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 […]
Married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and divorced from all three of them, Ava Gardner was fodder for 20th-century gossip columnists and a signature component of the Golden Age of […]
The always ambitious Pacific Opera Project (POP) is presenting the American premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s ERCOLE SU’L TERMONDONTE (Hercules on the Thermodon) along with an interactive theatrical history lesson. The […]
For those of us who came of artistic age in Los Angeles during the 1980’s and 90’s, the CAST Theatre was a vibrant home to a wide range of plays […]
Sadly, the short run is over for this well-conceived rendition of a very messy play written (with John Fletcher) at the end of Shakespeare’s life, and produced, originally, at London’s […]
