Raised as Vehicles of Vengeance, Offspring Fall in Love Instead in Bx Opera “Poisoned Kiss” NYFOS Issues Rich & Varied “Invitation to the Dance” Conversations–Eric Hafen Prepare to Love Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis & Co in the Gershwins’ “Porgy & Bess” NJSO–Estamos en “Fuego” Met’s New “Enchanted Island” Pastiche Proves an Enchanted Evening After All Edwin McCain and his Band play the House of Blues in Orlando NYGASP’s “Pirates” Kicks As-pirations West Side Opera Society’s Impassioned December 16 “Il Trovatore” Will Benefit LGBT Youth S'Wonderful S'FABULOUS: Sue Matsuki & Edd Clark’s Christmas Show “Carols and Lullabies” – Harmonium in Winter Adele at Royal Albert Hall & Lady Gaga at Madison Square Garden on New DVDs NYC Gay Men’s Chorus Shares Ecumenical Love & Song in Stirring Holiday Concert “Swingin’ Christmas” with NY Pops State Theatre Gets Holiday “Stokes-man” STNJ’s “A Christmas Carol” is a Revelation Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” Sees the Light at Dicapo In “QUOtets,” Queer Urban Orchestra Presents Fine Chamber Music in Informal Setting Met’s Feel-Good “Fille du Régiment” Returns to Repertoire with Striking New Principals Downtown Music Productions & Mimi Stern-Wolfe Remember Work of Musicians Lost to AIDS & Introduce Documentary by Rohan Spong GSP’s “Nutcracker and I” is Guilty Holiday Pleasure Luna's “Mi Casa Tu Casa” is Outrageous Family Fun Big Apple Corps Tackles the Great American Songbook in Spirited Concert Bass-Baritones Anchor Collegiate Chorale’s Rossini Rarity “Moïse et Pharaon,” But Sopranos Cause Considerable Stir In the Matter of Gounod Work’s New Trappings in Opernheim, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying Why “Faust” Looks like “Dr. Atomic,” with His Bomb ‘Oy, Tannenbaum, Oy, Tannenbaum:’ NYFOS Wishes Us ‘A Goyishe Christmas’ Richard II–Tragedie Tonight Harmonia Mundi Gives You the World NY Pops Presents Cheyenne Jackson!—at Carnegie Hall   “Over the River” Shows that Blood is Thicker than Gravy   White Christmas—Bringing Berlin Home for the Holidays   Shankar’s East Meets West: Ravi Shankar–New Releases from East Meets West NYFOS’ “Manning the Canon” is a Triumph Hottest Club is “Cotton Club Parade” at City Center! Not All Student Movements Are Created Equal, in New Davies “Kommilitonen!”—a Work of Hymns, Chants & Apt Dissonance Conversations – Peter Scolari Budapest String Quartet’s Beethoven, Jan DeGaetani & Gilbert Kalish, & Susanna Phillips & Myra Huang’s “Paysages,” All on Bridge Records Imaginary Johnny’s “Dig” CD Met Enjoys First-Rate Revival of “Rodelinda” OONY Opens Season with “Adriana,” a Night for Diva Worshippers Muhly & Karam’s “Dark Sisters” Makes for Beautiful & Disturbing Probe of Mormon Sect Miracle on 37th Street–NYFOS Next Soars QUO Musically Probes the Heroic & Its Opposite, with Jacqueline Jonée as Guest FI Pines Takes Theatre in Manhattan in Gould-Wechter-Arbelo “Little House on the Ferry” In Met’s New “Siegfried,” Near-Exemplary Performances End in Chaos NYFOS Charts a Musical Journey from the Amazon Rain Forest to England, Catalonia to Brooklyn in “In the Memory Palace” Folks Who Live in Compartments Get Physical in New Met “Don Giovanni” “Mockingbird” Sings at STNJ Cymbals & Symbols Punctuate Rachael Elliott’s “Polka the Elk” CD “It Shoulda Been You”–Brand NEW Musical Premieres Cyndi Lauper Loves Memphis Blues Audra McDonald Enthralls Carnegie Audience with Songs Old & New; Plugs Marriage Equality & End to Bullying Met “Bolena” Stirs, but Lacks Bel Canto Approach—2 Felled by Colds Are Replaced Midway through Performance Reviewed Lučić & Guleghina, as Father & False Daughter, Head Stirring Met “Nabucco” Cast All the “Newsies” Fit to Print Divas Chenoweth & Estefan Field New CDs: One That Makes You Pensive, the Other That Makes You Want to Dance “Busted: the Musical,” Performed & Written by Bianca Leigh, Is Presented by Theatre Askew Saving the Best for “Last” Pearl’s “Bald Soprano” Sings Tenn Turns 100 with "Suddenly" Moor Moor Moor–“Othello” at STNJ Mx. Bond Meditates, Meanderingly, in “Tango” “Complete” and THEN Some: “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged]” Broadway @ Beach Season Finale, on Labor Day, Stars Sarah Rice & Telly Leung Grove “Glay” Gives Charming New Twist to Jukebox Musical Concept FIPAP’s “Guys & Dolls,” Loesser’s Paean to By-Gone, Louche NY, Makes a Helluva Show “Ninety Miles” is Far, Near and Must Hear Giulio Gari Foundation Gala, on September 18, Recalls Versatile Tenor & Rewards & Encourages Young Singers New Music by Dmitri Tymoczko & Arlene Sierra Comes from Bridge Records Cabaret Friends, from Bway@Beach, Remember Singer David Gurland Robbyne Demyse Kaamil Proves the “Raw & Real” Deal for APCG “Accidental” Has Great Purpose “Dendrophile”–Natural Love McNight, McDay, Sharon’s the One “Timon” Tied Capturing the Dreamy, Devastating & Recovery in Adler “Reverie” & “Reflections” Recordings Collegiate Chorale Releases Delightful “Knickerbocker Holiday” Recording 3 New CDs Raise the Ceiling/Roof Devin Richards, Broadway’s Powerful Bass, Headlines Season’s 2nd Bway @ Beach In “Ocean Aires 13: molto misterioso,” Musicians Create Eerie Atmosphere to Accompany Great Music-Making “Better & Better,” & Best “Vixen” is Cunning Stunning Summer Fun O Those “Midsummer” Nights Brandon Cutrell & Ray Fellman Field Dynamite Bway @ the Beach Opening Night Eckdahl & Huang Make “Parallel Journeys” at Tenri It’s a “Crime (Cabaret)” What Wilson Weinberg & Kolczynski Do! “Harriet’s Return” Is at Luna for Juneteenth The Exquisite Eliane Elias: the “Light My Fire” CD Launch Concert Shakespeare Theatre of NJ “Misanthrope” Thrills Going Wilde with “No Importance,” Now at 4th Wall Lady Gaga Takes Us on a Journey in “Born This Way:” CD Yields Treasures beyond the Obvious Ones Tubby, Todd & Tevye, Great Gandalf, Grand Canyon & Mighty Casey Take Turns Center Stage at Big Apple Corps Concert In “2 Steps Forward,” John Philip Continues Tale of Josh & His 2 Dads & Adds to Their Extended Family on a Significant Election Day Darius de Haas & Steven Blier Celebrate, con Brio, Their Bridge CD, “Quiet Please” DiDonato’s Composer & Kim’s Zerbinetta Steal the Thunder in Met “Ariadne,” Led by Luisi Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” with David Daniels & Kate Royal, Makes Welcome Met Return “New World” Sings at Edison Valley Playhouse NY Pops Has High Hope Conversations–James Ludwig Conversations–Mark Hoebee Love “I Hate Hamlet” All Hail “God of Carnage” — Now at George Street Playhouse Paper Mill's “Curtains” Closes Stellar Season Love & Betrayal, Ritual & Revenge, in Intense MSM Falla Pairing Hot and Cool: Eliane Elias' Soundtrack for Summer “A Chorus Line” is still the ONE “Tallest Building” Taller Tale Met’s Unlovable New Wagner “Ring” Continues with “Walküre” Lady Gaga Wows Orlando with Monster Ball: Reveals New Album Cover for “Born This Way” Max Raabe’s Time Travel Spirit Is Willing in Schwartz’ “Séance,” Now at NYCO Scintillating Stephen Schwartz–Defying Gravity at NYCO Force Masur–NY Philharmonic at NJPAC The Sorrow of “Sumeida’s Song” Blier & de Haas Will Give “Quiet Please” CD Launch Concert at Merkin on April 28 Clenny & West Side Give “Pirata” to Aid Japan “James Adler & Friends” Concert Shows Sensitivity of Virtuoso Pianist, Composer & Colleague Now IS the Time–Lorber’s