Joshua Fineberg's Lolita at Peak Performances @ Montclair
and
Keys to the Future at (Le) Poisson Rouge
and
Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera
The New York Times, April 8, 2009
How remarkable that a sedate suburb like Montclair, New Jersey, is home to some of the New York area's most provocative presentations in Jedediah Wheeler's Peak Performances series at Montclair State University. I can't speak to the quality of the Manhattan shuttle bus service on weekends, but I can now verify that getting to MSU on a weeknight is a piece of cake -- the New Jersey Transit train line stops two blocks away from the theater (it's the penultimate stop, Montclair Heights).
As for the event, I'm pretty pleased with this review -- but do pay special attention to the fantastic photo by Michelle V. Agins, which does an amazing job of actually showing what this incredibly complex production looked like. You can also still see the trailer video, with bits of a European performance and comments from Fineberg, on YouTube.