Everybody sings well, and Valerie Maze's five-piece pit band sails through Mr. Sondheim's score as though it were easy, which it isn't not by the longest of shots.

WSJ: A Little Night Music | Writers' Theatre | A 'Night' to Remember | Theater Review by Terry Teachout

Brenda Didier's choreography and Bill Morey's costumes have the right period look, as does the five-piece pit band, and the 150-seat theater is small enough to make you feel as though you're sipping fake Champagne in one of the joints frequented by Joey and Vera.

WSJ: 'Woman in Mind': Funny as a Straitjacket | Eclipse Theatre Company | Pal Joey | Porchlight Music Theatre | Reviews by Terry Teachout

It all made me wish for the logical next step for New York: regular staged productions of these operas, in an appropriately sized theater with a pit, starring a period-instrument band, conductor and singers as fine as these.

WSJ: The Turn of the Screw: Those Lifeless Servants