dies by its bathhouses, its radish exports and its state theater. That’s the problem with North Coast Repertory Theatre’s turn at this supposed farce — you can’t believe a word of it.

Opera NEO’s Avalanche of Arias

By Ken Herman | July 17, 2017 |

As Opera NEO Artistic Director Peter Kozma welcomed Saturday’s (July 15) audience to his company’s season-opening Aria Marathon program, he offered his humorous take on the event. “Aria Marathon—or as some call it, death by aria!”

Musical Theatre, Marx Brothers Style

By David Dixon | July 16, 2017 |

Only a select few pre-1943 musicals have been revived in the 21st century so far. The shows that continue to be staged are typically produced if there is still the potential to attract modern audiences.