You know you want you some Riverdance: In the opening "Reel Around the Sun," the stage throbs with a kind of orgiastic splendor.Some musicals continue to tour long after they've worn out their welcome. The orchestra grows thinner on each repeat visit, and the productions seem a little further removed from our initial memories. But I would expect Riverdance, which returns to the Fox this weekend for five performances between Friday and Sunday in what is being billed as the "farewell performances,
Alex WildDon't be sucked in by the toy soldiers; Helver's Night is for grownups​So far as openings go, it's a quiet week. The only new show is Upstream Theater's production of the U.S. premiere of Helver's Night, a Polish play by Ingmar Villqist -- though it will hardly be quiet, for it is a play about brutality, intolerance and despair. Its backdrop is the totalitarianism that was beginning to suffocate Europe in the 1930s. The play, which has been translated by Upstream artistic director Phi
