Playing Around

FIRST: What Price Hollywood 1932 Loosely based on the experiences of actress Colleen Moore and her husband, alcoholic producer John [...]

In Week 8 we begin with Figaro getting married in the sequel to The Barber of Seville—Mozart’s enchanting opera The Marriage of Figaro. [...]

A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Adapted from Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play. Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring the [...]

Even if you know nothing about opera, if you like movies, sooner or later you are bound to come across operatic music as part of a [...]

Missing live stage plays? There’s a way you can watch online with Play-Per- View, “an organization that believes in the power [...]

Citizen Kane 1941 Wunderkind Orson Welles is producer, co-screenwriter (with Herman Mankiewicz), director, and star. A quasi- biopic [...]

Thoughts on Ridley Scott’s Underrated Film and Cormac McCarthy’s Philosophical Gem. For some time now, I have been fascinated by Ridley [...]

This is a truly historical week—literally—as we begin with the Tudor Queens trilogy, a trio of operas by Gaetano Donizetti based on the [...]