“Vibrant and funny, desperate and elegiac… will shatter your heart”

“More of a song cycle than a traditionally structured, plot-driven musical, ‘The Beautiful Lady’ is set at the Stray Dog Café, a real-life St. Petersburg cabaret where the owner, Boris Pronin (Starr Busby), hosted such literary luminaries as Anna Akhmatova (Kate Fuglei)… vibrant and funny, desperate and elegiac, with some so lovely they will shatter your heart.”

-Elisabeth Vincentelli
NYT Critic’s Pick