Best “An Affirmative Act” Says Yes to Equality Betty Buckley Sings Songs of Broadway, By Request, with Seth Rudetsky Featured Boys of Summer Come Out in “Take Me Out” Sorrows of Poor Wozzeck Return to Met Graphically, under Levine’s Baton NY Philharmonic Invites in Company in Style Tilson Thomas, with Blazer, Hensley & NY Philharmonic, Pays Heart-Warming Tribute to His Grandparents, ‘The Thomashefskys,’ Titans of Yiddish Theater O’Hara, Kaiser & Blier, Celebrating Kern, Make NYFOS’ ‘Fine Romance’ Très Gala Strauss’ Operatic Swan Song, Conversational “Capriccio,” Contemplates Primacy of Music or of Words, with Fleming Heading Fantastic Met Cast “The Fox” ROCKS at George Street Playhouse Conversations—with Mohammed Fairouz NYCO New ‘Monodramas’: Won’t You Play that Angst-filled, then Hypnotic Melody? ESPA’s Winter Heat is HOT Indeed Lanford Wilson 1937-2011 Gay Men’s Chorus & Bway’s Christopher Sieber Welcome Us to Diverse 3rd Annual Sing-Along Rossinians Fling out High Notes, Get Physical in Met’s Merry New Romp, “Comte Ory” Conversations with John Garry Cahill’s “Charm” Opens at Shakespeare Theatre in Orlando: Original Play Follows Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” Heroine Inspiration “Spamalot” Serves Heaping Helping of Fun “Rheingold” Gods on Wires Defy Gravity, as Set Snakes & Slithers, to Open New Met “Ring” Composer Lee Hoiby, February 17, 1926-March 28, 2011 MSM Srs Give US Premiere of Paisiello’s Concise “Nina,” Tale of Woe with Upbeat Ending Charming, Well-Sung “Elisir,” Updated to ’50s, Set in Southwest, Opens NYCO Spring Season Paper Mill’s ‘Forum’ Vogt of Confidence O’Hara, Gunn & Sperling Enjoy ‘A Perfect Night for Love’ Duets with the NY Philharmonic Intrigue, Anarchy & Sabotage Gone Awry Are Concerns of New “Secret Agent” Opera, by Dellaira & McClatchy Divine and Winsome Are Words for the Encores! “Where’s Charley?” Englishman in New-ark–Richard Thompson at NJPAC San Francisco Symphony's Many Facets Who Put the Wit in “Wittenberg” Mastro of the House–A Conversation with Michael Mastro NYFOS’ Blier & Barrett & Caramoor’s Rising Stars Give Grand & Varied Tour of “Spanish Gold” in Song “According to Goldman” at Alliance Rep 1st National Touring Company of “Wicked” Performs Jazz Cabaret, “Our Wicked Romance,” in Orlando The GREAT Judy Garland Met Offers Formidable Tchaikovsky “Queen,” Starring Zajick, Mattila & Galouzine Singing at Central Synagogue, Collegiate Chorale Remembers the Holocaust Philadelphia Flower Show Celebrates “Springtime in Paris” No Biz—Broadway, Porn, Escorting, Restoring—Like Show Biz, in Tom Judson’s Diverse, Hot, Musical—& Sweet—“Canned Ham” at Dixon Place “Distracted” is Riveting NY Pops’ Steven Reineke Introduces New Work & Bway’s Tituss Burgess Tells Tuba’s Tale at Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps’ Spring Concert OONY Returns to Rarities with “L’Africaine,” Given with Grandeur Dessay, Calleja & Company Deliver Dynamic Met “Lucia” Conversations–Stephanie Zimbalist Water Music–Thai One On Phonographs and Poppies Classic Epic Tale “Beowulf,” with a New Twist opens at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre “Saint”’s Alive! Dicapo Takes Us Down to “Bleecker Street” to Celebrate Menotti’s Centennial Music World Remembers Shirley Verrett, May 31, 1931-November 5, 2010 Armida Wants Your Love & She’ll Have Her Revenge & It’s Bound to Be a Bad Romance Kate Baldwin Is Having a Baby, Has Moved to Brooklyn, & Sings about These for American Songbook Two Toe-Tapping Hours of Nostalgia NYFOS Family Recording is Double the Pleasure Working, Playing, & Lost in Dreamland, by Night and by Day, with NYFOS Raúl Esparza Pays Tribute, with