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Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World
Controversial Traveling Retrospective
By: - Jan 27th, 2018In 1993 I was intrigued by ersatz weapons fabricated from funky materials by Jimmie Durham in the Whitney Biennial. To explore creative freedom the artist left America in 1987 never to return. While acquiring a global reputation it is only now that the work is again being seen and debated in the States. A long overdue retrospective "Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World" organized by the Hammer Museum traveled to the Walker Arts Center and is finishing its run at the Whitney Museum. It states a case for Durham as one of the formost American artists of his generation.
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Ride at South Florida Theater Company
Eric Lane Play Staged in Suburban Miami
By: - Jan 26th, 2018Ride depicts a physical and emotional journey while three young actresses shine in comic-drama. This is a coming of age play which is strongly mounted at Coral Gables' Area Stage Company.
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Man of La Mancha in San Francisco
By Custom Made Theatre
By: - Jan 26th, 2018Before its Broadway debut, the musical played at smaller theaters. So the transfer of this big, yet small, production to Custom Made Theatre’s intimate space is not only a sensible artistic decision, but the outcome is a winning one.
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Broadway in Winter
Museums by Day and Theatre at Night
By: - Jan 25th, 2018The motive was not to miss a once- in-a-lifetime exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It remains on view through February 12. In addition to visiting museums by day we enjoyed four nights on Broadway. During the Big Chill we avoided threeh our holiday lines at the Met. There was easy access and a good selection for half price TKTS in Times Square.
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David Lang's The Whisper Opera
Delicate Sounds at the Skirball Center
By: - Jan 25th, 2018david lang prefers lower case and the whisper opera is as lower case as a sound can be. it can almost be inaudible and invites you to lean your ear in as you sit like Winnie, in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, with most of your body below the level of the performance platform.
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Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
Charles Newell’s production at Court Theatre
By: - Jan 24th, 2018The play is set in 1947 in the back yard of the home of Joe and Kate Keller. The setting is usually a traditional mid-century back yard with plants, trees, a porch, outdoor furniture and the facades of two other houses partially visible. In the Court Theatre version, John Culbert’s scenic design suggests this back yard in a deconstructed, stylized way.
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Tanglewood 2018
Dinorockers Added to Program
By: - Jan 24th, 2018Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein there will be extensive programming of his music during the 2018 Tanglewood season. As has been the case in recent years James Taylor returns. There is extensive programming of popular artists in the shoulder seasons before and after the residence of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Highlights include Roger Daltry and Tommy, Steve Miller, Peter Frampton, Judy Collins, Steve Stills, Bela Fleck, Andy Grammer, Steve Martin and Martin Short among others.
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Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera
Jennifer Rowley and Quinn Kelsey Shine
By: - Jan 24th, 2018What makes this Trovatore interesting for the regular Met-goer is that it imarks a sort of passing of the torch: from the Netrebko-Hvorostovsky school to a brave new world of lesser known singers taking on the opera's four difficult central roles.
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Shakespeare & Company 2018
Conflating Old and New
By: - Jan 23rd, 2018Shakespeare & Company announces its 2018 summer season. Exploring themes of Delight, Deceit, and Desire, the season includes three Shakespeare plays: Macbeth, As You Like It, and Love's Labor's Lost; plus the New England Premiere of Morning After Grace by Carey Crim; Creditors by August Strindberg adapted by David Greig; Heisenberg by Laurence Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens; Mothers and Sons by Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally; and HIR by Pulitzer Prize finalist Taylor Mac.
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The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
Notable South African Playwright
By: - Jan 23rd, 2018Esteemed South African playwright and novelist, Athol Fugard is noted for plays such as Master Harold…and the Boys, “Blood Knot, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, and the novel made into a movie, Tsotsi. Although Road to Mecca ultimately reached Broadway, the spotty production history of this powerful play is inexplicable, as in the right hands, it is a penetrating drama.
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Diane Kruger Star of In the Fade
Award Winning German Actress in Thriller
By: - Jan 22nd, 2018Germany has become a perennial contender for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Once again, its industry is competing for another win with the emotion-packed thriller “In the Fade”, starring Diane Kruger. She won as Best Actress at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
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Our Great Tchaikovsky by Hershey Felder
At TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Jan 22nd, 2018The inimitable Hershey Felder has carved a special niche in theater as a portrayer of great music composers. In his solo performances, he adeptly characterizes a composer and deftly performs his compositions on a grand piano.
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Five Mile Lake by Rachel Bonds
By Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre
By: - Jan 22nd, 2018In Five Mile Lake, playwright Rachel Bonds tells the story of five young people and the small Pennsylvania town where they have connections. They portras their dreams and despair sympathetically, in amusing, sometimes eloquent conversations.
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Uma Thurman's Flawed Broadway Review
The Parisian Woman Ripped from DC Headlines
By: - Jan 22nd, 2018The Parisian Woman is not a great play and Thurman’s performance is lacking, BUT (and this is a big but), I had a thoroughly enjoyable time seeing it.
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Linda Reiter as Rose Kennedy
Tribute to Matriach of Political Dynasty
By: - Jan 22nd, 2018Linda Reiter creates a vivid replica of Mrs. Kennedy’s appearance and manner in Rose, the one-woman show written by Laurence Leamer and directed by Steve Scott.
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Jonas Kaufman at Carnegie Hall
Schubert's Die Schone Müllerin
By: - Jan 21st, 2018Jonas Kaufman cancelled his appearance as Cavaradossi in the new Metropolitan Opera production of Tosca. He is scheduled for La Fanciulla del West next season. We shall see. He kept his appointment at Carnegie Hall and has an active opera schedule in Europe, including Parsifal an Andre Chenier.
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Zanna, Don't! in South Florida
Subversive Musical Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jan 20th, 2018Zanna, Don't! is a charming musical that's escapist but makes you think a bit. A vibrant cast performs role-reversal musical with zest at Wilton Manor's Island City Stage. This bold musical never fails to engage
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American Lyric Theater Alumni in Concert
Incubating Opera Through Mentorship
By: - Jan 15th, 2018The American Lyric Theater has an annual concert in which the work of their alumni is featured. This year's program included an opera by Patrick Soluri with libretto by Deborah Brevoort; a Christmas opera by Ricky Ian Gordon, libretto by Royce Vavrek; and a one act children's opera.
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Aimard, Roth and Boston Symphony Orchestra
Webern, Bartok and Stravinsky Featured
By: - Jan 14th, 2018The extraordinary French conductor, now principal guest conduct at the London Symphony Orchestra and founder of his own orchestra, Les Siecles, which performs works from all ages on the instruments of the period, was in Boston this week for a program of music, each work composed within three years of the other.
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The Pioneering 1960s Art of USCO
Looking Back at Early Art and Technology
By: - Jan 14th, 2018When an opportunity to celebrate USCO’s pioneering work came along, I just had to curate it. This acknowledgement of our cultural past, still clearly resonates in our 21st Century present.
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Sandy Duncan Recalls Soaring Over Audiences
Former Peter Pan Star Lands in South Florida
By: - Jan 13th, 2018Former Peter Pan Sandy Duncan fondly recalls her past during interview at South Florida theater. Beloved star remains vibrant at age 71. Duncan to appear in Love Letters in Raleigh, N.C.
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Prototype Festival New York Three
Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce
By: - Jan 13th, 2018The pressures of being of left political persuasion compounded by an illegal sexual preference were magnified in the Red Scare following the Second World War in the United States. Television brought McCarthy hearings into American homes. Terror was struck in the hearts of citizens. The story of two men who got snared by the scare tactics is touchingly told in Fellow Travelers, an opera which had its New York premier at the Prototype Festival.
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Vermont’s Eclectic Shelburne Museum
How Sweet It Is
By: - Jan 12th, 2018Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) founded the Shelburne Museum which has 150,000 objects and 39 buildings on 45 acres. Her father Henry Osborne Havemeyer was known as The Sugar King. With his wife Louisne they created a vast collection donating 2,000 objects, including French Impressionist masterpieces, to the Met. Electra married polo champion James Watson Webb II of the Vanderbilt family. Well before the controversies of the Berkshire Museum, in 1996, the Shelburne Museum sold $30 million of its art to pay expenses. During the winter just five buildings are open. We viewed two special exhibitions in the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education which opened in 2013. It was a lively and intriguing experience.
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Woody Sez- the Life & Music of Woody Guthrie
At Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Jan 12th, 2018Woody Sez- the life & music of Woody Guthrie — now at Westport Country Playhouse intersperses his life story, mostly told by David M. Lutkin as Woody, with renditions of the music he made so famous.
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A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
National Tour of Musical in South Florida
By: - Jan 12th, 2018Murder has never been so much fun than in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. An engaging non-equity touring production is playing Ft. Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts. One actor plays almost 10 diverse characters in a tour-de-force performance/
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