At the Jan. 24, 1835 premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's final opera, "I Puritani," the air was thick with cutthroat competition, a mangled marriage proposal and a killer cough. Such drama! And that was just backstage. So it goes in Terrence McNally's "Golden Age," an affectionate but frustrating dramedy about love, creativity and mortality.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM on December 4, 2012