Michael Mayer’s Faux-Archaeologists Can’t Rescue His Entombed ‘Aida’ at the Met Mayer’s weak attempt to address opera’s recent struggles with its history of fetishization of “exotic” cultures adds nothing to the production. By Christopher Corwin
Review: Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga’s ‘Macbeth’ Is Chic but Incomprehensible At Longacre Theatre featuring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, director Sam Gold takes on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Incoherent yet star-studded. By David Cote
A Star Among the Stars, Cecily Strong Searches for Intelligent Life Wagner’s message is a simple but deeply humanistic one: We’re all specks in the universe, random, unknowable bio-containers, and who knows where my atoms end and yours begin? By David Cote