It has been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And that seems to be true of the "Way to Heaven" by Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, which will run through Sunday at the New Jewish Theatre. Jewish Light critic Robert Cohn has already...
Nov. 6-12 is Media Literacy Week, during which we are urged to focus on how we view, process and react to news and information. Groups like the local Gateway Media Literacy Partners (www.gmlpstl.org) promote the importance of critical reading skills...
Art is life. Art isn't life.It's life because it's so often from here-and-now reality that artists derive their inspiration. The water lilies Monet obsessed upon were most definitely real. Shakespeare and Moliere poked much fun at the social niceties...
Can We Talk? series draws responsesIn the op-ed piece by Karen Aroesty (June 8), she concludes, "Terrorism can never be justified, even when cloaked in the respectability of artistic license." I absolutely agree.However, after seeing the dress rehearsal...
By Lew Prince, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 15, 2011
Let's set the politics of "The Death of Klinghoffer" aside for a moment and look at what you're getting into if you spend an evening at Opera Theatre of St. Louis (OTSL) with John Adams' music and Alice Goodman's libretto. Ultimately, any artwork intended...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 15, 2011
It isn't just live performances such as "The Death of Klinghoffer" that can raise questions of propriety and appropriateness. The silver screen isn't immune to such debates.Of course, not every work that raises difficult issues is controversial. Films...
BY RABBI HOWARD KAPLANSKY
• Published June 15, 2011
The June 8 issue of the Jewish Light included, as part of its "Can We Talk?" series, two perspectives on "The Death of Klinghoffer," an opera to be presented by Opera Theatre St. Louis. The opera derives its title from the murder, by Palestine Liberation...
Interfaith understanding and ‘Klinghoffer' operaI commend the efforts of the Jewish Light, through its articles in the current issue, in addressing issues raised by the scheduled performance of "The Death of Klinghoffer" by Opera Theatre of St. Louis.The...
In 2003, I experienced perhaps the most moving performance I'd ever seen in a theater. I was attending a concert of John Adams's "The Death of Klinghoffer" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In an auditorium with 2,000 other post-September-11th New Yorkers,...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 1, 2011
Kathleen Sitzer was braced for the impact but it never came. "Surprisingly, it was extremely positive," she said. "I was all prepared for a lot of flak about it. I didn't get it and I was delighted." It was 2005 and Sitzer, artistic director of the New...
By Larry Levin and Ellen Futterman, Publisher/CEO and EDITOR
• Published June 1, 2011
When we envisioned our new series that combines news analysis with public discussion, we had a working name, News and Views, which described the concept but didn't bring it to life. So when in a working meeting with our friends and partners at the Jewish...
