Divamensch

The 1995 Tony for Best Revival went to The Heiress. That play is both a diva and a mensch. The 1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz was an adaptation of the Henry James novella Washington Square. SPOILER ALERT! I encourage you to watch the 1949 movie if you haven't, especially if you have no familiarity with the story. It's one of the greatest Hollywood movies ever, it's one of those movies that gets better every time I see it. The central character is the plain, awkward daug

Mike and I saw *Suddenly, Last Summer* at Opera Philadelphia on Oct 25, 2026. It's an opera with music by Courtney Bryan and a libretto by Gideon Lester and Daniel Fish based on the play by Tennessee Williams. I've seen the movie (with Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift) probably five or six times and thought its overheated drama might work well for an opera. On the other hand, with something so heightened in its original state, does it need to be heigh