Heart, to Broadway & to His Cuban Roots Met Moves Back Centuries, from “Nixon” to “Iphigénie,” with Winter Taking Toll on Cast “Bartered Bride” Returns, Triumphant in First Met & Juilliard Joint Effort “Roses” Rises at George Street NLT’s “Proof” is the Real Thing “News, News, News, News:” “Nixon” Lands at the Met at Last Getting ‘Lost in the Stars’ & Weeping along with Weill & Anderson’s Work, at Encores! Beethoven 9th, at Carnegie, Benefits Beleaguered Indus Valley Flood Victims Wilson’s “West Street Gang” Lives Anew, Brings Back an Era of Bashing by Bryant & Friends Exotic “South Pacific” Warms Winter's Worst Victoria Clark, Norm Lewis, & Rob Fisher Giving Gershwin Inside & Central Park in the Snow Outside—How Much Higher Class in New York Can You Get? Conversations–Jodi Kimura “The Little Dog” Isn't the Only One Laughing Collegiate Chorale Takes a “Knickerbocker Holiday,” with Weill Melodies for Kelli O’Hara, Ben Davis & Victor Garber “Quiet Please” Sings Out Loud: de Haas Has the Touch “Putnam County” Spells S-U-C-C-E-S-S for Paper Mill Accurate Brief Compleat—Shakespeare at EVP “Misanthrope” is a Pearl of Show Hvorostovsky is Dignified New Doge in Met “Boccanegra” Funny Fannys in 4th Wall Fête Spring Springs into Morristown–NJSO’s Best of Water ‘Still Life,’ Still’d Lives Bronx Opera Shows Why “Fra Diavolo” Was Hot in Its Day; Soprano Trovato Is a Find Indeed Met “Tosca” Is Back, with Top-Drawer Cast, But, Oh, that Production! NYFOS & Juilliard Take Us Cross-Country in Amazing Musical ‘Road Trip’ Richard Skipper Brings His Peerless Carol Channing Tribute Off-Broadway Water Water Everywhere as NJSO Flows into 2011 Violetta Takes a Licking & the Clock Keeps Ticking, Until … Pelléas & Mélisande Meet in the Mist in Another Part of the Forest, um, Mansion in Met Revival NYCGMC, Liz Callaway, and a Brass Band Help Make the Yuletide Gay “God Bless Us Every One,” Pasatieri’s New “Christmas Carol” Sequel’s Got a Knotty Plot, But Love & Forgiveness, Spirit & Song Conquer All Harmonium Rings in the Holidays in “New Earth” Mitchell, Reineke, Clurman, NY Pops, Essential Voices & Camp Broadway Make Holiday Songfest, at Carnegie, Most Memorable Happy 100th, “Fanciulla”: Met Celebrates Centennial of Puccini’s Western In “Summer & Smoke,” at Manhattan School, Dr. Dissolute Was the Only One Who Could Ever Reach the Daughter of the Preacher Man Met’s New “Don Carlo” Is Dark & Stark, but, oh, ‘What a Day for an Auto-da-fé’ Meet Mustachioed Thérèse, & Her Husband, Who Puts the Octomom & Kate+8 to Shame, in Merry “Mamelles” at Juilliard Soaking up the Farrell Spirit, Ritenour Makes Predecessor’s Arias & Songs Her Own Big Apple Corps Honors John Corigliano at Concert Covering Mendelssohn to the Beatles “I Capture the Castle” is Charming Winter Treat Blier & NYFOS Find the Heartfelt Gay Side of Classical Song On World AIDS Day, Stern-Wolfe & Downtown Music Keep Memories & Melodies of Composers, Whom Weve Lost, Alive “Les Mis” Brings Holiday Joy Wyrick Solo Makes Ice Sing with NJSO NY Pops Celebrates Sondheim’s 80th, at Carnegie ‘How English and How Pure’ South Sea Islanders Turn in Satirical “Utopia, Ltd” at NYGASP Charming “Bells Are Ringing” Finds Us ‘Just in Time,’ Thanks to City Center Encores! Harmonium Broadens Holiday Spirit with “Cantata of the Animals” “Rosmersholm” is 19th Century Work with 21st Century Impact “[title of show]” is Fabulous Fun Terfel, Terrific in Carnegie Recital, Covers God, the Devil & Great Deal in Between In Met “Così,” Singers Embellish Extensively, Under Baroque Opera’s Christie, & Get Physical, Guided by Koenig “A New Brain” is a New Perspective Opera Stars Honor Richard Tucker in 35th Anniversary