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Lyric Opera’s Bel Canto: The Music, The Music, The Music

“It has a tremendous variety of expression, of musical ideas. It has a virtuoso quality to it. It has very driven and barbaric moments about it, very lyrical moments, very sensual moments. It has chamber music in the midst of all this bombastic stuff. It’s incredibly exciting.” The words of Leonard Bernstein’s former pupil Yakov […]

January 13, 2016 – 11:04 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, Current Events, from Paul, History, Movies, Music, Opera, Politics, Quotations, Theater, World Affairs | Comments Off on Lyric Opera’s Bel Canto: The Music, The Music, The Music

THE HEIR APPARENT: A Matter of Style

Americans have always had a problem with affectation. Our first comedy, Royal Tyler’s The Contrast (1787), draws a sharp distinction between the emerging American style of Colonel Henry Manly and his pal Jonathan, and the Britisher, Mr. Billy Dimple and his servant, Jessamy, while acknowledging the bedrock importance of matters of style – national, ethnic, […]

December 5, 2015 – 9:41 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, Quotations, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments Off on THE HEIR APPARENT: A Matter of Style

LADY IN THE GLASS: Chicago Novelist’s Play Finally in Print

The Lady in The Glass has existed in fragments, hand-written notes, and typed pages until now. The Lady in the Glass by Robert Herrick (1907) is now the only available play by the great American turn-of the-century novelist, revealing his unconventional and unpopular views on medicine, high society, women, and social-climbing. Get it here: LADY […]

March 29, 2015 – 9:59 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Theater | Comments Off on LADY IN THE GLASS: Chicago Novelist’s Play Finally in Print

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS: The Wrong Protagonist

The differences between the Exodus story according to film director Ridley Scott and the Biblical account of the Exodus is in the chosen protagonist (chief actor; hero). Ridley Scott casts Moses as the protagonist; the story is about him. The Bible recounts the heroic actions of God; the story is about Him. Scott’s Moses is […]

January 6, 2015 – 9:45 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom | Comments (1)

Just Released…

October 29, 2014 – 2:37 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, Men and Women, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Just Released…