Lewis Whittington writes about the performing and film arts for many publications. He is a renegade dance, theater and opera queen, a jazz-head and a civil activist.
Books & CDs
Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam (2002), David Kaufman Charles Ludlam was a man of the theater with the ego of no less personages than Moliere, Shakespeare and Wilde.As ...
Television
Last seen in the Hamptons attending the straight wedding of ex-gay cabaret entertainer Bobby Fine (Nathan Lane) and aging socialite Bitsy Von Muffling, the heroines of HBO’s Sex and the City are now starting up their 6th and final ...
Film
There is a famous story about the making of the film adaptation of Tennessee William's notorious Suddenly, Last Summer that starred Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn, as Violet Venable was so obsessed with her dead son, Sebastian, ...
Television
There’s an old saying that goes "the dead can’t hurt you," but in the case of the new Showtime series Dead Like Me they certainly have the power to bore you to death. After the runaway hit Queer as ...
Film
Even though a nosebleed epidemic threatened or killed most of the characters in the closing episode of last season's The League of Gentlemen, many inhabitants did in fact survive to return for the new season about to be unleashed ...
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Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia Placido Domingo With Ana Maria Martinez Eugene Kohn, conductor Feb. 16, 2009 Verizon Hall, Philadelphia http://www.chamberorchestra.org/ Superstar tenor Placido Domingo could have easily traded on his movie star aura to walk through the fundraiser ...
Music
Don Pasquale Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia March 3, 2009 Donizetti Director David Gately Conductor Richard A. Raub Jeremy Paul Milner, Ryan Kuster, Zulimar L�pez-Hern�ndez, Corinne Winters Taylor Stayton, Joseph Demarest http://www.avaopera.org/ Opera director David Gately’s Wild West version ...
Music
Ottorino Respighi Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) Philadelphia, PA Conducted by Christopher Macatsoris Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center Jan. 23, 24, 27, 2009 http://www.avaopera.com/season/lafiamma/ The Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) performed Ottorino Respighi’s opera ‘la Fiamma‘ in a ...
Music
You know you’re in trouble when “Un Bel Di Vedremo”, one of the most moving arias in Opera, leaves you cold. But coldness is all you possibly can feel from Robert Wilson’s staging of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Paris ...
