INTERVIEW: SHANA BLAKE HILL BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO When you think of opera composers, Mozart, Wagner, or Verdi, might come to mind, and the name Erich Korngold doesn’t even make the list. Korngold was a man of the movies after all. The Austrian-born composer moved to the U.S. in 1934 to escape the Nazi regime, […]

REVIEW: THREE PENNY OPERA, A NOISE WITHIN THEATER By RYAN M. LUÉVANO The Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill 1928 classic The Threepenny Opera makes it’s way to A Noise Within Theater in Pasadena, a production that permeates with high theater values and purpose. “Money rules the world!,” “Show us the legs that men admire,” from […]