It is a challenging work.
With more than 50 roles (and a small ensemble of children), "Street Scene" is a challenging work to stage.
And credit should also go to the city's cultural leaders who supported this presentation of a challenging work.
Similarly, I find theatre reviews most useful after the fact, as a guide or counterpoint to a challenging work, or simply to prolong the warm afterglow.
It makes it a challenging work to experience through surtitles – follow the details of a conversation here, the details of an interaction there are lost.
A challenging work, the novel uses multiple eras to riff on questions of race and belonging: how to be American in a non-white skin?
Potter's production, which turned the cigarette factory into a security firm, proved that Carmen remains a challenging work to stage.
Stories We Tell is a challenging work, with that startling use of reconstructions, which are arguably self-conscious and in questionable taste.
The performance by Ensemble musikFabrik, a brilliant contemporary-music group from Germany, conducted by Peter Rundel, in a dazzling staging conceived and directed by Carlus Padrissa, is a triumphant realization of a challenging work.
Remove Posh's album from the equation, however, and you're left not with a challenging work of art, but a polished, radio-friendly pop album and a sense that some journalists should calm down a bit.
You're left with an album that fancies itself as a challenging work of art, but turns out to be a collection of fantastic pop songs full of interesting, smart lyrics.
