by Ella Longpre | Oct 16, 2008 | Stage
When Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner appeared on screens last year, the film captured the desperate, epic drama of the book with vast landscapes and a vibrant score. This week, Sorab Wadia (pictured) performs a new adaptation of The Kite Runner: a quiet,...
by Kendra Thurlow | Oct 16, 2008 | Stage
Shakespeare's Macbeth is so steeped in superstition with its witches, visions, apparitions and prophecies that many thespians have been known to refuse to call the play by its name in fear of invoking a curse, instead referring to it as "The Scottish...
by James Heflin | Oct 23, 2008 | Stage
If an explosion of high romance is what you desire, where better to travel than 19th-century Spain? In Georges Bizet's most famous operatic work, Carmen, a gypsy woman stirs up passion and drama with her unapologetic and hedonistic embrace of life.Teatro Linco...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 23, 2008 | Stage
Starting this week, I'll be writing about theater in these pages on a regular basis. As befits this paper, I consider myself an advocate for the theater—someone who loves the stage, respects and admires the work of the individuals and companies who tread the...
by Kendra Thurlow | Oct 30, 2008 | Stage
In Ted Tiller's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the bulk of the action takes place at psychiatrist Dr. Seward's living quarters on the grounds of the Asylum for the Insane in 1930s England. At dinner one night the characters—Dr. Seward; Sybil,...
