Tag: Vol. 23 No. 33

“Alot of my taste for theater came from seeing concerts of Genesis and Jethro Tull,” says Robert Lepage, the Quebec writer, director, performer, and designer who at 35 is artistic director of Canada’s national theater and was recently named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, one of Canada’s highest artistic honors. His […]

Rock ‘n’ roll’s unforgiving codes work in mysterious and sometimes shocking ways. Consider the disdain with which Elvis Costello is widely held outside of the too-respectful mainstream rock press. That disdain has to do with the fact that over the past five years he’s firmly established himself as the first punk geezer–a symptom not of […]

Penn and Teller’s strange method of entertainment (their Obie was awarded to them for “whatever it is it’s called they do”) is basically self-conscious performance art that happens to have its roots in magic. This makes their shows at once more fun than your average performance art and more thoughtful than your average evening with […]

Freud meets Marx in this clever 1979 adaptation by Joseph Losey of Mozart’s operatic masterpiece. Don Giovanni, as portrayed by the scowling baritone Ruggero Raimondi, is a cynical and cruel yet oddly vulnerable bisexual who no longer gets a kick out of his compulsive behavior; the aristocratic milieu that is his hunting ground is suffering […]