Category: Theater

• Dido and Aeneas, Spoleto Festival Preview

  “This ‘jewel’, as Director Chen Shi-Zheng calls it, is the first important English opera ever written, standing somewhere in time — in 1689 — between the operas of Monteverdi and Gluck.” From S.E. Barcus’ Charleston City Paper archives.

  S.E. Barcus

  Music, Musical, Opera, Performing Arts, Symphony, Theater

  Charleston, Dido, Dido and Aeneas, Spoleto

• Kurt Weill’s Die Bürgschaft, Spoleto Festival Preview

  

  Spoleto presents Kurt Weill’s Die Burgschaft, preview. From the S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.

  S.E. Barcus

  Music, Musical, Opera, Performing Arts, Symphony, Theater

  Burgschaft, Charleston, Opera, Spoleto, Weill

• Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, Spoleto Festival Preview

  

  Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, preview. From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.

  S.E. Barcus

  Music, Musical, Opera, Performing Arts, Theater

  Charleston, Laurie Anderson, Moby Dick, Spoleto Festival

• Seattle 2025 Fall Dramatic Arts Preview

  

  While we cannot right the Earth’s tilt, there are some consolation prizes for contending with the dark.  With most everyone hunkering down, the dramatic arts kick into high gear again, and really thrive, starting in the fall.  … In the land of the Big Dumper, let’s get our Big Bottoms off the couch and into…

  S.E. Barcus

  Mediated (e.g., film), Performing Arts, Theater

  2025, Can Can, Fall, Fall Arts, Film, Jet City, On the Boards, Opera, Paramount, Preview, Rep, Seattle, Theater, Village Theatre, ZinZanni