Dr. Alexander Pettit in Conversation with Paul Meltzer about Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Undermain in Dallas Paul Meltzer 09/03/2016Alex is the witty and scholarly Distinguished Teaching Professor specializing in Modern Drama at the University of North Texas who...
Reviewer's Rating Hughie Paul Meltzer 05/03/2016ughie is a bit of a stepchild in the O’Neill canon. An hourlong character portrait of a small-time Runyonesque hustler, it’s...
Reviewer's Rating Madama Butterfly Paul Meltzer 04/03/2016hank you, Fates, for putting us at the Metropolitan Opera on this rare night. Cio-cio-san, the Butterfly character upon whom...
Reviewer's Rating Long Day’s Journey Into Night Paul Meltzer 23/02/2016here should be a medal for even trying to mount this theatrical Everest, running minimum three hours mostly among four...
Maestro Juanjo Mena in conversation with Paul Meltzer Paul Meltzer 10/02/2016Juanjo Mena may be the most expressive person I’ve ever met. The BBC Philharmonic’s lead baton speaks the same way...
Reviewer's Rating Il Trovatore Paul Meltzer 05/02/2016issing children, revenge killing, civil war, doomed love—another fabulous night at the Metropolitan Opera. And my word, this is the...
Reviewer's Rating Intimacy Paul Meltzer 15/01/2016ere’s one measure of success: I left Intimacy fully convinced that I had just witnessed an unusually brave structured improvisation,...
Reviewer's Rating C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters Paul Meltzer 14/01/2016elcome to the “Lowerarchy”. Screwtape is a highly placed (or rather hellishly lowly placed) official in the vast administration of...
Reviewer's Rating Land of Fire Paul Meltzer 22/12/2015e must keep communicating, Land of Fire playwright Mario Diament seems to insist, despite all the blood and pain, hatred...
Reviewer's Rating The Barber of Seville Paul Meltzer 21/12/2015y cheeks still hurt from grinning. This Barber of Seville is giddy, witty fun throughout. Fresh as a Broadway-worthy musical...
