Rock legend Stevie Nicks performed a powerful new song last night that wowed the live audience and brought the house down. The October 12th show, the third in Saturday Night Live’s 50th season of 2024, was hosted by...
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Pauline Adamek
LA Opera’s “Madame Butterfly” reviewed
Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is a tragic opera in three acts, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. First performed in 1904, in this ill-fated love story we meet Cio-Cio-San, a young...
“Clarkston” presented by Echo Theater Company
In my twenty-five years of theater reviewing, time and again when I find myself less enthusiastic about a show, ninety-nine percent of the time the culprit is the writing. One would think that there’d be a higher...
Terry Morgan
A Noise Within presents “The Skin of Our Teeth”
Thornton Wilder’s 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, is an assuredly odd duck. It’s eighty-two years old but still seems postmodern with its frequent fourth-wall breaking, playfulness with time and...
City Garage presents a new play by Neil LaBute “If I Needed Someone”
Neil LaBute’s new two-hander play drops us right into a date-in-progress. The pair have drunkenly staggered back to one of the couple’s place to hang out after a night of drinking. “I’m not staying!” the woman (Jules...