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 09/03/2016 Alex is the witty and scholarly Distinguished Teaching Professor specializing in Modern Drama at the University of North Texas who has published consi...
Hughie Paul Meltzer 05/03/2016 Hughie is a bit of a stepchild in the O'Neill canon. An hourlong character portrait of a small-time Runyonesque hustler, it's from the same period as...
Madama Butterfly Paul Meltzer 04/03/2016 Thank you, Fates, for putting us at the Metropolitan Opera on this rare night. Cio-cio-san, the Butterfly character upon whom the entire evening rests...
Long Day’s Journey Into Night Paul Meltzer 23/02/2016 There should be a medal for even trying to mount this theatrical Everest, running minimum three hours mostly among four principals, scaling the height...
Maestro Juanjo Mena in conversation with Paul Meltzer Paul Meltzer 10/02/2016 Juanjo Mena may be the most expressive person I’ve ever met. The BBC Philharmonic’s lead baton speaks the same way he conducts, with his whole self, h...
Il Trovatore Paul Meltzer 05/02/2016 Missing children, revenge killing, civil war, doomed love—another fabulous night at the Metropolitan Opera. And my word, this is the Verdi opera with ...
Intimacy Paul Meltzer 15/01/2016 Here’s one measure of success: I left Intimacy fully convinced that I had just witnessed an unusually brave structured improvisation, one where these ...
C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters Paul Meltzer 14/01/2016 Welcome to the “Lowerarchy”. Screwtape is a highly placed (or rather hellishly lowly placed) official in the vast administration of “Our Father Below”...
Land of Fire Paul Meltzer 22/12/2015 We must keep communicating, Land of Fire playwright Mario Diament seems to insist, despite all the blood and pain, hatred and fear, on both sides of t...
The Barber of Seville Paul Meltzer 21/12/2015 My cheeks still hurt from grinning. This Barber of Seville is giddy, witty fun throughout. Fresh as a Broadway-worthy musical comedy, it’s powered...
