38 stories by "Donald Munro"
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…
In 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 Theatre. While n…
I 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 approving a…
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: Th…
As 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…
You’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…
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 — Â that Fresno …
A 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 doingÂ�…
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 Mi…
April’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 …
The 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 that actu…
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…
In 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 differenc…
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…
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 …
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, who ten…
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…
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…
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…
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…
While 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…
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 …
From our friends to the south: We’re very sad about Viktor, by the way.
As 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 Stat…
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…
