Live Theater
Pirates of Penzance Charms, Entertains
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 10-31-2022 under OPINION
Gilbert and Sullivan, those swashbuckling Victorian showmen, had a gift for creating shows so entertaining that you could easily miss how well they were made. Ostensibly serious theater, with its obvious gestures toward importance, often has a...
The Music Man Charms Old And Young Alike
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 07-15-2022 under OPINION
The Music Man premiered sixty-five years ago (1957) and was set forty-five years before that (1912). Math-oriented readers have already deduced that 110 years separate us from the events of the play. That's a long time, longer than most of...