Gala With Philharmonic, under Gilbert’s Baton, Finley Takes on Mendelssohn’s Prophet Wang Shows Star Power NJSO Conversations: Susan Mosher Met Fields Fine “Carmen,” with Garanča, Jovanovich & Newcomers “Prairie” Companions Come Home “Miscast” is Autumn Delight Met’s “Don Pasquale” Team Seeks Delicate Balance Between Buffo & Bel Canto “Intermezzo” Equals Major Attraction Met Offers 2 New Leonoras, Racette & DiGiacomo, in Halloween Eve "Trovatore" For Fall Gala, NYCO Offers Christine Brewer Singing Puccini, Wagner, Arlen & Kern “Lion” Roars in Madison At NYCO, ‘Trouble in Tahiti’ Is Brewing, But Dinah’s Garden Could Prove ‘A Quiet Place’ Yet OONY Returns with ‘Cav’ & ‘Nav’ Met “Bohème” Boasts Acclaimed Tenor Vittorio Grigolo & Other Worthy Newcomers With Cooke & Appleby, Blier & Barrett’s Festival of Song Starts Season, Eclectically, with “Beginner’s Luck” Pape & Met Chorus & Orchestra Shine in New "Boris," Under Gergiev Pageant! Brings Beauty Queens to Fair Lawn NJ "Circle Mirror Transformation" May Well Transform You "boom" is 'Topian Future Shock Bless "The Sneeze," It's Infectious "MoM" Rocks Out in Madison "All's Well" in Madison NY Pops Will Celebrate ABBA, Sondheim & Garland in 28th Season at Carnegie Kate Clinton Opens "Lady HaHa" Tour Powerful Raga from Ravi Conversations-Kate Clinton "Hairspray" Sticks With You Doggedly Daft with Fun in Fours, 4th Wall Opens Season with Double Bill "Home" is in the Heart' Rose Levine Sings to 'Save the Community House' Maestro Con Brio-NJSO Gala Starts Season in Style "Noises Off" Is Dead On at NLT Creating "Cirque du SoGay" for the Arts Project of Cherry Grove Bertran & Pumo Touch Us with Their "Love Scenes" FIPAP Works Wonders with Under-loved Sondheim Stepchild, "Merrily We Roll Along" "Lost Boy" Cuts to the Heart Hazelle Goodman: Get Her Started & You Won't Stop Laughing Anonymous 4 Put the Cherry on Top Avuncular Advice from Caetano Veloso in "zii e zie" Controversial "Orchestrion" Breaks New Ground Youssou N'Dour's "I Bring What I Love" "Highway Rider" Has Legs Sarah Rice, Bway's Original "Sweeney Todd" Johanna, Headlines Brandon Cutrell's Gala Bway @ Beach Season Finale "Sacred Jewels" Brings Ancient Music to Modern Light "A Night an the Tombs," Written & Performed by Bianca Leigh, Reaches Cherry's No Man's Land Schoenberg/Glass-Fully a Treat Dear Harvey In APCG "Cirque du SoGay," Piacentino, Rase, Sharmat & Company Will Take Fanciful Look at Grove History Imani Winds Take Us on an Journey to Exotic "Terra Incognita" Jim Speake Sings of "My Generation" "Arms and the Man:" Shakespeare Theatre of NJ Probes Shaw's Chocolate Cream Soldier "Secret Agent" Revealed Ray Fellman Returns for an Exception Edition of His & Brandon Cutrell's Bway @ the Beach "Songs, Laughter and Surprises!"-and an Embarrassment of Riches in APCG Show Dixon Place HOT! Festival Kicks Off with Anti-Diva's Pride Eve Party "Two Masters" are Two Times the Fun "Ali and Toumani"-Saving the Best for Last A Little Night Music- Revival Cast Recording Thrills Brandon Cutrell Hosts Gala Bway @ Beach Opener "Take You There" is Super Summer Soundtrack In "Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!" Penny Arcade Responds to Fighting Words Brush Up and Tame the Shrew Pan-Tastic Peter Rules at Paper Mill APCG Presents Penny Arcade in "Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!" Dixon Place Guarantees a "HOT!" Queer & Festive Summer OceanAires, Classical Concert in the Grove, Celebrates a (Dirty) Dozen Years "The Life" Sings at Westminster Arts Harmonium Celebrates Spring Soaring High with "Take Flight" Spoleto Festival & Charleston, South Carolina "The Kid," with Music Collegiate Chorale