Thursday, April 16, 2015
Not only is she a record-setting Tony Award winner, Fresno’s own Audra McDonald is recognized for her passions offstage as well. Time magazine today named her to its list of 100 most i…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 03:04PMIn Thursday’s Life section I offer another update on Janice Noga and Oscar Speace’s “Janka,” which is continuing its remarkable off-off-Broadway run at New York’s June Havoc Theatr…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 02:49PMI got to see Leslie Ayvazian’s “Nine Armenians” in a performance bought out by an Armenian church. I sat there in the Fresno Art Museum’s sold-out Bonner Auditorium surrounded by app…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 01:31PMThursday, April 9, 2015
Here’s an academic conference with some bite to it: The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Fresno State this weekend is sponsoring the conference “Outlawed…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 03:17PMAs part of the community-wide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the play “Nine Armenians” by Leslie Ayvazian opens tonight (Thursday, April 9) at t…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 02:50PMYou’ve got to feel for the dozens of off-off-Broadway productions playing in New York at any given time. Producers can’t afford advertising in the ultra-expensive New York market…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 02:04PMMonday, April 6, 2015
When I read a few weeks ago — first in a Fresno Bee story and then in a press release online at Fresno State News, the university’s public relations site — that Fresno St…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 06:09PMA month or so ago I told you about a visit to Fresno by the well-known journalist James Fallows of The Atlantic, one of this country’s high-pedigree magazines. He’s been doing a…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 02:49PMThursday, April 2, 2015
It crystallized for me during a medicore performance of the song “Does Your Mother Know”: I wanted to send out an “S.O.S.” for the national tour of “Mamma Mia&…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 04:58PMApril’s ArtHop, which runs 5-8 p.m. at various galleries and studios in the downtown and Tower District neighborhoods, has a lot going on. In Thursday’s Life section I highlight …
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 02:49PMThe big day for Janice Noga and Oscar Speace has come. You can toss in every “wow” qualifier you can think of: It’s incredible. Remarkable. Against the odds. A pie-in-the-sky dream tha…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 02:05PMWednesday, April 1, 2015
I’m often wowed by the way Dan Pessano of Good Company Players can breathe new, exciting life into classic musicals. His “The Sound of Music” in 2012 was a stunner. And GCP…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 07:49PMIn the mood to bow down to the “Dancing Queen”? The popular Broadway musical “Mamma Mia,” based on the songs of ABBA, returns to Fresno for a third time at the Saroyan Theatre. One d…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 02:45PMMonday, March 30, 2015
In Sunday’s paper I put on my travel-writer hat and finished a three-part series on my early January trip to Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria. If there’s one overall tip I…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 08:38PMThursday, March 26, 2015
In case you missed his farewell column in last Saturday’s paper, our beloved colleague Ron Orozco is abandoning us retiring after 41 years of service to The Fresno Bee. In recognition …
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 01:54PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
The setting: The newly set up “Varekai” stage at Save Mart Center on Wednesday afternoon. It’s a Cirque du Soleil tradition to open the rehearsal on opening day briefly to the media, w…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 10:15PMMonday, March 23, 2015
I kept the tears from coming as long as I could, but I couldn’t hold out on Sunday when the Fresno Community Chorus Master Chorale neared the end of the second movement of Robert Cohen…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 08:36PMFriday, March 20, 2015
I know there are a lot of Cirque du Soleil fans out there who would love to get their hands on a pair of tickets to “Varekai,” which opens Wednesday, March 25 and continues throu…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 01:32AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Sometimes a spoonful of water can turn into a cascade. The title of Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “Water by the Spoonful” might suggest a tranquil and contem…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 04:53PMMonday, March 16, 2015
Jeromie Hansen of Painted Table fame got to hang out today with superstar foodie Alton Brown, who is appearing Tuesday at the Saroyan Theatre. Hansen admits he “nerded out” durin…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 07:44PMWhile listening to the Fresno Philharmonic’s memorable concert on Saturday night — the second installment of a three-part weekend series presenting the noted soloist Antonio Pomp…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 06:57PMSunday, March 15, 2015
I didn’t want this Beethoven-bash weekend to pass us by without tipping a hat to Bee artist John Alvin. He did the 7 section cover illustration for my story on the Fresno Philharmonic …
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 01:34PMFriday, March 13, 2015
From our friends to the south: We’re very sad about Viktor, by the way.
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 07:40PMAs a culture, we are so immersed in the online experience that we forget its influence. It’s hard to see the impact that cyberspace has on the way we communicate. The Fresno State th…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 01:59PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
The quips keep coming in “Always a Bridesmaid,” the latest Good Company offering from the playwriting machine of Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. Typical gag: One wo…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 03:32PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
James Fallows, a high-pedigree writer for The Atlantic, the high-pedigree magazine, has been having a grand time with a couple of other writers traveling to medium-sized and smaller cities i…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 09:03PMFriday, March 6, 2015
I had performances and obligations for seven out of the last eight nights, and I was so swamped I allowed one review to slip through the cracks. But I still want to post it. I saw the openin…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 08:07PMI’m going to chime in with five weekend picks — besides, of course, the last weekend of the Rogue Festival: KEYBOARD CONCERTSThe Fresno State Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Con…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 03:48PMWelcome to the last installment of our Rogue Roundup series following the daily progress of Fresno’s 14th annual Rogue Festival. We kick things off with a very special treat — an…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 03:07PMThursday, March 5, 2015
The Rogue’s Heather Parish unveils her Rogue Festival SECOND WEEKEND STRATEGY: During the second weekend of Rogue, the pressure is on to SEE ALL THE SHOWS! With over 60 acts performing…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 06:09PMIn Thursday’s Life section I highlight the work of Neil Chowdhury, who joined the Fresno State art department this academic year to teach photography. His new show at Corridor 2122, &#…
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 02:42AM 
