Word: giftedness
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As might be expected with Paganini's work in general, the violin usually has the more interesting of the two parts, and I compliment Sollscher for his consistently sensitive playing. Shaham is right at home in the genre, and considering his knuckle-busting recording of Wieniawski's first violin concerto...
America has a strange taste in atrocities and an elastic attention span for them. The 10,000 African children who die each day of starvation can hardly cop a headline, but Tonya and Nancy held our fascination for weeks. Some see O.J. Simpson as a hero, not guilty by reason...
When Neil Simon was fresh from his days as a TV writer, he thought comedy was one-liners. As he matured, Simon learned that the most enjoyable laughs come from character and situation. Of Lost in Yonkers he boasted -- correctly -- that its funniest scene has not one joke. Paul Rudnick...
Like many of its fellow dorms, Canaday is getting its bathrooms redone. But the Yard's newest dorm is also being gifted with a unique touch, a ventilation system for its bathrooms designed to eliminate the problem of moisture condensation leaking into the rest of the building.
Kingston has complained that critics, while generous, misread her work as being about China rather than America. Berkeley Rep artistic director Sharon Ott, the latest in a mob of adapters who have spent nearly two decades trying to find a dramatic idiom for Kingston's work, calls the central character...