by David Maurer | Dec 9, 2015 | Classical Music and Opera |
If you’ve ever sipped a chilled Bellini cocktail, you know that it is refreshing, bubbly and sweet, qualities that come to mind when listening to the music of Vincenzo Bellini, composer of Norma. Although the cocktail dreamed up at Venice’s Harry’s Bar was actually...
by David Maurer | Nov 17, 2015 | Theater and Dance |
Stories about the sea from Moby Dick to The Sea Wolf to The Old Man and the Sea speak not only of adventure but of discovery… as much or more about one’s self than anything else. And so it is with The Money Fish, John Cox’s exhilarating one-man show about his...
by David Maurer | Oct 25, 2015 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
“Comedy is, to my mind, the only thing worth writing in this despairing age, providing it is comedy which is truly on the side of the lonely, the neglected and the unsuccessful.” So says Sir John Mortimer, the British-born playwright and author of The Dock Brief....
by David Maurer | Oct 9, 2015 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
In one of life’s bitter ironies, American composer Stephen Paulus suffered a major stroke just six weeks after completing recording this album of elegiac choral works. He never recovered, and after being in a coma for over a year, passed away in October 2014. Far in...
by David Maurer | Oct 9, 2015 | Theater and Dance |
Something wicked this way comes… in this case it is Wicked Lit, a spate of short, spooky plays running through Nov. 14 at Altadena’s remarkable Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery. This is site-specific theater at its best, using stage smoke, dramatic lighting and...
