ArtwordBlog

Author: Ronald Weihs

  • The Circle Unbroken

    —

    by

    Ronald Weihs
    in

    Alice Weihs at her 90th birthday party at PAL. Taken by Alla Palagina. My mother Alice died last Wednesday (February 18, 2015) in the early morning. She was in my house in Hamilton, where Judith and I had been looking after her since last November. She was born on August 27, 1921, and had a…

  • Pete Seeger refuses to provide metadata to HUAC

    —

    by

    Ronald Weihs
    in ,

    Pete Seeger, noted folk singer entertaining at the opening of the Washington labor canteen, with Eleanor Roosevelt (Source: Library of Congress) Peter Seeger was a huge influence on my life, musically, politically and spiritually. When he died at last, like so many others, I reviewed what I knew and loved about him. Thanks to Mark…

  • From Morning to Midnight, at the National

    —

    by

    Ronald Weihs
    in ,

    Written in 1912, Georg Kaiser’s expressionist drama From Morning to Midnight has been given a bravura treatment in a new version by Dennis Kelly. I joined the queue for day seats at 8:30 on a Wednesday, and snagged two matinee tickets, along with two evening tickets for the second preview of King Lear. What a…

  • Adini Söyle / Say Your Name, at the Arcola

    —

    by

    Ronald Weihs
    in ,

    The Arcola Theatre, up in rough-and-tumble Dalston, is a hotbed of alternative vitality, always trying out new ideas and approaches, politically engaged, with a perspective that spans the globe. The theatre, formerly in a rambling industrial building on Arcola Street, moved a few blocks south in January 2011, a few steps from the Dalston Junction overground…

  • Protest Song, at The Shed

    —

    by

    Ronald Weihs
    in ,

    The Shed, at the National The Occupy movement in London had its camp in the square outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, a location that was already occupied by “rough sleepers”, the current British term for what in North Armerica are called “street people”. A new one-person play, Protest Song, by Tim Price, imagines the interaction between…

  • Fortune’s Fool, at the Old Vic

    —

    by

    Ronald Weihs
    in ,

    Saint Paul’s from across the river. So our first real day in London (December 31), we rush over to the Old Vic, and are fortunate to get tickets for Fortune’s Fool by Turgenev, in a translation by Mike Poulton. There’s a discrete sign in the lobby saying that due to the indisposition of John McAndrew,…