Category Archives: Mini-Review

The Audience: A Mini-Review

A great disappointment: an unstructured series of humorous political sketches pretending to be a play. Enough said.

July 11, 2013 – 6:46 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Mini-Review, Movies, Theater | Comments Off on The Audience: A Mini-Review

The Little Way of Ruthie Leming – Mini-Review

Ever read a biography of an “unfamous” person? Neither had I until this totally engrossing, profound, and magical book about home, fathers, siblings, hurt, death and the power of sacrificial love. A biography which seems written to the old Shaker tune, A Gift to Be Simple. A wonderful book to read and then pass on […]

June 29, 2013 – 11:22 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, Mini-Review | Comments Off on The Little Way of Ruthie Leming – Mini-Review

The Iceman Cometh – Mini-Review

Since moving to Cleveland in December, we have been seeing two or three plays a month. By far the best production was today: The Ensemble Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece The Iceman Cometh. A play more talked about and admired than produced, Ian Hinz production made one of the most difficult of American plays […]

June 29, 2013 – 11:19 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Mini-Review, Theater | Comments Off on The Iceman Cometh – Mini-Review

Smokey Joe’s Cafe – Mini-Review

A June 23,2013 visit to beautiful and historic Cain Park to see Smokey Joe’s Cafe – a musical revue so good it made us forget the heat and me forget how many years since I first heard Leiber and Stoller’s tunes. Seamless collaboration between director Scott Plate and choreographer Gregory Daniels produced an all-singing/all-dancing ensemble […]

June 29, 2013 – 10:33 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Mini-Review | Comments Off on Smokey Joe’s Cafe – Mini-Review

Crowns at Karamu Theater -Mini-Review

The musical Crowns was the occasion for our June 9 visit to the historic Karamu Theater. Glorious singing, led by the incomparable Joyce Linzy, and Nathan Lilly wonderfully playing all of the men in the six show-stopping women’s lives. Simple but beautiful and imaginative staging by Terrence Spivey. The audience did not want the intermissionless […]

June 29, 2013 – 10:30 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Mini-Review, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on Crowns at Karamu Theater -Mini-Review