Don’t think for a minute that she’ll give you any of that Je ne veux pas dejeuner stuff.

Rigoletto's so direct and so fast paced, it’s as if the bel canto world of Bellini and Rosetti never happened.

If you support feminism, does that mean you support porn?

'Wicked' leaves you leaving the theater with a spring in your step and a slightly bigger heart, which is a taller order than all the green “ozmopolitans” offered at the bar during intermission

Zilah Mendoza’s nuanced performance of Odessa stands alone; so many threads of so many people run through this character and Mendoza does justice to them all.

These old timey shoppes are taken straight out of Streisand’s 2010 book "My Passion for Design", which one imagines the diva dictating and photographing while in an extremis Martha Stewart moment.

Seventeen different voices, each with a different perspective, sketch out unexpected boundaries of moral culpability in Oakland.

Only afterwards does it dawn on you that your mind was transported from one place to another along such a smooth continuum that you arrived where you intended with only a limited sense of how you got there.

“Chopin is the angel of all pianists,” says Felder, “he really was able to take piano to new heights that hadn’t been seen before him. All these years later, we still strive to create the magic that he supposedly created at the instrument... it’s really ethereal."

The Naked Empire Buffoon Company (Sabrina Wensky and Cara McClendon) could give John Belushi’s killer bees a run for their money. These two combine the petulance of an ill-mannered child with the wiles of a Chechen terrorist.