Monthly Archives: February 2017

The Goodman Theatre: Uncle Vanya , Our Contemporary

Todd Rosenthal’s sublime setting which greeted the audience entering the Owen theater alerted us to what was to come. Among the period pieces of furniture sat a 1950s-style blond wood arm chair and a chrome dinette chair. A 1920s-radio rested upon the piano and a goose-neck electric light roosted nearby. Then came the note by […]

February 26, 2017 – 2:37 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Quotations, Theater | Comments Off on The Goodman Theatre: Uncle Vanya , Our Contemporary

Lyric Opera’s CARMEN: Ashford and Calleja Make History

“Bullfighting is the only art form that both represents something and is that thing at the same time: the matador’s elegant immobility in the face of the bull not only represents man’s defiance of death, it is a man defying death, and there are women who do it too.”[i] In Rob Ashcroft’s magnificent new telling of Bizet’s Carmen, the […]

February 20, 2017 – 9:09 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Books, Current Events, Dance, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, Opera, Quotations, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Lyric Opera’s CARMEN: Ashford and Calleja Make History

Artistic Home’s BY THE BOG OF CATS . . . : Harrowing Irish Drama

Move over Lucia, Dido, and Norma! There’s a new operatic heroine in town. Marina Carr’s Hester Swane may not be a Scottish lady, or a Carthaginian princess, or a Druid priestess, but this down-and-out Irish tinker suffers more passionate abandonment by loved ones in her brief stage lifetime than all three opera divas suffer together […]

February 13, 2017 – 11:28 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Opera, Theater | Comments Off on Artistic Home’s BY THE BOG OF CATS . . . : Harrowing Irish Drama

CST’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Charming Delight

Harold Bloom, Yale’s Sterling Professor of the Humanities, has a particular desire to see Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: I have never seen a production of this extravagant comedy that could begin to perform to its vocal magnificence, but I always live in hope that some director of genius will yet deliver it to us. Marti […]

February 8, 2017 – 1:07 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Poetry, Quotations, Theater | Comments Off on CST’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Charming Delight