January 28, 2012
By JOHN DeMERS
As a card-carrying member of opera’s Old Chestnuts (big thanks here to my late father, who made me invariably think of them as that), Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata...
January 27, 2012
By JOHN DeMERS
To say something is “like an opera” is another way of saying it resembles the cruel and often deadly succession of...
January 11, 2012
Broadway Across America, Hobby Center through Jan. 15
By JOHN DeMERS
Surely, those who watched the cheeky old Addams Family TV...
January 8, 2012
By JOHN DeMERS
To watch any play by Anton Chekhov, written as they were at the turn of the 20th century, is in some ways to witness the turn of the 21st. Not only was Theater...
December 1, 2011
By SARA E. DeMERS and AMANDA C. DeMERS
After our review last week of the ongoing Alley Theatre production of “A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story of Christmas,” we’d like...
November 22, 2011
By JOHN DeMERS
The Alley Theatre hedges its bets each holiday season by presenting its fairly traditional version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in tandem with David Sedaris’ wildly...
November 19, 2011
By JOHN DeMERS
I was lucky enough to see the Beatles perform live twice – at City Park...
