Author: Stanford Friedman

Bat Out of Hell – The Musical

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Aug 11, 2019 | Reviews

Just when you thought that the sanitary jukebox musical had supplanted the messy rock opera, along comes Bat Out of Hell to set things right.

Road Show

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Jul 26, 2019 | Reviews

In a show that begins with a gold rush and ends with the burst of a real estate bubble, most everything goes downhill.

Leaving Eden

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Jul 19, 2019 | Reviews

By turns, charming, sexy, melancholy and righteous, this pairing of an ancient myth and a contemporary parable explores the creation of empowerment and the empowerment that comes with creation.

Rock of Ages

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Jul 10, 2019 | Reviews

Though the production exhibits an almost pathological fear of leaving a tender moment alone, there is a standout performance by Kirsten Scott and enough earworms to satisfy any fan of 80’s power rock.

In the Green

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Jun 28, 2019 | Reviews

Inspired by the medieval story of Hildegard von Bingen, a child tithed by her family to the Catholic Church who spent decades in isolation and then, centuries later, was proclaimed a saint, McLean deconstructs Hildegard’s path from darkness into light, while exploring the connection between the spiritual mind and the physical body.