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Jonathan Saville
Jonathan Saville wrote theater, classical music, and art reviews for the Reader from 1972 to 2003.
Saville was a professor in the literature and then the theater department at UCSD.
Articles by Jonathan Saville
La Jolla
Which La Jolla? Old La Jolla or New La Jolla? The distinction is chronological, but also a matter of attitude. You can see the contrast along a few yards of Girard Avenue, in what used ...
Blubbo's World
Reader writers and other friends remember Steve Esmedina.
Esmo’s phone manner was so hugger-mugger that I could be sitting four feet away and could not make out a single word. For all I could tell, he might have been laying fifty on a pony.
A Critic Looks at a Critic
Hunkered down at a typewriter next to me on Kettner Blvd.
It must have been hundreds of years ago, that time of simplicity and innocence. It was before the electronic revolution had shackled us all in front of our screens. In those days, the Reader’s writers ...
Bursting With the Relentless Energy of All Human Life
Whoopi Goldberg is back.
Her loyalty to old friends - n that, she is single and firm. Hence her return to San Diego Rep this weekend in two benefit performances for the theater that first recognized her as something special.
The Moon God, The Thunder God, & Co.
Night? I know about Night. It was before I started to compare things, to measure things, to judge the world by reason. There the universe spoke a different language, the language of Night. I was ...
The story I wanted to write... but didn't
Sandy and a girlfriend had gone into a liquor store, robbed the clerk, They locked the clerk in a walk-in cooler. Sandy started feeling bad about the guy. She went back and let him out.
San Francisco Opera Center
Paul Hindemith is generally thought of as one of the important twentieth-century composer, along with Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern. Bartok. Shostakovich, and Prokofiev. He began his career as an iconoclast, shocking audiences with his dissonances; ...
Exhibit A for “Peter Pan syndrome”
Reader critic blacks out during Verdi's Otello
You're wide awake, and suddenly your mind's a blank. You can't even for the words to ask for help. What do you do?
Theater and Classical Music
A friend of mine (whom I will refer to — so as not to embarrass him — as Jeff Smith) is a nicotine addict and cannot go for long without a cigarette. At a recent ...
