Paul Festa

  • Naked on the set! Finale

    Wherein my life becomes a surreal blend of "Hedwig" and "All About Eve."
    By Paul Festa April 4, 2003

  • Naked on the set! Part 5

    Some post-audition debauchery leads our frustrated hero to take matters into his own hands. (OK, there were a couple of other people in the bed.)
    By Paul Festa March 26, 2003

  • Naked on the set! Part 4: Archive fever

    It all boiled down to that courting query that my generation and adjacent ones will go to our erotic graves asking: "Hot or not?"
    By Paul Festa March 20, 2003

  • Naked on the set! Part 3

    Wherein I learn that it's not a good idea to teach your mother how to Google and that good chamber music is like doing it onstage.

    Read Part 1 and Part 2

    By Paul Festa March 18, 2003

  • Naked on the set! Part 2

    I meet the director and struggle with my biggest question: Will he make me a star? Or will my audition expose me as a fraud?
    By Paul Festa March 14, 2003

  • Naked on the set!

    As I prepare to audition for the new X-rated film project by "Hedwig" creator John Cameron Mitchell, I'm left to wonder: Will he think I have the whole package? Part 1 in a series.
    By Paul Festa March 13, 2003

  • "Mussolini," by R.J.B. Bosworth

    He fought duels, seduced women, crashed planes, allied with Hitler, lost a war and ran Italy into the ground, but at heart Il Duce considered himself an artist.
    By Paul Festa July 9, 2002

  • "Indira" by Katherine Frank

    Indira Gandhi led the most populous democracy in the world, but finally, ruthless and paranoid, she couldn't resist the temptation of tyranny.
    By Paul Festa March 26, 2002

  • Executioner's song

    The ravaged lives of two men hired to pull the switch testify to the hidden costs of America's death penalty.
    By Paul Festa December 4, 2001

  • Dead man singing

    "Dead Man Walking," the opera version, opens in San Francisco. Is it a misguided abuse of the genre -- or a radical reworking of operatic stagecraft?
    By Paul Festa October 11, 2000

  • As long as he doesn't sound gay

    The mayoral candidate who articulated a growing angst in San Francisco may have been hurt at the polls because of the voice he said it in.
    By Paul Festa December 16, 1999

  • Flaming man

    Queer erotics has its place in the sun at Burning Man's utopia. How fitting that the sun got too hot.
    By Paul Festa September 16, 1999

  • Does a good conductor have anything to say after 10 years?

    While Boston Symphony patriots bemoaned the loss of 25-year conductor Seiji Ozawa, members of his orchestra said that it's been a long time coming.
    By Paul Festa June 28, 1999

  • Mommie Dearest in drag

    Why would Joan Crawford's daughter embrace the gay cult that thinks her child abuse, detailed in her memoir 'Mommie Dearest,' is one big campy joke?
    By Paul Festa July 1, 1998

  • Sharps and Flats: John Dowland

     
    By Paul Festa January 27, 1998

  • Paul Paray

    Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.
    By Paul Festa October 22, 1997

  • Classical music: R.I.P.?

     
    By Sarah Vowell June 27, 1997

  • Die Vvgel

    Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.
    By Paul Festa April 21, 1997

  • Ute Lemper

    Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.
    By Paul Festa March 21, 1997

  • 3 Russian Fairy Tales

    Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.
    By Paul Festa February 10, 1997

  • Stravinsky

    Sharps and flats is a daily music review.
    By Paul Festa December 23, 1996

  • Salon: Sharps and Flats

     
    By Paul Festa December 2, 1996
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