From Culture Monster: Reviews are in for Jude Law's Broadway showing as Hamlet; and while it failed to hit the critical bullseye, CM dug Law's "sincerely inhabited performance"; the reviewer even experienced "a tinge of genuine fear that the craziness isn’t completely an act." (Jude did always read a little kooks...)

From Arts Blog: Uh-oh - is there even such a thing? A collection of POVs on the possible (inevitable?) Gustavo Dudamel backlash upon his L.A. landing reaches a fair conclusion: let's "praise [Dudamel] ... as a musician, not a messiah."

From Parterre Box: La Cieca (rightfully) takes issue with a Telegraph columnist's lumping of pedophilia with homoeroticism in discussions of Benjamin Britten; the whole piece, which addresses an artist's ... "personal life," particularly Roman Polanski's, coloring his professional contributions.

From OperaChic: New Tosca director Luc Bondy will appear tonight at Peter Gelb's round-table discussion, along with Patrice Chéreau and Bartlett Sher, to talk "opera and the art of directing" ... but somebody better ask about the boos. I want some Bondy sass!