When “Kinky Boots” was released as a dramatic film in 2005, it captured the attention of Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper, who saw the potential to turn the true story depicted in the film into an uplifting musical that celebrated diversity.  The result of their labors, the musical “Kinky Boots,” debuted on Broadway in […]

              Someone a lot smarter than me made an apt, if light-hearted, comparison after the New England Patriots improbably came back from a near-dead state in the Super Bowl on Sunday.  He pointed out more than a few similarities between the Pats miraculous victory and the similarly miraculous (if not similarly heralded) victory Donald Trump […]

              We are undoubtedly going to attend more than a few excellent symphonic concerts during the calendar year 2017, but we would not be at all surprised if none of them are as superbly presented as the one offered late last month by the PKF—Prague Philharmonia.  The concert, at the Mondavi Center (on the campus […]

The degree to which Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” resonates with any particular individual probably depends on that person’s own life experiences.  For those who hold to an idealistic view of human interactions where true love conquers the worst human impulses, the thesis Pinter explores may seem hollow, if not cynical.  But for anyone who has lived […]