By Tara Mitton Catao With a weighty theme and a cumbersome title, Ballet Austin’s Saturday night performance of Light/The Holocaust and Humanity Project at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts was anything but that. In short, it was arresting. Artistic Director Stephen Mills’ evening-length work depicted a timeless universality molded by the purposeful choices Mills made … [Read more...]
Postcard From Broadway No. 7: ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Casa Valentina’
Twenty years ago, the movie dynamo Disney Studios tried its hand at a Broadway musical with Beauty and the Beast, a stage clone of its Oscar-winning animated film. The show was rudimentary at best, not much more than a theme park diversion, but audiences ate it up and the show ran for 13 years. Since then, Disney has been a major producer of theater product, ranging from such … [Read more...]