by David Maurer | Jul 24, 2014 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
The best entertainments take you places — places where you likely have never been — and offer you a grandstand seat to explore that world. “Burq Off!,” a one-woman show by Nadia Parvez Manzoor, would certainly qualify for most Americans. It receives its West Coast...
by David Maurer | Jul 12, 2014 | Theater and Dance |
With episodes of patricide, fratricide and suicide, it seems as if every side of “The Curse of Oedipus” is going to be sensational and gruesome. But don’t mind the mayhem — the expert retelling of this ancient Greek myth assures a rich and entertaining night at the...
by David Maurer | Jun 9, 2014 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
The logline for “Dates and Nuts” reads as follows: “An animal rights activist searches for love in the jungle of New York City.” Not exactly an original premise, but in the right hands, it could be a hoot. As it turns out, a combination of assured writing, believable...
by David Maurer | May 23, 2014 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
Who can forget the indelible image of a young Marlon Brando howling “STELLA” in Elia Kazan’s 1951 film “A Streetcar Named Desire”? It’s a delight to see the same scene reprised in the operatic version of the Tennessee Williams’ play currently at LA Opera. However,...
by David Maurer | May 12, 2014 | Classical Music and Opera |
Ribald is the single word I would choose to describe Pacific Opera Project’s latest undertaking, a reworking of the 1651 opera La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli. While Baroque operas like this one often include some comic elements (meant to attract and amuse the less...
