Elle's Karen Durbin said the film not only puts "a fresh spin on female-centric pop genres but also own[s] them outright" and is "rich with first-rate performances".
Students in the Pillow's ballet program honored the future with a first-rate performance of a new work by Wayne Eagling, which began the evening.
This isn't a "South Park -style shock-fest; it's a character-driven comedy with a quartet of first-rate Park -styles.
But I have seen it twice, one time with Audra McDonald in the title role and the other with her alternate, Sherry Boone (whose first-rate performance, incidentally, disproved the widespread notion that "Marie Christine" is nothing without its star).
Since then, I've seen a number of first-rate performances and productions.
Irina Brown's atmospheric production, with a thunderous sound design by Duncan Chave, boasts a first-rate performance by one of Britain's most under-sung actresses, Paola Dionisotti.
Her "Arecibo Sonata," in a first-rate performance by Max Lifchitz, offered icy chords as introductions to busy figuration, and dance movement with a hint of a French accent.
You wouldn't expect to put on a first-rate performance without rehearsing, would you?
The choir are fantastic singers to begin with, producing first-rate performances even at the local village fete.
Such emotional sincerity is the hallmark of this revival from the Manhattan Theater Club, directed with gentle compassion by Michael Pressman and featuring first-rate performances from Kevin Anderson and Zoe Kazan.
Currently receiving its world premiere at New Jersey Repertory Company, the play is being produced in partnership with Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, and features first-rate performances by Michael Irvin and Al H. Mohrmann, regulars at New Jersey Repertory.
