Theater: Miami’s Mad Cat Theatre Company has figured out how to attract young people to sit for live shows, and it is not to offer them “well-made” plays like their grandparents craved. Instead, they have carved out their niche with non-linear absurdist fare like So My Grandmother Died, Blah Blah Blah, written and directed by Paul Tei, who founded the troupe. At its core, it is … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2011
At Tanglewood, a sublime ‘Orlando’
LENOX, Mass. -- Conductor Nicholas McGegan brought San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to Tanglewood about two weeks ago to perform Handel’s rarely given opera Orlando in Ozawa Hall. Home of the Boston Symphony in the summer, Tanglewood is where James Levine, as music director, dazzled opera lovers in last year’s mounting of Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. Alas, he left … [Read more...]