Vanessa is spare and compelling in Heartbeat Opera’s production.
The vivacious MANON! at Heartbeat Opera makes a strong case for the return of opera in translation.
R.B. Schlather‘s shadowy production with Heartbeat Opera at the Williamstown Theatre Festival proves that Vanessa might be coming into its own at last
Only disordered and volcanic intellects need apply for this beautifully deranged production of Salome from Heartbeat Opera
Target Margin Theater proudly boasts that Show/Boat: A River, its small-scale and bare-bones staging of Show Boat (at the Skirball Center on Washington Square through the 26th), is a “bold reimagining” of the classic Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein show, a “new adaptation that explores America’s transformation from the Jim Crow 1880s to the Chicago of the Great Migration to the challenges of today,” but I don’t see it.
Double double, toil and trouble, y’all, and happy spooky season from Slaylem. (It’s like Salem, but fun.)
But pressing questions remains: Why? Who is this Figaro for?
If it didn’t all work, it wouldn’t work at all.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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