It is a rare treat to be able to critique an opera from a straight forwardly dramatic point of view….
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.
You’ve gotta have a gimmick, or so goes the song. Pianist Hershey Felder has his. Over twenty years ago he…
Here is the challenge: Is it possible for a self-described “mass of undesirable, unlovable, unemployable, unacceptable fat, Black homosexual molecules…
Right at the start, a gurney with a body draped in a coroner’s sheet; no question where the next two…
If it seems like everyone in the opera world is performing Turandot, you are right. Not only is Turandot a…
I love La Traviata. It may not be the most sophisticated opera passion, but Verdi’s score and his heroine Violeta,…
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…