Musical Genius All in the Family in Fair ‘The Other Mozart’

By Martin Jones Westlin | June 14, 2016 |

The evidence is sketchy, but it looks like two of the world’s greatest composers may have met in one of Vienna’s greatest artistic mind-melds. The year was 1787, and a star-struck Ludwig van Beethoven was quaking in his boots; his idol Johann Chrysostomus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had kindly requested an impromptu mini-concert, exchanging a lesson…

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Good Ion Double Bill Not As Scary As It Seems

By Martin Jones Westlin | March 12, 2014 |

“Edgar & Annabel” and “Far Away,” ion theatre company’s current double bill, has us locked into a future of worldwide oppression and conflict, which is precisely what won’t transpire in human history. But the production values transcend all that in this very well-crafted piece of theater.

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