Category: Features – Archive

May 29, 2023 / Features - Archive

Tennessee Williams was 33 before he had a hit play, whereupon he unleashed a deluge of them, including several at the very pinnacle of open-heart surgery and psychological insight. It’s easy enough to say such plays are timeless by definition, but with two, 1957’s Suddenly Last Summer and 1947’s A…

April 17, 2023 / Features - Archive

How do you possibly turn a silent film into a musical? That was the question puzzling composer Zara Stanton when writer/director Julia Robertson approached her about collaborating on an adaptation of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece, Metropolis. But Stanton describes Robertson as “one of those people who I would follow into battle.…

March 16, 2023 / Features - Archive

After a hard day boiling in Macbeth’s intensity and wading through all the blood he spills during the play, actor Hazem Shammas has an instant release from the mire, gloom, regret and phantasmagorical evil of Shakespeare’s most complex villain. It’s one that brings him back down to earth with a…