Review: Strauss’s ARABELLA Has the Music and the Singers—and Old Vienna—at the Met
by Richard Sasanow - November 12, 2025
For all those operagoers tired of classics set in rodeos, Las Vegas or on a space station (Paris has a BOHEME of that ilk), Otto Schenk’s production for ARABELLA, with stage design by Gunther Schneider Siemssen, dating back to 1983, will be a relief. It features a return to “old Vienna,” including a...
Review: THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON at Canadian Stage
by Ilana Lucas - November 12, 2025
“Since we surveyed, mapped, explored, and planted a flag,” writes Robert Lepage in his director’s note to THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON, “our interest in the moon seems to have greatly diminished.” Lepage, however, believes that, while it may no longer be as much of an enigma, the moon will never lose it...
Review: LIE LOW at Solas Nua
by Rachael F. Goldberg - November 12, 2025
'Lie Low' leans into the dark absurdity of life and the things that go wrong. Smyth’s script and the Solas Nua team show a thoughtful understanding of humanity in their work, and connect with audiences with that authenticity – and a few cheeky jokes....
Review: FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE at The Gamm Theatre
by Christopher Verleger - November 11, 2025
The man and woman featured in Gamm Theatre’s marvelous, endearing production of Terrence McNally’s 1982 play, “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” are both unmistakably struck by Cupid’s arrow, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ready or even expected to live happily ever after....