Considers Handel's "Israel in Egypt" for Season Finale Lulu's Back in Town, with Husbands, Lovers & Countess in Tow Into Africa, in Dudley's "Letters" NYFOS Ends Season with the New & 'Newest Deal' "Poetic License"-Power in the Spoken Word Gay Men's Chorus' Broadway Voices Enthusiastically Celebrate Songs of William Finn Shim Mamsir Queens Put on a Show, Vicious Gossip Is Rife, & There Are Lesbians Running the School! In MSM "Figaro," Tears Behind the Laughter, Drama Underlying the Comedy Mariinsky Chorus & NY Philharmonic, Led by Gergiev, Triumph in "Oedipus" "Nine Decades, Volume 1"-When West Met East Lesbian & Gay Band Triumphs in Rachmaninoff, Jenkins, Smith & Tchaikovsky Playwrights Excels in Thought-Provoking "Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven" Song Soirée at Turtle Bay Wagner's "Dutchman" Makes Uneven Met Return after a Decade Song & Emotion Fill Carnegie, as Beloved 'Flicka' Gives Farewell Recital Met Presents Premiere of "Armida," Subdued, & her Six Tenors, in Full Cry Martyred Nuns Take Juilliard Stage in Gripping "Carmélites," Led by Manson & Melano Back to School with "Dragonetti's New Academy" "The Subject Was Roses" A Pearl at City Center Conversation with Janis Ian Following Up on Their 'Enchanted Evening,' O'Hara & Szot 'Could Have Danced All Night' with NY Pops Andriessen Puts Us through Hell, in Dante-inspired "Commedia," before Lightening up & Daring Us to "Get It" Big Apple Corps Flexes Musical Muscles to Demonstrate "Symphonic Power!" "Smokey Joe's" Springs Into Action Everyone Enjoys "Anyone Can Whistle" Bio, Blockbusters & Surprises in Patti LuPone's "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" with NJSO NLT's "London" is Sweet on Simon With Bel Canto Cast, NYCO Reconsiders "Partenope" & Her Many Suitors Zephyer's Midsummer Night's Dream is Fast, Frothy Fun Manhattan Students Excel in Rare Handel Pastoral Gem 'Bad Girls' of the Big House Hit the Bowery Art Grows In Brooklyn: Catherine Eckdahl's Open Studio Singing Along with the NYC Gay Men's Chorus, Part II Collegiate Chorale Concert Raises the Question, Is Gordon & Korie's "Grapes of Wrath" the Great American Opera? Arts Florissants Field Rarified, Fascinating Purcell-Shakespeare "Fairy Queen" Baroque-a-Nova at BAM Sara Henry, David Clenny & Company Field a Fine "Lucia" for Haitian Relief Brooding, Bloodshed & Bel Canto Mark First Met "Hamlet," by Thomas, in 113 Years NYCO "Butterfly" Soars Probing Love & Hate ... & Love & ... in "Hate Mail" NYCO Starts Spring Season with Sparkling "Étoile" Stellar Array of Singers Salutes Sondheim at 80 in Philharmonic Gala Concert "Poorhouse" Is Painfully Accurate Sharon McNight Makes Welcome Return to Metropolitan Room Thanks "Yank"-LGBTI Must-See Musical at York Theatre It's Szot, at the Met-by a Nose Gutiérrez Gives Us Coloratura in All its Glory Jorge Martín's Opera "Before Night Falls," after Reinaldo Arenas' Memoir, Is Set for Premiere in Fort Worth on May 29 Tommy Femia Is Ready for a Close-up in Bawdy Spoof "Norma Doesmen" Chita Rivera, Still Going Strong, Reviews a Long Life of Song & Dance for Songbook Season Finale Motown Midtown with Jackie Fornatale In Met "Attila," 'Scourge of God' Wears Prada, & in Pit, Scourge of Bel Canto Reigns Philadelphia Flower Show Offers Floral 'Passport to the World' Wonder-Full Queen's Company Flanigan & Friends Field Fascinating Women in Their 'Monodramas' Damrau & Brownlee Delight in Met "Barbiere" Religious & Family Struggles Mark Potent New "Caso Mortara" at Dicapo Met Gives "Bohème" with Dream Cast for Our Time Lost in Yonkers--Found in Millburn Damrau Takes on Donizetti's Tomboy "Daughter," with Flórez as her Love, & Dame