The joys of creating on a usable past: ThreePenny Theatre Company’s forthcoming premiere production adapting Mikhail Kuzmin’s 1929 play The Death of Nero
During his lifetime, Mikhail Kuzmin produced an extraordinary output, including poetry, novels, critical essays, musical scores, and plays. However, in the mid 1920s, as Stalin tightened his grip on the new Soviet state, Kuzmin became persona non grata in the eyes of the regime and published virtually nothing during the last 10 years of his … Read more
Telling ‘a pretty cool story’ in Torrey House Press recent book: R.E. Burrillo’s American Archaeology is entertaining exploration revealing more than a fascination with ‘really old stuff’
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the tenth in an ongoing series of features highlighting authors and new books published…
Ambitious Park City Opera production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette hits many excellent marks in musicianship, singing, choreographed ballet passages
Of the 12 operas that Charles Gounod wrote, two have survived the test of time: Faust, which is…
Nevermore: once again, annual Performing Arts Coalition show at The Rose set to raise the bar with comedic riff on Poe’s The Raven
Only a literary figure with stature such as Edgar Allan Poe has an NFL team honoring his creative…
Ballet West’s 63rd season augurs well as one for the history books: Adam Sklute’s final and 20th season looks to be stirring artistic valedictory
Twenty years ago, when Adam Sklute, former dancer and associate artistic director at The Joffrey Ballet, arrived in…
