I love La Traviata. It may not be the most sophisticated opera passion, but Verdi’s score and his heroine Violeta,…
Karen Weinstein
Weinstein is a clinical psychologist who teaches in the medical school at UCLA. She also holds a master's degree in Urban Studies and has a strong interest in history and architecture, as well as the theater.
True confessions of a theater critic: I saw neither the original production, nor have I seen the movie, Funny Girl….
Chances are you have not heard of these two one act operas. You are forgiven but may regret it. Recovered…
So, you think you have a pretty good idea of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s life and art? Not according…
In comedy timing is just about everything. “Just For Us” opened on Broadway last June. It is a one man…
“Inherit the Wind,” now at the Pasadena Playhouse, may be the best argument for continuing to teach history and literature,…
The Barber of Seville has a well-earned position in the opera canon. Filled with delightful music – often familiar from…
Call him Don Giovanni or call him Don Juan, he is a character on to whom the morality of a…
Wow. What a great start to the 23/24 theatrical season in the greater LA area. To get a ticket move…
A Soldier’s Play, winner of the 1981 Pulitzer and the 2020 Tony for a revival, set in the segregated army…
In 1902, when Pelléas & Mélisande debuted, impressionistic painting had already come to a head. The impressionists had produced hazy…
Let me refresh your memory. March 1991 Rodney King, a black man, was pulled from his car and savagely beaten…