plays
Mozart opera, feminism, and Allah the merciful
February 2, 2017Director James Robinson has reset Mozart’s 18th-century "Singspiel" in the Roaring Twenties.
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Anti-apartheid musical “Lost in the Stars” a stunning success in L.A.
February 2, 2017Anderson’s stage adaptation for Weill is based on Alan Paton’s novel "Cry, the Beloved Country."
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World War II refugee Jews in Japan: The play “Fugu”
February 1, 2017The play proves the truth in the old dictum that “something good came out of something terrible.”
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“Zanna, Don’t!” — where gay is the norm, hetero is taboo
January 30, 2017It’s a fun show on a small stage, though almost obsessively focused on love and the tyranny of sexual uniformity.
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Music of resistance: Kurt Weill and Rabbi Joachim Prinz
January 30, 2017The fact that this festival took place at the moment of Trump’s crowning brought a timely significance to the deliberations.
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