Carmen Jones continues at Classic Stage Company, New York until 29 July 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Georges Bizet, Oscar Hammerstein II and John Doyle prove to be amazing collaborators. True, Bizet and Hammerstein have long left this earth, but the John Doyle-directed revival of Carmen Jones, which has just opened Off-Broadway at Classic […]
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Pacific Overtures – Classic Stage Company, New York
Pacific Overtures continues at Classic Stage Company, New York until 18 June. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If there’s such a thing as minimalist grandeur, director John Doyle achieves it with his rendering of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures. Doyle is capping his first season as artistic director of […]
Allegro – Classic Stage Company, New York
Allegro continues at Classic Stage Company, New York, until 14 December. “Of all the musicals I ever worked on that didn’t quite succeed,” Richard Rodgers writes in his autobiography Musical Stages, “Allegro is the one I think most worthy of a second chance.” Now that show is being given its second chance, thanks to director John […]
