Tuesday, October 27, 2020

LIFE WILL SMILE – REVIEW OF STUNNING FILM ABOUT THE JEWS OF ZAKYNTHOS

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  Reviewed by James Karas Before World War II, there were 77,377 Jews in Greece living in 25 communities across the country. At the end of...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

PERSIANS - REVIEW OF STREAMED PRODUCTION FROM EPIDAURUS

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James Karas The National Theatre of Greece has scored a coup by streaming Aeschylus’s Persians directly from the Ancient Theatre of Epida...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

SHAKESPEARE FIGHTS COVID-19 TWELFTH NIGHT FROM THE NATIONAL THEATRE

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Reviewed by James Karas The National Theatre is doing its bit to help us survive the covid-19 pandemic by enlisting Shakespeare and br...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

THE EVENTS - REVIEW OF NECESSARY ANGEL THEATRE PRODUCTION

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James Karas Alan Dilworth, the director of The Events , describes the play as “one of the most simple and yet complex” he has ever encou...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

OIL – REVIEW OF ARC PRODUCTION OF ELLA HICKSON’S PLAY

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Reviewed by James Karas OIL  is an extremely ambitious play by British playwright Ella Hickson. It premiered in London in 2016 and ARC i...
Monday, March 9, 2020

HISTORY OF GREEK SONG – REVIEW OF ChiJazz PERFORMANCE AT GREEK COMMUNITY

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Reviewed by James Karas If you think a program titled The History of Greek Song – Part II is some boring lecture for students of cul...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

H.M.S. PINAFORE – REVIEW OF 2020 TORONTO OPERETTA THEATRE PRODUCTION

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Reviewed by James Karas Can you go wrong by producing H.M.S. Pinafore? Neither can Toronto Operetta Theatre in its staging of Gil...