Performer: Susan Stroman

A conventional and quite predictable staging of Lehár’s most famous operetta was saved by dedicated musicians.

Love, light, levity, life. A joyful performance of Franz Lehár's Parisian operetta offers catharsis in troubling times. 

Only the slightest of quibbles with a fun, frothy new production of The Merry Widow at The Met. 

Carla Escoda reviews Pacific Northwest Ballet's mixed bill featuring the world première of Memory Glow by Alejandro Cerrudo, and revivals of Molissa Fenley's iconoclastic solo to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, State of Darkness, Susan Marshall's aerial ballet Kiss, and Susan Stroman's TAKE FIVE...More or Less, set to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.