Posts Tagged ‘Denis O’hare’
‘An Iliad’ is Even Richer the Second Time
To say that war is hell is to speak a cliché, but to say that war is poetry sounds intriguing. Until, of course, you stop to think and realize that some of the oldest extant literature is actually poetry about war…
Read MoreHoping for a Better Life in Manhattan
Director/choreographer, Ray Limon, recently staged several musicals at the Welk Resort Theatre that have connections to Bob Fosse. After well-received productions of Chicago and Cabaret (Fosse directed the motion picture version), Limon’s latest Fosse influenced interpretation is the 1966 comedy-drama, Sweet Charity.
Read MoreWar Is Always With Us
It took humanity a while to figure out war. Archeologists dig up pits full of slaughtered families. Geneticists find some tribes flourished while others vanished. But this might be mere jostling. War didn’t hit the Big Time until it found its historian. Around the 6th Century B.C., somebody wrote down the ancient oral tales,…
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