Category Archives: Movies

TIDEWATER STAGE’S DIAL M FOR MURDER: FABULOUS THEATER

“Smell-o-vision” “Illusion-o” “Percepto” “Sensurround” “3D” The history of film can be seen as an ongoing attempt to use technology to reproduce and distribute the power of live stage performance inexpensively to a wide audience. Before considering the work at Tidewater Stage, let’s look at the journey Frederick’s Knott’s tale took to get to Virginia Beach. […]

June 18, 2018 – 9:37 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, Books, Current Events, from Paul, History, Movies, Music, Quotations, Television, Theater | Comments Off on TIDEWATER STAGE’S DIAL M FOR MURDER: FABULOUS THEATER

STUDIO THEATRE’S TRANSLATIONS: ANOTHER KIND OF PRODIGAL SON

Set in rural Ireland in 1833, Brian Friel’s’ Translations explores the troubles brought to a handful of characters following the return of a prodigal son.  Whereas the prodigal in Christ’s parable returned ashamed and broken, Friel’s prodigal returns home proud and puffed up. Maire, a local maiden, has long been betrothed to Manus, the oldest […]

April 19, 2018 – 12:59 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Movies, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on STUDIO THEATRE’S TRANSLATIONS: ANOTHER KIND OF PRODIGAL SON

NATIONAL THEATRE’S JULIUS CAESAR: THE JOHN WILKES BOOTH INTERPRETATION RETURNS

Julius Caesar opened Shakespeare’s new Globe Theatre in 1599. Having completed his history cycle, Shakespeare turned to a political drama set in the ancient past. History was fertile ground through which to make  political points about the issues of the day. Julius Caesar was to Rome as Elizabeth I was to England – an aging […]

March 23, 2018 – 11:42 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Movies, Politics, Quotations, Theater | Comments Off on NATIONAL THEATRE’S JULIUS CAESAR: THE JOHN WILKES BOOTH INTERPRETATION RETURNS

National Theatre Live: The Expressionist Hamlet

Lyndsay Turner’s Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is strikingly different from other recent Hamlets. Rory Kinnear ‘s Hamlet directed by Nicholas Hytner, Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 self-directed Hamlet, and Greg Doran’s 2009 David Tennant Hamlet all evidenced the influence of John Barton’s magisterial elucidation of how Shakespeare’s language needed to be played. Barton insisted on a detailed […]

March 9, 2018 – 11:08 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Movies, Quotations, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments Off on National Theatre Live: The Expressionist Hamlet

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