Category Archives: Books

LITTLE THEATRE OF NORFOLK’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN: THE SOUL SURVIVOR

Jack Kline, president and chief operating officer of Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. says “people like to do business with people they like. That’s just a natural part of the way people operate.” People prefer the people they like. Jurors prefer the more likeable attorney. Voters prefer the more likable candidate. Buyers prefer to purchase […]

March 17, 2018 – 12:06 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, Quotations, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on LITTLE THEATRE OF NORFOLK’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN: THE SOUL SURVIVOR

LES MIS: THE ENERGIZER MUSICAL

The musical Les Misérables premiered on  September 24,1980; Duracell’s Energizer Bunny debuted nine years later, but unlike the pink bunny, Schonberg’ and Boubil’s musical keeps getting stronger and stronger. Over 70 million people in 44 countries never grow tired of this magical stage work. (Aside from Hamlet, Kathleen and I have seen Les Mis more […]

January 26, 2018 – 9:34 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, Current Events, from Paul, History, Music, Opera, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on LES MIS: THE ENERGIZER MUSICAL

LADY BIRD: A TREE GROWS IN SACRAMENTO

The story was called the “best of the year” by the New York Times The author was hailed as a “fresh, original, finished talent” who tells a story about a young girl’s “coming of age”, “growing up and the beginning of wisdom,” “no unsavory detail” is omitted in a tale that has “light and air […]

December 7, 2017 – 7:08 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Movies, Quotations | Comments Off on LADY BIRD: A TREE GROWS IN SACRAMENTO

Metropolitan Opera’s MAGIC FLUTE: Saved by the Singing

During the Civil War, President Lincoln was criticized for attending the opera so often. He replied, “I must have a change, or I will die.” No opera that he saw was as different from everyday life, even wartime life, than Mozart’s MAGIC FLUTE. Mozart scholar, and a former director of the Glyndebourne Festival, Myer Fredman […]

October 15, 2017 – 3:39 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, Music, Opera, Quotations, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Metropolitan Opera’s MAGIC FLUTE: Saved by the Singing

Tidewater Opera Initiative: Fearless Performance

If you need proof as to the truth of Henri Matisse’s observation, “Creativity takes courage,” you need go no further than the weekend performances at Norfolk’s funky Hugh R Copeland Center of Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor and Henry Purcell’s  Dido and Aeneas. The Tidewater Opera Initiative (TOI), a self-described “boutique opera company”, presented the pair of […]

August 7, 2017 – 11:24 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, Music, Opera, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Tidewater Opera Initiative: Fearless Performance