The irresistible paradox of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is its gritty transcendence. It is grounded but out of body, a free-floating passage through a quotidian life with all its tedium and worries (baldness, aging, misunderstanding), as well as its elusive pleasures (flirting, art, peaches). With sad humor, it both acknowledges […]
Archives for June 21, 2019
She trains others for the spotlight. Now Deb Gottesman finds her own in Keegan’s comedy Ripcord.
As co-founder and co-executive director of The Theatre Lab, Deb Gottesman is a well known and respected director and teacher, preparing up-and-coming actors for a life in the theatre. Now, after an absence of nearly 20 years from a professional stage, Gottesman has returned to acting and is starring opposite Claire Schoonover, a graduate of […]
First Look: James F. Bruns’ Fringe show: Caribbean Command
I guess I was “nervous in the service.” But who wasn’t in those fretful days after September 11, 2001? So when the telephone rang just after the Presidential Mobilization Order came out and I saw it was a DOD number, I knew I was being recalled. Ordered to Active Duty for one year. To Headquarters. At the United States […]
GALA Theatre will offer plays, dance and film in 2019-2020
GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 2019-2020 season will feature a beloved classic from the Golden Age of Spanish theater leading into two plays by contemporary writers, interspersed with dance, theater for young audience, films and performance pieces. GALA will initiate its season with Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life is a Dream, the story of a King […]