South Pacific

Theater: "Joe Turner's Come..." To Broadway And Will Stay For A While

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Theater, Revival, Broadway, South Pacific, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Opera, August Wilson, Bartlett Sher, New York-New York, Entertainment News

Director Bartlett Sher's revival of August Wilson's magnificent play Joe Turner's Come and Gone has just opened on Broadway to rave reviews.

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Tolerance Is Not For Rent

Jason Mannino | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living

Read More: West Side Story, Racism, South Pacific, Proposition 8, Tolerance, Rent, Living News

This week, for the first time in Oscar history, a political protest is being staged (in the past they have only been health related for breast cancer ...

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Admiring Continents

Pablo Ganguli | Posted 01.29.2009 | Style

Read More: India, Michel Foucault, South Pacific, Morocco, New Delhi, Mumbai, Travel, Film, Mothers, Paris, Papua New Guinea, Jacques Derrida, Calcutta, North Africa, Quentin Crisp, Sagittarius, Marrakesh, Traveling, Africa, Moms, Europe, Style News

I still do not know what possessing Indian nationality signifies. I have always felt so very un-Indian with only rare flashbacks of nostalgia for things from the sub-continent.

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Where Climate Change Catastrophe is NOT a Hypothetical

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, South Pacific, Australia, Climate Crisis, New Zealand, Global Warming, Green News

Just this month, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by ...

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Exclusive: South Pacific's David Pittsinger Speaks Out

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: South Pacific, David Pittsinger, Opera, Rodgers & Hammestein, Broadway, Tony Winner, Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot, Gene Robinson, Entertainment News

If Rahm Emmanuel considered a career in ballet, it shouldn't be any surprise to find out that opera and Broadway star David Pittsinger -- currently starring in the hit revival of South Pacific -- was drawn to politics.

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The Oracle at Delphi

Michael Jones | Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Melanesian, Ganges River, South Pacific, Oracle at Delphi, World War II, Melanesia, Chicago News

He told us that nobody was ever wounded in the movies. He would drink his Irish whiskey neat and tell us about the effect of high explosives on human beings.

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Confessions of a South Pacific groupie?

Abigail Pogrebin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: South Pacific Paul Szot, South Pacific, South Pacific Revival, South Pacific Reviews, Lincoln Center, Theater, Some Enchanted Evening, Love, Paul Szot, Lincoln Center Theater, Entertainment News

Beneath my New York armor, I'm as corny as Kansas; The recent revival of South Pacific reminded me of all the lovers kept apart by this endless war and how atypical it is to love blatantly, putting devotion ahead of all else.

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The Ultimate Sacrifice

Amy Ephron | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: South Pacific, Memorial Day, Frank Rich, Bush Giving Up Golf, Politics News

Bush has given up golf, but has he given up hunting dove, one of his favorite pastimes at the Crawford Ranch?

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South Pacific -- Musical Orientalism

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood, Orientalism, Culture, South Pacific, South Pacific Revival, Hollywood Chinese, Musical, Entertainment News

What is most stunning is how this musical is greeted so uncritically. Popular discussions in the media have got to be a little more sophisticated than this.

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CULTURE ZOHN: Women, Men and Water at Lincoln Center

Patricia Zohn | Posted 04.04.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera, La Boheme, South Pacific, Franco Zefferelli, Lincoln Center Theater, New Directors/New Films, Museum of Modern Art, Entertainment News

What is it about women, men and water? This week, everyone I saw on stage or screen was jumping or landing in cold water to make a change in their lives.

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Microscope of Grief

Steven Denlinger | Posted 02.22.2008 | Living

Read More: The Pirates of Penzance, Nuclear Reactor, Buick Skylark, Genevieve Morgan, The French Inquisitor, South Pacific, Amanda Swineheart, Drew Struzan, Conservative Mennonite, John David Drake, Kimberley Melin, Hoover High School, Laura Schmidt, Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, Mike Melin, Akron General Hospital, Marjorie Denlinger, Ohio, Rick Campbell, AP College Board, Wendy Wagler, Theodore Leaf, 1998 Viking Yearbook, Erie, Healthsouth, Living News

What kind of pain does an artist with an overheated core experience within a conservative Mennonite community like ours?

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Coming to Los Angeles: Labyrinth

Steven Denlinger | Posted 02.15.2008 | Home

Read More: John H. Hayward, Sweden, Romeo and Juliet, South Pacific, Expatriates, Kimberley Melin, The Turnstile Jumpers, Vincent Shaw, Brady Bunch, Laban Coblentz, The Bread Loaf School of English, May Fiesta, Lincoln College, Steve Ridgway, London, North Canton City Schools, North Canton Players, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gelassenheit, Heath Detweiler, The Oedipus Experiment, A Cappella, A Night at the Opera, Ohio, Rick Campbell, Russia, Lisa DeSantis, Oxford University, Shirley Anne Jackson, The Old Routine, Mennonite, Stark County, The Pirates of Penzance, Cruel Intentions, John David Drake, Ring of Kerry, Michael Melin, Jill Shrewsbury, Canton Civic Opera, American Dream, A Night at the Prom, Middlebury College, Lake District, Akron, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, Kendrick Strauch, Republicans, Kenya, Queen, Tybalt, Home News

The novella 'Coming to Los Angeles' continues as a serial this week. Chapter 1: Labyrinth IN THE FALL OF 1998, I was teaching in the North Canton C...

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