Monthly Archives: September 2018

VIRGINIA OPERA’S STREET SCENE – A TRIUMPH

      Last week Terry Teachout, the wisest theater critic in America, noted the significance of regional opera companies in both maintaining a high standard of excellence and simultaneously attracting an audience. “It is not that grand opera is incapable of appealing to American theatergoers. Even now, there are many Americans who love it […]

September 29, 2018 – 11:34 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, Dance, from Paul, History, Music, Opera, Politics, Theater | Comments Off on VIRGINIA OPERA’S STREET SCENE – A TRIUMPH

NT’S CHICHESTER KING LEAR: A FATHER ABUSED, A FATHER RESCUED

  The recent discovery by University of Roehampton Shakespeare historian Glyn Parry that Shakespeare’s father, John, was driven into debt through betrayal by secret informers, may give insight into the playwright’s depiction of fathers in his plays. John Shakespeare, like Timon of Athens, had large debts and writs against him, including ones authorizing sheriffs to arrest […]

September 28, 2018 – 9:56 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Movies, Poetry, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on NT’S CHICHESTER KING LEAR: A FATHER ABUSED, A FATHER RESCUED

LITTLE THEATRE of VIRGINIA BEACH: YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU – THE HOSPITALITY OF GRANDPA

  “Foxy Grandpa”, “Money in the Bank”, “They Loved Each Other”, “The King is Naked”, and “Grandpa’s Other Snake” were all rejected as titles by playwrights George S. Kaufman and his young collaborator Moss Hart.[i] They finally settled on “You Can’t Take It with You.” The expression is very old, possibly dating from St. Paul’s […]

September 24, 2018 – 9:37 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, History, Men and Women, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on LITTLE THEATRE of VIRGINIA BEACH: YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU – THE HOSPITALITY OF GRANDPA

VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY: ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE :THE TROUBADOUR AS HERO

The March 7, 1963 headlines blazoned the news across the front page of the Los Angeles Times: Three ‘Grand Old Opry’ Stars Die in Air Crash. Bodies of Patsy Cline, Hankshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas Found on Tennessee Hill. And it happened just four years after another plane crash took the lives of Buddy Holly, […]

September 21, 2018 – 11:38 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Movies, Newspapers, Opera, Quotations, Theater | Comments Off on VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY: ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE :THE TROUBADOUR AS HERO