Kiri as a Dizzy Duchess In Philip's "All That Might Happen," Gay Couple Would Father a Child with a Friend, But Fate Deals a Different Hand than Expected Uggams, in Lincoln Center American Songbook Appearance, Shares Her Songs & Story American Songbook: Nellie in Blue "Fanny" is Encores! Old-Fashioned Delight Special Kaye and Special G "One Hundred Years'-A New Musical at 4th Wall Amelia/Maria & Her Tenors, Father & Lover, in Met "Boccanegra," Starring Domingo Choose "Two Jews..." at Playwright's Theatre Feydeau Always Had Paris, But in "Hotel Casablanca," Pasatieri Gives Us Texas, Where 'Everything Is Bigger' Broadway's 'Beautiful Girls' Salute Sondheim at Manhattan School "Drei Pintos-Begun by Weber, Completed by Mahler, Recovered by Bronx Opera Bad Baronets of "Ruddigore" Gleefully Return to NYGASP Repertory Blitzstein and Bernstein and Bolcom Oh My-NYFOS Killer B's Verdi's Evangelical Preacher Stiffelio, Brooding & Raging, Returns to the Met Met Unveils Fresh New "Carmen," Starring Garanča & Alagna NYC Gay Men's Chorus Celebrates 30, with Victoria Clark, at Town Hall Sandi Patty Wows Us at Carnegie Hall-and at the After Party Fauré's Faithful Pénélope Weaves & Waits at Manhattan School Met's New "Hoffmann"-Not Your Grandparents' "Tales" Third Annual Sinatra Bash Blows Count Basie Away Harmonium's "Winter Garden" is Holiday Highlight Downtown Music Remembers Chris DeBlasio Met Revives "Elektra" without a Strong Elektra "Twelfth Night" is Holiday Delight A Very Tallis Christmas In "Green Sneakers," Ricky Ian Recalls His Jeffrey & 'Temps Perdu' Way Down Under in New Orleans: Blanchett Brings Bravura Blanche to BAM Racette Scores Triumph as Diverse Heroines of "Trittico" Encores! Series Presents "Girl Crazy," Feel-Good Show with Some Surprise Thorns Manhattan School Examines the Musicking of the Bard of Avon Between the Lines with Janis Ian NYFOS Fields Delightful Probe of 'American Songwriting Teams' Celebrating (with) Aprile Millo at a Most Eclectic Anniversary Recital "On the Town" is Big Night Out Selections Familiar & Rare, & a World Premiere Help Mark Big Apple Corps' Big 3-0 Met Brings Bleak Janáček "House" into the Fold Love? Betrayal? Madness? Death? Hey, We've Got a Kingdom, No, a Corporation to Run, in Juilliard's Virtuoso "Ariodante" Opéra Noir: On T'Accuse, or Death & Sex in Don Giovanni's Trial or Nightmare Patrick DeGennaro Tells Us All about Love in Birdland Show & New CD "Unbroken" NYCO, 'Nice to Have You Back Where You Belong' to 'Take Care of This House' "Esther"-Lessons from a Modern Master And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little-Indeed! Some Pluses, Some Minuses in Met "Turandot" Revival Orpheus on Madison: Kirkby and Lindberg in Concert David Clenny, Lucine Amara & Company Celebrate Clenny's Golden Anniversary Attend the Tale: "Sweeney Todd" at 4th Wall Mosh Pits to Bosch Prints: "Who Shot Rock and Roll?" at Brooklyn Museum Lily Tomlin Live at NJPAC Carr Takes Rarified Look at Love in Film "A Body without a Head" "Grapes of Wrath": Devastating & Fantastic Revenge, Envy, Gay Love and Lust Are Probed in Village Playwrights' Triple Bill Rousing "Tre Re" introduces Bleecker Street Opera Dame Emma Explains Early Music All for Us Borodina Makes a Surprise Appearance in "Aida" Graham, Fleming, and Company Give Met "Rosenkavalier" the Royal Treatment Singers Come Home to NYFOS Top Drawer Cast Illuminates Met's 'Smashing Pumpkins' "Barbiere" Revival Her World Is Bound by Brick: Met Gives "Tosca" without Frills, Glamour-or Mattila Village Playwrights Present 3 Gay Comedies at LGBT Center October 16&17 The "Little House" That Roars Shakespeare Theatre's "Hamlet" Gives Great Saxe