“The Avengers” was a campy English 1960’s television spy series and is still remembered fondly today. While the show clearly placed itself within the James Bond 007 spy-thriller genre, “The... Read more
“Anything Goes,” courtesy of the Good Shepherds Players. The Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes” was to have run two weekends in March at Good Shepherds Players, part of the annual tradition... Read more
“The show must go on!” So runs an old dictum in the theatre world, but how do theatre companies survive and thrive in the era in which we find ourselves? Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, V... Read more
Bel Cantanti’s world premiere production of “Briscula the Magician” is magical indeed; it combines modernistic, often atonal, operatic music with political observations about the past which... Read more
The Puppet Co.’s current production of “Beauty and the Beast” is not a recreation of the 1991 Disney animated version, and there are no enchanted teapots and candlesticks to make children g... Read more
During the Romantic Age, composers in the German-speaking world set to music many of the era’s greatest poems in the German language. An outstanding example is “Dichterliebe,” or “A Poet’s... Read more
“The whole tree was alive with howling cats, and at the very top was enthroned my [a cat], his back arched, playing . . . on a bagpipe, while the other cats, uttering bloodcurdling cries,... Read more
“Translating the poetic image of the fairy tale into the pedestrian language of psychoanalysis, the marriage of “Beauty and the Beast” is the humanization and socialization of the id by the... Read more
“Bobby Gould in Hell” by David Mamet introduced this reviewer to the concept of “Pop-Up Theatre.” It was at the Italian Café Restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia, with excellent Italian cui... Read more
In the Mel Brooks’ film “The Producers” and the Broadway musical which it inspired, Max Bialystock, an erstwhile top Broadway producer, and Leo Bloom, a tax accountant living the kind of li... Read more
