394 stories by "Susan Galbraith"
Flute, fiddle, and guitar sounds emanate from a corner tucked in the wings of the Folger stage setting up a kind of folk music-and-theatre production style. Suddenly the stage world grows da…
Philip Glass has been called by some the greatest living composer. His new work, Appomattox, received a world premiere in its expanded and revised state by Washington National Opera on S…
 Women's rituals, eco-spirituality, shamanism, and Celtic wisdom are the themes in Sandra Kammann's self-produced offering for the Women's Voices in Theater Festival. The unabashed celebr…
There is a Carmen for everyone. This production of Georges Bizet's opera is from South African townships around Capetown welded by the most spirited Isango Ensemble. They have made the work …
On October 13th, we were treated to the debut of a bold new work, visually stunning and emotionally powerful. Yaël Farber has conceived, adapted and directed a fitting "crown" to the Wome…
Pulsing music from a string quartet becomes a cinematic soundtrack to footage of green water swiftly flowing. The images change to handlebars while on stage a seated man pedals the air, the …
We are in full swing of the Women's Voices in Theatre Festival with some mighty impressive entries having led out of the gate. We have Artistic Director Molly Smith in great part to thank fo…
If opera is meant to be a true synthesis, bringing together the many art forms of music, singing, dance, acting, and the visual arts, then Washington National Opera's Carmen has created a sm…
As the title of one of last of Mozart's operas suggests about women, "so do they all," indeed! How perfect then to set this young lovers' romp in the hedonistic, cynical and self-referential…
NextStop Theatre Company presents Cole Porter’s classic American musical Kiss Me Kate as the first show in its third professional season. Already, the company has produced several poli…
It takes only a few seconds of flickering light to find oneself anticipating the delicate magic of the early film animation of Lotte Reiniger. And then musician Tom Teasley intervenes, launc…
I interviewed Eric Owens, the world-renowned bass-baritone, in the beautiful surroundings of Glimmerglass Festival. He had just come off a performance of Verdi's Macbeth two nights before an…
On this the fortieth anniversary of the Glimmerglass Festival, Artistic Director Francesca Zambello has delivered to us two big valentines of shows: Mozart's much beloved work The Magic Flut…
The general understanding in theatre is that there is a curse on Shakespeare's Scottish play. I wonder in Anne Bogart's new operatic production at Glimmerglass Festival, despite some wonderf…
There is something very special about attending the premiere of a great work, where all discoveries happen in real time. Saturday evening the energy was electrifying, filled with gasps and e…
Two giants were in fulsome display at Glimmerglass Festival on Saturday, both alike in dignity: the notorious RBG (Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and Roman Republic's own Cato th…
With Scalia/Ginsburg, Derrick Wang’s delightful mash of an opera, the composer shamelessly steals from almost every major composer and switches styles with alacrity, even setting some …
The highly anticipated first entrance of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to deliver what has become her signature off-the-bench talk, "Law in Opera," begins off-stage left where a slight, frail …
Once has been more than once a phenomenon, first as a runaway independent film then as an unlikely Broadway hit winning eight of eleven nominated Tony Awards, including Best Musical. I'll sa…
It appears that director Carol Spring, Artistic Director Elizabeth Dapo, and the Half Mad Theatre Company have garnered some very positive attention locally, so it beats me why this show lef…
Wanderlust Company serves up Shakespeare with a whole lot of spirit and energy, and so fast and furious the effect is like riding a high-speed roller coaster on acid. Pairing down cast and s…
"Some birds can't see beyond the tips of their bills!" That line got the audience giggling at three bullying ducklings with attitude " Flap, Waddle and Ducky. It nailed the essence of the ne…
–Â Alliance for New-Music Theater was invited to bring Kafka’s Metamorphosis to this year’s Prague Fringe Festival. Susan Galbraith takes us there as a Fringe goer and p…
Gioachino Rossini's comic opera, La Cenerentola, here titled Cinderella, is full of vibrantly-colored costumes, wild wigs, a thrilling gallop of a score, charming voices, and delightfully ca…
Theatre is constantly reinventing itself. Playwrights and directors are pushing for the "total surround experience" as a refresh of old ideas and to attract new and younger audiences. This w…
