“News of the World” is a western film in the old tradition. A good guy, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd played…
Karren LaLonde Alenier
Karren Alenier is a swing-dancing poet whose opera, Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On, with composer William Banfield and New York City’s Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy Rhodes premiered in New York City in June 2005. She writes a monthly column for scene4.com entitled "The Steiny Road to Operadom." Read about her forthcoming book on opera—The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas at alenier.blogspot.com.
If you have been aching to travel, to get on the road and forget about the new normal of life…
Prejudice, procreation, and mixed marriage form a comic triangle in The Last Conception by director Gabriela Ledesma. The story centers…
Tightly wound and intimate as tango dancing itself, the film Glories of Tango by Oliver Kolker and Hernán Findling is…
A good comedic film is much harder to create than a dramatic one. The distributor for Jonathan Smith, a 2004…
The Washington National Opera production of “Moby-Dick” is a crowd pleaser. Jake Heggie’s music is tonal, sometimes glancing off Puccini,…
Masterful, magnetic, and entertaining best describe the outstanding performance seen Feb. 6 by stage and screen star Kathleen Turner in…
The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Elizabethan theater has been transformed from its usual proscenium stage to theater in the round for…
If you were sorry you missed South African artist William Kentridge’s 2010 production of Igor Stravinsky’s short opera “The…
In the opening program of its 40th anniversary season, the Verge Ensemble, the performance group of the Contemporary Music Forum,…
Synetic Theater’s brand of physical theater emphasizes speechless Shakespeare. For this adaptation of “Twelfth Night,” the company advanced the setting…
Making his Kennedy Center debut, pianist David Greilsammer is not only a talented musician but also a man with engaging…
Deborah Voigt in the title role of “Salome” Photo by Scott Suchman Salome Music and libretto by Richard Strauss (in…
Hamlet Liam Bonner and Elizabeth Futral in Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” at Washington National Opera Opera in five acts Music by…