The Vargas Blog

 Yes, Broadway has been back for a while, stumbling out of the COVID-19 nightmare in spurts. But this afternoon was MY first time back insid...

The problem with Bartlett Sher is that he is a gifted theater director, but those same creative gifts don't materialize when he dons hi...

I was there. Well, not exactly there, because Licorice Pizza , Paul Thomas Anderson 's latest film is so SoCal that even its title, the ...

I knew one day we would all have to go through this. The once young, vibrant enfant terrible of the Broadway stage, the one who dazzled us w...

The month of November saw the Metropolitan Opera stage a revival of their 30 year-old production of Richard Wagner 's Die Meistersinger...

With his latest film, Parallel Mothers ( Madres Paralelas ) Pedro Almodóvar comes back to the world of feminine relations, a landscape he...

With his familiar tongue-in-cheek deadpan that makes Buster Keaton appear like a loquacious lady at a garden party, Wes Anderson brings us...

 After a long time not posting on this blog, I am glad to say that I am back. Many things happened during that time. There were deaths in th...

Bayreuth 2020 has been canceled due to COVID-19, but music will continue over the Internet.  Below is the complete schedule of the alter...

With the COVID-19 pandemic raging around the country, and all sorts of sports having to take a back seat to health and safe hygiene requir...

Ennio Morricone , the composer of 400 film scores among them The Good, The Bad and the Ugly , Once Upon a Time in America , Once Upon a Ti...

Today would have been the first day of Spain's annual celebration of men (and women) with balls big enough to run in front of a pack o...

Is this the right time to show Hamilton on the new streaming service, Disney+ ? Months ago, maybe even weeks ago it would have been the p...

Rifkin's Festival is Woody Allen 's new film, and it will premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival . Since Spain has been able t...

Sir Ian Holm , one of the great British actors of stage and screen, died yesterday at the age of 88. That memorable, even disgusting pictu...

The year 2020 will be remembered not only because the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the  Bayreuth Festival to close its doors for the firs...

Perhaps no production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth has caused so much controversy in the last two decades as Frank Castorf ...

I'm not a very avid or faithful TV watcher. I never saw Friends , but I hear today that its creator, Marta Kauffman is apologizing fo...

Gone With the Wind , the 1939 multiple Oscar-winning film that many critics view as one of the greatest ever made in the history of Americ...

The Metropolitan Opera has decided to cancel the September 21 Opening Night Gala of the new production of Giuseppe Verdi 's Aida . Ev...