by Tom Sturm | Oct 9, 2008 | Stage
In an effort to rebuild the Shantigar Foundation’s once-magnificent theater barn, foundation members present two stagings of foundation creator Jean-Claude van Itallie’s The Tibetan Book of the Dead (or How Not to Do It Again). A longtime practitioner of...
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...
