A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Moliere, adapated by Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp)

Silly, silly waste of time.

The Nutcracker (Eastern Connecticut Ballet)

We go to this production of the Nutcracker for only one reason: to watch Sarah M perform. This year, she had the role of the Doll, and her performance was excellent.

Recommend

Venus in Fur (David Ives)

2nd time around (and still with Nina Arianda in the lead) and the play still charms! We were only able to get one ticket, so Mike waited outside while I saw it by myself. Greater love....

I cannot recommend this production highly enough.  It's terrific.

Collaborators (John Hodge)

A National Theatre Live broadcast. Set in 1938 Moscow, the play imagines the circumstances in which Mikhail Bulgakov wrote his play celebrating Stalin's sixtieth birthday. Great play. Excellent production.

Highly Recommended

The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)

We went to see the exhibition on the Archimedes Codex. Fascinating story well told.

The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a serial killer (Michael Sturminger)

Purportedly premised on the memoirs of Jack Unterweger, a late-20th-century Austrian serial killer, the production combines the grotesquery of the criminal's clever justifications for his crimes with the lush beauty of late-18th tragic opera.   Why the two are combined is never made fully clear.  Visually, the two are connected when Unterweger attacks and strangles the two singers.  Conceptually, the second seems to be fantasy of his life as a tragic work of art in which some are doomed (through no fault of the artist) to die.
With John Malkovich as Unterweger.
Outrageous, yes. Yet, I'm still not certain this production lives up to its hype.

The Internal Comedy: Confessions of a serial killer (Michael Sturminger)

Featuring John Malkovich as Jack Unterweger, an Austrian serial killer. Strange hodge-podge of classical music and rant without any center.

Disappointing.  Recommend with reservations