27 de abril de 2024
One week before the Material Gal, Madonna and her estimated 1.5 million fans are about to invade the beaches of Copacabana, the theater of Rio de Janeiro´s iconic Hotel Copacabana Palace is hosting a series of young virt…
17 de março de 2024
Today with artificial intelligence taking over many aspects of life, this theatre-lover would like to suggest to the able producers and directors of an outstanding production of Nelson Rodrigues “The Deceased” that they…
01 de março de 2024
As the 96th edition of the Academy Awards ceremony approaches this Sunday, 10 April 2024, I –always a perennial latecomer—saw a film at the only surviving cinema here in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro called Joia (Jewel), wh…
27 de janeiro de 2024
It is three hours since I have returned from viewing a film which has deeply touched me: Bradley Cooper´s “Maestro” about the life of the Mozart of our time, American composer, pianist and Maestro Leonard Bernstein (1918…
20 de dezembro de 2023
O Rio de Janeiro não é a mesma Cidade Maravilhosa do samba, da bossa nova e da “Gal de Ipanema” que conheci quando cheguei a este suposto paraíso tropical nos anos 1970. Foi por isso que fiquei um pouco surpreendido quan…
20 de dezembro de 2023
Rio de Janeiro is not the same ‘Marvelous City’ of samba, Bossa nova and the “Gal from Ipanema “which I knew when I first arrived in this supposedly tropical paradise in the 1970s. I was therefore a bit surprised when I…
08 de novembro de 2023
Besides international films which have won awards at Cannes and other festivals, Rio de Janeiro´s current International Film Festival has some fascinating seminars including one I attended on Tuesday about Dubbing Films…
08 de novembro de 2023
Writing today his usual fascinating column for the Folha of Sao Paulo newspaper, Ruy Castro observes “Cinema is not real life.” He is referring to such films as’ Casablanca’ where Humphrey Bogart tells the police chief h…
14 de outubro de 2023
Invited weeks ago, before last week’ s massacre in Israel ,to view this monologue with scintillating live and traditional Lebanese music, this theater lover could not help asking himself if perhaps he was on Friday, open…
07 de outubro de 2023
‘Deep Fake’ via Artificial Intelligence is here ready to take over not only the media and journalism but TV, cinema and especially politics. This is my conclusion after viewing Thursday afternoon (5 October 2023) at the…
04 de outubro de 2023
Enquanto o mundo do jornalismo e da literatura parece estar abandonando lenta mas seguramente o papel em favor dos formatos de tela on-line, eBook e Kindle, o mundo teatral parece estar caminhando para peças mais longas…
04 de outubro de 2023
As the world of journalism and literature seem to be abandoning slowly but surely paper in favor of online, eBook and Kindle screen formats, the theatrical world seems headed to longer rather than short plays. Tony Kushn…
26 de setembro de 2023
The Brazilian axiom of the necessity to “slay a lion a day “to survive definitely refers to this magnificent achievement of importing and staging locally what the London Daily Telegraph has called “the most important Ame…
05 de agosto de 2023
I wish I could curb my enthusiasm but “Copacabana Palace, the Musical, “which opened Thursday evening at—where else—the Teatro Copacabana Palace, is the best theatrical I have seen in a very long time on the local stage.…
02 de julho de 2023
The portrait of an artist as a young man has been the subject of numerous memoirs,novels,films and plays by not only international authors from Ireland´s James Joyce to American playwright Eugene O´Neill but various Braz…
