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Review: THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT at Theatre Artists Studio


by Herbert Paine - December 16, 2025

Theatre Artists Studio’s THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT is a whirlwind of wit, whimsy, and moral purpose. An imaginative, brisk, and highly entertaining staging....

Review: WHO’S HOLIDAY! at National Broadway Theatre


by Brian Hilbrand - December 16, 2025

A story, although not written by Seuss, is an after-story of sorts, detailing what happens the night after Cindy Lou Who meets the Grinch, who, interestingly enough, and without giving too much away, end up getting married.  The wild and crazy events that go down as a result of that are nothing shor...

Review: FROZEN at Manatee Performing Arts Center


by Jacob Ruscoe - December 16, 2025

Manatee Performing Arts Center’s production of Frozen under the direction of Rick Kerby, is a theatrical delight that captures the heart, spectacle, and magic that have made this story a modern classic. From its cinematic origins to its Broadway evolution, Frozen has always relied on technical wizar...

Review Roundup: What Did The Critics Think Of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY at the Ambassadors Theatre?


by Aliya Al-Hassan - December 16, 2025

James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are… Inspired by the iconic, terrifying film series, Paranormal Activity is a new story live on stage. What did the critics think?...

Review: RENT at New Village Arts


by ErinMarie Reiter - December 16, 2025

'Rent' is a show I quite literally grew up with, lyrics memorized and belted years before I had any idea what Collins meant by “Stoli.” To say I have a soft spot for it is an understatement. Which also makes 'Rent' tricky. Beyond its now-legendary mythology, its original cast,  its cultural impact, ...

Review: CHRISTMAS WITH CANTUS at Artistry Theater, Bloomington Center For The Arts


by Jared Fessler - December 16, 2025

What did our critic think of CHRISTMAS WITH CONTUS at Artistry Theater, Bloomington Center For The Arts?...

Review: Gold Dust Orphans Sprinkle Holiday Fun with SWEENEY CLAUS: THE DEMON FATHER OF SLEET STREET


by R. Scott Reedy - December 16, 2025

What did our critic think of SWEENEY CLAUS: THE DEMON FATHER OF FLEET STREET at Iron Wolf Theatre, South Boston Lithuanian Citizens Association?...

Review: THE IMAGINING BY AMARI MARSHALL at Powerhouse Arts


by Gabby Ziccarelli - December 16, 2025

What did our critic think of THE IMAGINING BY AMARI MARSHALL at Powerhouse Arts? Marshall delivers something that truly feels brand new: an immersive, in-the-round dance celebration that positions movement not as an accoutrament, but the main attraction....

Review: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Ambassadors Theatre


by Franco Milazzo - December 15, 2025

London is a city built on ghosts. Romans, plague pits, abandoned Tube stations and the collective memory of audiences who still shudder about The Woman in Black. There’s even a theatre supposedly inhabited by a ghost dolphin called Flipper....

Review: PRINCESS LOCKEROOO’S THE NUTWAACKER at The Guggenheim Museum


by Gabby Ziccarelli - December 15, 2025

Presented by Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Princess Lockerooo’s The NutWAACKer a seasonal reimagining that also serves as a declaration: dance is art, street styles belong on the world’s most revered stages, and in movement born of resistance, we find freedom....

Past Shows

Salome
5/25 - 6/23/2013


Since the world premiere in 1905 has just been all regissørers challenge. So Salome created scandal when, Stefan Herheims production both genierklært and debated at ...

Tornerose
6/6 - 6/21/2013


Sleeping beauty is one of the great classics of the ballet repertoire. Ever since the premiere in St. Petersburg in 1890, the dancing Princess Enchanted ...

Khairos
5/10 - 5/29/2013


Composer Knut Vaage and librettist Torgeir Pedersen Rebolledo newly written Khairos is a contemporary on & offshore-opera about a man with a hypersensitivity to sounds. ...

The Deserted Island
4/28 - 5/5/2013


Joseph Haydn is not very well known as an opera composer, but his collection of 24 operas contain several masterpieces. One of them is L'sola ...

Kylián Different Shores
4/12 - 5/3/2013


Here's how easily a night in Ji?í Kyliáns the world behaves. Again, we can base ourselves to a show signed the Czech choreographer who revolutionized ...

Robin Hood
3/22 - 4/27/2013


Daniel discovers suddenly that hero from the computer game Robin Hood is in his room. The game that his father has made, becomes magical when ...


Coral Chorale is a performance created specifically for children between zero and three years. Here they are enticed by the sounds into a skjellformet tent ...


True to tradition, ends the ballet school school year with student performance. About 100 dancers aged 6 – 16 shows new choreography in classical ballet, ...


Seething temperament and strong emotions are in play in these two operas in which we are invited on a journey to Sicily's hot-blooded universe of ...

Over hodet under huden
3/22 - 4/15/2013


Raw movements, high tempo and strong dancers. There are some of the ingredients in Cina Espejords new works. She lets herself be inspired by individuals ...

Operalaboratoriet
3/15 - 3/17/2013


Here to invite composers to develop new expressions and concepts with Opera Lab's resources. Sometimes the experiment itself is the finished product, other times brought ...

Spring Fever
2/15 - 3/16/2013


Something daring to invite to våryrhet in February, you say? It can be so, but we believe now even that hearts will beat for dancing ...

Motown Revisited
3/7 - 3/10/2013


Since the beginning of the Motown era's music style influenced artists from almost all the world's continents. Show Motown Revisited takes you back to the ...

Tryllefløyten
2/15 - 2/17/2013


Opera Nordfjord has been established as an opera company since 1998 and had his own opera house in 2009. Now customers of the Norwegian Opera ...

Avenida Corrientes
2/5 - 2/8/2013


Avenida Corrientes is Alan Lucien island's tragicomic play from the dance world. Here is Theatre, dance and documentary film. We meet the famous German choreographer ...

Don Pasquale
1/17 - 2/3/2013


After the premiere of Don Pasquale in 1843, Donizetti was commended for its ability to capture the essence of opera buffa genre, thus winning his ...

Heksehammeren
2/1 - 2/2/2013


Song power Berlevåg is an organization that aims to create a stronger song culture in their region, and has among other things established Finnmark Operakor. ...

Die Fledermaus
12/1 - 1/31/2013


In the Norwegian Opera and Ballet's new production of Die Fledermaus (the Bat), we find ourselves in the company of the nouveau riche of New ...


Get ready for something completely new! Carte Blanche, the Norwegian national company of contemporary dance, presents the cream of the choreographic undergrowth. Yaniv Cohen, Núria ...

The Rape of Lucretia
1/10 - 1/26/2013


"A startling notion of a strong, raw and topical theme. It is a party to hear a solistensemble so unified and sovereign (...) The English ...


Singing Lieder is like walking in a meadow of flowers, "says Angelika Kirchschlager, one of Europe's most acclaimed mezzo-soprano singers. With its large, supple voice ...

The Nutcracker
12/5 - 12/18/2012


Every year before Christmas, the Norwegian National Ballet stages Peter Tsjaikovskij's Nutckracker, a Christmas ballet for the whole family. This classic is full of magic, ...

Mesteraften 2012
11/3 - 11/18/2012


Mesteraften 2012 offers three monumental works from the world of dance. "A choreographic jewel", "aesthetic”, and "brilliant" are recurring terms used in descriptions of George ...


In this production of Madama Butterfly, director Stephen Langridge sets the story in Japan during the Second World War. American soldiers occupy the country. It ...

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