BWW Reviews: DARK SISTERS Might Surprise YouNovember 21, 2011DARK SISTERS, the new opera about a polygamist family with music by Nico Muhly, and libretto by Stephen Karam, takes a cue from the recent trial of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs. Mainstream Mormonism and its polygamist roots have become popular topics of late, visible everywhere from the Republican primary to Broadway to television shows like HBO's Big Love and TLC's Sister Wives. Nonetheless, DARK SISTERS succeeds in its careful rendering of the well-trod subject of polygamy - the opera soars on its own merits (Muhly's beautiful score and Karam's well-chosen images) without devolving into cult fetishism.
BWW Reviews: CLOSER at The Seeing Place, Thru 10/9September 29, 2011The young ensemble theater company The Seeing Place returns this season with Patrick Marber's 1997, four-person melodrama, CLOSER, about the complexities of sexual relationships in the pre-dawn of social media.
Madison Theatre Guild Presents THE SPITFIRE GRILL, 12/3November 29, 2010THE SPITFIRE GRILL will be presented by Four Seasons Theatre in partnership with Madison Theatre Guild December 3-18, 2010 in the Drury Theatre. Music and Book are by James Valcq with Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley.