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Petrenko Conducts Rosenkavlier at Carnegie
First-Rate Singers Honor Strauss
By: - Mar 30th, 2018Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier is his most beloved opera. Strauss fused rigorous compositional technique, catchy waltzes and superb vocal writing to a charming, sentimental libretto by his longtime collaborator Hugo von Hoffmannsthal. On Thursday night, the Bayerische Staatsoper brought this opera to the stage of Carnegie Hall under the baton of its boss Kirill Petrenko. This was the opera company's first concert performance at the New York venue in its long history.
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Until The Flood by Dael Orlandersmith
Ferguson Story Told at Milwaukee Rep
By: - Mar 30th, 2018Until The Flood can be seen at the Milwaukee Rep until April 22nd. Dael Orlandersmith wrote a performance piece in response to the Ferguson shooting and riots. How will a community like Ferguson heal?
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The Effect by Lucy Prebble
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Mar 30th, 2018The Effect is a penetrating look at research practice as realized through the vivid experiences of real people who may unwittingly subvert the process of unveiling truth. The veteran cast sizzles – Joe Estlack and Ayelet Firstenberg as the subjects and Susi Damilano and Robert Parsons as the researchers.
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Yerma at the Park Avenue Armory
Billy Piper Transfixes as Yerma Today
By: - Mar 30th, 2018Yerma inspired by Frederico Garcia Lorca, written and directed by Simon Stone, is produced in a glass house poised in the middle of the Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory. It is a transfixing work. Billie Piper’s Olivier-winning performance is justly celebrated. All the cast members contribute to the wrenching drama.
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In the Studio with Rick Harlow
Eclipse Mill Gallery Exhibition Opens May 1
By: - Mar 29th, 2018The landscape, particularly as inspired by visionary experiences with the indigenous people of Colombia, have long been key to the large paintings of Rick Harlow. In the past couple of years, taking off from the radical technique of Jackson Pollock, nature has been a more subliminal signifier in dripped and spattered abstract paintings. During a studio visit we discussed the dozen paintings to be included in "Landscape of Energy" at the Eclipse Mill Gallery. It will be his first Berkshire solo show.
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Cowboy vs. Samurai by Michael Golamco
Produced by Pear Theatre
By: - Mar 29th, 2018In Michael Golamco’s Cowboy vs. Samurai, Travis replaces Cyrano (de Bergerac), and being Asian replaces suffering from an imposing proboscis. But there is more than just the romancing to this clever play. Pear Theatre’s mounting of this production is both highly entertaining and touching. It is also full of jabbing reminders that much work is yet to be done on the discrimination front.
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Kirill Petrenko at Carnegie Hall
Bayerisches Orchester Performs Brahms and Tchaikovsky
By: - Mar 29th, 2018Brahms and Tchaikovsky would have been thrilled to hear their music interpreted by Kirill Petrenko, making his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Petrenko selected two difficult pieces by the composers, pieces that have gone out of fashion in the concert hall. He makes a compelling case for both of them.
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Father Comes Home from the Wars – Parts 1, 2 & 3
Pulitzer Winner Suzan-Lori Parks's Play at Yale Rep
By: - Mar 29th, 2018Suzan-Lori Parks has woven a story of a slave during the Civil War and the Greek Odyssey into a compelling story. She is well known to Connecticut theater goers. Several of her plays have been staged at Yale Rep, including the Pulitzer-prize winning Topdog/Underdog, The American Play and Venus.
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Prurience at the Guggenheim Museum
A Pseudo Porn Therapy Session
By: - Mar 28th, 2018Prurience. Maybe we should linger on the title of a docu-play running at the Wright Restaurant in the Guggenheim Museum. A group consisting of planted actors with written roles and an audience who have bought tickets expecting to participate in a porn addiction recovery session, are directed by the work’s creator, Christopher Green. This gentle psychodrama had a sold out run on London’s South Bend. The idea is a hoot.
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Meet Me in Milwaukee
Intersections Summit Addresses Social Justice
By: - Mar 27th, 2018From March 23 to 25 Milwaukee Repertorty Theatre hosted a conference Intersections Summit. It was convened to address equity, identity and inclusion through diversity and community outreach. In a letter to ATCA president, Bill Hirschman, managing director, Chad Bauman, who hosted us said in part "All in all, nearly 200 theater professionals from 80+ organizations from 30+ states attended including ATCA, TCG, funders such as the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and journalists from media outlets such as The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune. More than 50 engagement leaders presented sessions and several of which were live streamed via our Facebook page as well as Howlround."
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Gorki - Alternative For Germany?, at Gorki Theater, Berlin
Gorki - Alternative Fuer Deutschland?
By: - Mar 27th, 2018Germany is up in arms! She is against the right wing tendencies among the population in general, and she is against the political party, AFD (Alternative For Germany), in particular. Of course, the Gorki, as an openly politically engaged theater, has lots to say on the subject.
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Rinaldo Presented by The English Concert
A Parade of Singing Stars at Carnegie Hall
By: - Mar 27th, 2018The arrival of The English Concert at Carnegie Hall is an event that creates excitement in New York. This year, since many people have been induced to listen to Baroque music sung by the world’s most exciting countertenor on Broadway in Farinelli and the King, interest is heightened. Carnegie Hall was packed.
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Memphis Still Mesmerizes
Rousing Musical in South Florida
By: - Mar 26th, 2018Memphis: The Musical is a big-hearted, bold show about the power of the human spirit and music to bring about change. A thrilling and touching regional production is underway in Ft. Lauderdale. An electric cast with impressive acting and dancing skills beautifully sings the soul-stirring music of Memphis.
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The little Opera Company's Piramo and Tisbe
Hasse Is a Hot Composer Again
By: - Mar 26th, 2018The superb little Opera company has mounted Hasse’s Piramo and Tisbe, based on the tale told in Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Book IV. It resembles Romeo and Juliet. Two young people, who in this case live in adjoining homes in Babylon, fall in love through the wall that separates them, but are driven apart by warring parents. All does not end well. Yet in the process of telling the story, glorious music abounds.
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Brahms Requiem at St. Thomas Church
The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
By: - Mar 24th, 2018Saint Thomas Church was one of the first buildings constructed with an acoustical architect's guidance. Wallace Sabine, who also gave acoustical advice for the building of Symphony Hall in Boston, guided in New York. Concern then was for the human voice delivering sermons. Listening to Bruckner and Brahms, just the right reverberation is clear.
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Dido of Idaho at Ensemble Studio Theatre
Abby Rosebrock Mourns Aeneas
By: - Mar 22nd, 2018Dido's Lament is a beautiful aria. it suffuses Abby Rosebrock's new play and is not helpful. Nora, a contemporary Dido, is drowning in love, alcohol and mother-angst. Rosebrock drives her tale with often witty and amusing dialogue.
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On Site Opera at Museum at Eldridge Street
Ricky Ian Gordon's Morning Star
By: - Mar 22nd, 2018The Triangle Fire of 1911, in which more lives were lost than in any other disaster before 9/11, flames in the background of Ricky Ian Gordon and William Hoffman’s opera Morning Star.
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Easter Wines During A Nor'Easter
Tuscany Is Famous For The Sangiovese Grape
By: - Mar 21st, 2018Choosing the right wines for your Easter meal is often a hard task. Two recommendations for your Easter table are contained in this article. All you have to provide is either lamb, pasta with red sauce or pizza.
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Beth Morrison and National Sawdust
Ten New Composers and Ten New Works
By: - Mar 20th, 2018Beth Morrison and National Sawdust host new composers and new works in a competition for the chance to expand a work next year. The Next Generation is here.
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Spring Is Time To Buy Summer Wine
Fifteen Dollars And Under
By: - Mar 20th, 2018Are you looking for wines that are light and perfect for the summer seaso? I have found three that cost under $13 a bottle.
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Brigadoon in Boca Raton
Lerner and Loewe's Enchanting Musical
By: - Mar 19th, 2018South Florida's Wick Theatre and Costume Museum present an enchanting Brigadoon. The regional production of Lerner and Loewe classic is magical and humorous. Despite sound and timing issues, the actors enchant in mostly strong staging.
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Through the Elevated Line by Novid Parsi
Carin Silkaitis Directs a Chicago World Premiere
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Through the Elevated Line is made up of a series of sometimes-bumpy scenes, running about 2.25 hours with one intermission. The direction seems uneven too, with some characters shouting when it doesn’t seem called for. Razi is a sympathetic character despite getting into trouble both at home in Iran and in Chicago. His relationship with his sister is sweet and realistic.
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You for Me for You by Mia Chung
At Chicago's Sideshow Theatre Company
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Mia Chung’s other plays include Catch as Catch Can and This Exquisite Corpse. You for Me for You premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London; its first U.S. production was in 2012 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC. Chung is a graduate of Brown University with an MFA in playwriting.
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BLO's The Threepenny Opera Worth Two Cents
Weill and Brecht Classic Full of Jaunty Songs but Hard to Stage
By: - Mar 19th, 2018"The Threepenny Opera" needs to be done with color and verve if it is to speak to today's audiences. The BLO's production was all too beige. Director James Darrah soft-pedaled the politics at the heart of the work, which left it a corpse with some not-so-pretty songs attached.
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The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia?
At CV REP in Rancho Mirage California
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, debuted his highly controversial play “The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia?” on Broadway in 2002. It went on to garner a Tony Award for Best Play, A Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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