Jonathan Larson Sings across Two Decades—to US by Rachel Norby and Barry David Horwitz After twenty years of fame and fortune, “Rent” has become a star-making machine. Young people from all over the country turn into shining, new singers and dancers. They spread their wings in the 20th anniversary tour of “Rent” at SHN…
Rajiv Joseph’s Comedy Exposes Seduction of Innocents by Barry David Horwitz Could there be a more topical play than Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke”? Here’s a new play about young people manipulated, propagandized, and groomed to give their lives for empty patriotism. “Archduke” shows how older men get the young to fight their battles—in this superb…
Ionesco’s Comedy Disrupts the Known Universe by Barry David Horwitz You can view Director Frank Galati’s streamlined version of Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 play “Rhinoceros” as a puzzle or a time-bomb. That bomb starts ticking in the first scene, in front of the lovely painted curtain of a small French village. Two friends drink wine…
O’Hare & Peterson Up-Date Your Friendly, Local Bible by Barry David Horwitz So many Bibles, so many thousands of years . . . and those translations…. the King James Version, the Catholic Vulgate…. The Ancient Hebrew…. The New Princeton Revised…. How have they influenced us over the ages? These questions haunt the lives of…