La bohème
I have always thought of La bohème as two operas. The first two acts are full of joie de vivre and exhibit a carefree attitude to love and life that…
Apollo to the Moon: We Were Explorers
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in July, two major players from the Apollo days of the 1960s and 70s appeared in Austin at…
Tokyo PRIDE
Tokyo, the world’s most populous city at 35 million, held its Gay Pride parade on April 28 and Sun News was there to cover the event! The lead picture shows…
Inslee’s Higher Mission
“We went to the Moon because we were called by a higher mission. We need a bugle call to fight climate change.” Washington state Governor Jay Inslee, 68, hopes the…
Copenhagen: A Wild Improbability
This play about physics is, to use words uttered within the play itself, “a wild improbability.” Written by Michael Frayn, Copenhagen premiered in London in 1998. The Broadway opening in…
THE GATES OF HELL: First Black Hole Image
“We’re looking at a region that we’ve never looked at before — a region we cannot imagine being there. It feels like looking at the gates of Hell, at the…
Matilda the Musical
Imagine being assaulted on all sides by horrific parents in the evening and a sadistic school headmistress during the day. Then imagine acting out all of the abuse on stage,…
Hagans: Art, Truth and Lies
“Art is cool because we get to tell the truth through lies.” When R.C. Hagans was three, he found a sharpie and scribbled around all four walls of his house.…
Parlour Game of Infidelity
English farce is a highly respected art form, but the play Don’t Dress for Dinner presents it with a twist of lemon: it was originally written for the French theatre.…
Grim Indeed
Even when the first volumes of Grimms’ Fairy Tales were published in the early 19th century they were not regarded as suitable for children, even though they were entitled “children’s…