(Doing our best to bring you John Simon's reviews of plays he actually liked, this article appeared on Bloomberg, October 6.)
That desperate fairytale feline who uses trickery and persuasion to get rich and marry off his poor master to a princess, is the hero of “El gato con botas,” now at New York’s New Victory Theater.
Composed by Xavier Montsalvatge, an undeservedly little- known Catalan, it’s been given an exquisite production involving the combined efforts of Gotham Chamber Opera, Tectonic Theater Project and Britain’s Blind Summit Theatre. Last update: 12:07 AM ET, Oct 7
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