Playing Around

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 Based on the novel by Muriel Spark and the play by Jay Presson Allen. Directed by Ronald Neame. Jean [...]

Stage Door 1937 Very loosely adapted from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. Directed by Gregory La Cava. With Katharine [...]

Brooklyn’s Irondale Theater Ensemble, self described as “the intersection of art, education, community engagement and social justice” [...]

The road that leads to the encounter with opera is totally distinctive for each one of us. My friend, writer Joseph Tirella, shared his [...]

Age of Consent 1969 Directed by Michael Powell. Twenty-four year-old Helen Mirren (sometimes gloriously nude) in her first major film role [...]

Week 6 of the Met’s Nightly Opera Stream kicks off with two early 20th century operas (Elektra premiered in 1909 and Tosca in 1900) and [...]

Frederic Chopin – A Song To Remember – 1945 Directed by Charles Vidor. Cornel Wilde plays Chopin. With Paul Muni and Merle [...]

“I have never seen an opera so where should I start?”  Our initial response to opera, whether we experience it as children or [...]