Monthly Archives: May 2017

Druid’s WAITING FOR GODOT: An Irish Triumph

Garry Hynes’ amazing production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot made its first stop on Druid’s American tour at Charleston, South Carolina’s 2017 Spoletto Festival, The occasion is significant for several reasons. First, the production demonstrates conclusively why Beckett’s famous play is rightly considered a masterpiece of dramatic theater. Second, Ms. Hynes production rescues the […]

May 29, 2017 – 9:10 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Theater | Comments Off on Druid’s WAITING FOR GODOT: An Irish Triumph

THE MET’S DER ROSENKAVALIER: OUR MARSCHALLIN SAYS GOODBYE

Since she first played the role with the Houston Grand Opera in 1995, and despite excellent performances by other sopranos, no American soprano has been as closely identified with Richard Strauss’ Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier than Renee Fleming. For twenty-two years, from the Paris Opera, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the San Francisco Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, […]

May 14, 2017 – 1:15 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on THE MET’S DER ROSENKAVALIER: OUR MARSCHALLIN SAYS GOODBYE

MY FIRST TATTOO

No, not that kind of tattoo! I mean the kind of tattoo I didn’t even know existed until a few weeks ago. The tattoo I mean originated in the England of 1644 as the name for a signal made, by drum beat or bugle call, in the evening for soldiers to return to their quarters, […]

May 2, 2017 – 10:32 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, World Affairs | Comments Off on MY FIRST TATTOO