“Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic,” this cleverly axiomatic phrase is attributed to comedy writer Jane Wagner. The 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Picnic, by William Inge, lends evidence to Ms. Wagner’s witticism. The […]
It is remarkable that Claude Debussy’s PELLEAS ET MELISANDE remains sui generis 121 years after the opera’s premiere. Despite aggressively modern works by Schoenberg, Tippett, Berio, and Glass, it remains, in its […]
Audiences have long had a love affair with the dashing hero of Edmond Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Theatre creators also succumbed to the charms of the man with the generous […]
A show curtain for the current LA Opera production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (The Marriage of Figaro) prominently features Commedia del Arte characters. Was this an indication that […]
Acting is more than a talent, it is also an aesthetic technology. I had never looked at the art of the thespian in that way, not until I recently attended a […]
