Millennial Notes Mona Golabek Relives Her Mother’s Story & Plays Classics by Evelyn Arevalo “The Pianist of Willesden Lane” is absolutely spellbinding. Mona Golabek’s solo performance expertly entwines riveting classical piano with a shocking WWII story. She recounts how, in 1938, her mother, Lisa Jura, narrowly escaped the Nazi’s. Lisa, a passionate fourteen year…
Michael Frayn’s Geniuses Collide over Nuclear Ethics by Patricia L. Morin Director Bruce Coughran demonstrates his mastery of language and movement, as his powerful cast of three encircle the tiny boardwalk stage at Indra’s Net Theater. Coughran summons the ghosts of these real-life, legendary physicists—Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg—to walk the wooden planks in…
Carl Jordan Makes Shakespeare for Today by Robert M. Gardner Don’t miss L. Peter Callender as Shakespeare’s Othello. In the 30th anniversary year of African American Shakespeare Company, longtime Artistic Director Callender finally gets his wish to play the great role. Callender is physically well suited to play Othello. His face in repose possesses…
Henrik Nánási Brings Color, Depth to Mozart in Colonial America by Cedric Westphal Sometimes it takes a lot of effort from a director to make a classic opera relevant, centuries later. In the case of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” an opera warhorse if ever there was one, the times have caught up with…