Saturday, November 29, 2025

ARABELLA – REVIEW OF 2025 LIVE IN HD FROM THE MET PRODUCTION

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  Reviewed by James Karas For the current production of Richard Strauss’s Arabella, the Metropolitan Opera reached back to Otto Schenk’s 19...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) – REVIEW OF 2025 PRODUCTION AT TARRAGON THEATRE

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Reviewed by James Karas   a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun ) is the long and pretentiously uncapitalized t...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

WHITE CHRISTMAS - REVIEW OF 2025 SHAW FESTIVAL PRODUCTION

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Reviewed by James Karas The Shaw Festival continues with its laudable holiday season. This year it is again mounting the perennial favorit...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS - REVIEW OF 2025 PRODUCTION AT CAA THEATRE

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Reviewed by James Karas In 1986 English writer Peter Evans received a phone call from Ava Gardner – at 3:00 a.m., she invited him to ghost...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

LA BOHEME – REVIEW OF 2025 LIVE FROM THE MET IN HD TRANSMISSION

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Reviewed by James Karas   Puccini’s La Bohème is back on a theatre screen near you. If you do not see it, it is your loss. It is a gorgeo...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

DISSONANT SPECIES – REVIEW OF 2025 PRODUCTION BY THEATRE GARGANTUA AT FACTORY THEATRE

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Reviewed by James Karas The title Dissonant Species may have the benefit of honesty, assuming it refers to humankind, and much of the mus...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

THE COMEUPPANCE – REVIEW OF 2025 PRODUCTION BY SOULPEPPER

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Reviewed by James Karas The Comeuppance by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is about four high school friends, classmates gathered for a pre-reun...