Category Archives: Television

SFO’s SHOWBOAT: New Excellence in Live Performance Recording

The recently released two disc DVD of the San Francisco Opera’s 2014 production of Hammerstein and Kern’s pioneer opera Showboat is a treat for many reasons. First, rarely has the art of live performance recording been practiced to such great effect than by screen director Frank Zamacona and his EuroArts team. The shots are beautifully […]

July 21, 2015 – 1:55 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, Media, Movies, Opera, Television, Theater, Videos | Comments Off on SFO’s SHOWBOAT: New Excellence in Live Performance Recording

ROB ASHFORD’S CAROUSEL: An Historic Reinterpretation

Throughout theater history a director’s re-imaging of a stage classic changes forever how a play is considered. In mid twentieth century Peter Brook’s productions of Shakespeare changed King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Rob Ashford’s Lyric Opera production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel will change that post World War Two musical forever as well. […]

April 17, 2015 – 1:18 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, Music, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on ROB ASHFORD’S CAROUSEL: An Historic Reinterpretation

A NOTE FROM SISTER VASSA

  To my great surprise and delight, I received a note from my favorite podcaster, Sister Dr. Vassa Larin, host of the wildly popular video series Coffee with Sister Vassa. Sr. Dr. Vassa is a Russian Orthodox ryassofor nun, author of many scholarly articles and a monograph on Byzantine liturgy and theology, and outspoken public […]

September 28, 2014 – 1:37 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Blog Groups, Books, from Paul, Media, Movies, Quotations, Talks, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on A NOTE FROM SISTER VASSA

BILLY GRAHAM ON 9/11

President and Mrs. Bush, I want to say a personal word on behalf of many people. Thank you, Mr. President, for calling this Day of Prayer and Remembrance. We needed it at this time. We come together today to affirm our conviction that God cares for us, whatever our ethnic, religious or political background may […]

September 11, 2012 – 4:17 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Current Events, History, Politics, Quotations, Talks, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, World Affairs | Comments Off on BILLY GRAHAM ON 9/11

Life or Death in Black and White

Debates between the Christian worldview and the secular world view seem very popular at the moment. Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens frequented the debate circuit. Currently on stage, Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis square off in Mark St. Germain’s  Freud’s Last Session. Recently cable television weighed in with HBO’s abbreviated  film version […]

June 2, 2012 – 11:12 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, Movies, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology, Videos | Comments Off on Life or Death in Black and White