Monthly Archives: February 2019

THE ABBEY THEATRE’S TWO PINTS: On-Site Brilliance

If you were to guess the location of the Abbey Theatre’s first ever on-site theater production, the answer should be a “no-brainer”: A Pub. Of course. Even the dead,  but still-great, American dramaturgical pub-bard Eugene O’Neill could have guessed that. For the past year or so the world-famous theatre company has been taking their new […]

February 25, 2019 – 4:16 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, Current Events, from Paul, History, Talks, Theater | Comments Off on THE ABBEY THEATRE’S TWO PINTS: On-Site Brilliance

VIRGINIA OPERA OFFERS A RADIANT ELIXIR OF LOVE

I first heard about elixirs of love in 1959 when, through my transistor radio, I heard Jed Lieber’s words about that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth She’s got a pad on Thirty-Fourth and Vine Sellin’ little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine While a new idea to me at the time, the concept of a […]

February 9, 2019 – 11:25 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, Opera, Quotations, Theater | Comments Off on VIRGINIA OPERA OFFERS A RADIANT ELIXIR OF LOVE

The MET OPERA: CARMEN AS MORALITY PLAY

Each performance  is custom-made. Unlike film, when stage actors meet before a new audience anything is possible. As the playwright Herb Gardner noted, There is a chance each time the curtain goes up of glory and disaster, the actors and the audience will take each other somewhere, neither knows where for sure.[i] And that magical […]

February 3, 2019 – 1:01 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, Books, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, Opera, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments Off on The MET OPERA: CARMEN AS MORALITY PLAY