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Prototype Festival Two
The Echo Drift by Mikael Karlsson
By: - Jan 11th, 2018The Echo Drift is the second opera staged by the Prototype Festival, a group of creative producers who are working to develop new opera using all the media available, as opera has done from its earliest beginnings.
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Barrington Stage Company 2018
Three World Premieres and West Side Story
By: - Jan 11th, 2018The 2018 season of Barrington Stage Company which will feature three world premieres, including a major new musical from Tony Awards winners William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin, a new play from Off Broadway Alliance Award winner Lloyd Suh, and the first major production from playwright, Rachel Lynett. The season starts with Typhpid Mary by Mark St. Germain in the theatre named for him.
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Oscar Bound Documentaries
Final Five to be Announded January 23
By: - Jan 11th, 2018If there were one word to characterize this year’s selection of possible documentary Oscar nominees, it would have to be nihilism. In its preliminary round of voting, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selected 15 films of the 170 submissions for Best Documentary Academy Award, many produced by Amazon Studios, Netflix, HBO, et al.
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Palm Springs International Film Festival
Third Largest American Film Festival
By: - Jan 11th, 2018On January 2nd, Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) officially launched its 29th Annual Film Festival and Gala. More than 2400 guests, attended, along with stars, celebrities, industry professionals, screenwriters, producers, directors, and actors to rub elbows at the Palm Springs Convention Center, as they accepted their Awards for their artistic accomplishments during 2017.
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon
Won Two Golden Globe Awards
By: - Jan 10th, 2018“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” an Amazon Studios series, won two Golden Globes Sunday night—one for best TV comedy series and one for best actress in a comedy series for Brosnahan, who grew up in Highland Park. It’s a hilarious look at a life among the wealthy and the lovably wacky flavor of Greenwich Village before Bob Dylan arrived.
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Nevermore Based on Edgar Allan Poe
World Premiere Musical in Chicago
By: - Jan 10th, 2018Black Button Eyes’ darkly gothic production of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe makes good use of the Edge Theatre’s spacious proscenium stage. The world premiere musical with book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Christenson is directed by Ed Rutherford.
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Best of Broadway 2017
It Was a Very Good Year
By: - Jan 10th, 2018Our correspondent, Karen Isaacs, shares the best of what she reviewed on Broadway in 2017.
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Finding Neverland on Tour
Musical About Peter Pan's Creation Plays Florida
By: - Jan 08th, 2018Finding Neverland is charming to a point, but lacks depth. An equity national touring production of the musical features acting that's too over-the-top. A musical about the birth of Peter Pan may delight young children despite its shortcomings.
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Best of Connecticut Theatre 2017
Top Ten Shows and Honorable Mentions
By: - Jan 08th, 20182017 offered superb theatre for Connecticut audiences. Our correspondent, Karen Isaacs, has a list of the Top Ten shows. In addition she lists twelve more productions worthy of critical recognition.
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The Jewel Of The Douro Valley
Since 1880 Ramos Pinto Has Produced Port
By: - Jan 07th, 2018The Ramos Pinto brothers founded Ramos Pinto in 1880 and marketed the port wine producing company to Brazilians. They commissioned remarkable artworks illustrating their products and guerilla marketing practices. Today, the posters are iconic and the new owners, Champagne Roederer, have been following in the footsteps of Antonio and Adriano Ramos Pinto.
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Once on This Island
Music al Revival at Circle in the Square
By: - Jan 06th, 2018We welcome Karen Isaacs who covers theatre in New York and Connecticut. Here she has mixed responses to a revival of a 1990 musical. At Cicle in the Square Once on This Island evokes a Caribbean atmosphere. You might want to get your feet wet.
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Bernstein at the Park Avenue Armory
Isabel Leonard and Ted Sperling Sing Bernstein's Songs
By: - Jan 06th, 2018If the Metropolitan Opera’s Isabel Leonard and her partner-in-Bernstein, Ted Sperling, are to be believed, for a long time they’ve been attending the superb and surprising events the Park Avenue Armory puts on, as they waited for an invitation to perform. Now the Armory presents one of the first 2018 events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. This unusual recital of his songs was perfectly produced in the Officer’s Room. Leonard and Sperling are featured.
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The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera
Susan Graham is Wonderful
By: - Jan 04th, 2018When the Peter Gelb era at the Metropolitan Opera is examined in posterity, the recent renaissance of operetta on the stage of that institution may rank among the general manager's more questionable endeavors. This season, the company is reviving its 2014 staging of Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow in its awkward English translation by house scribe Jeremy Sams. The saving grace of this revival is that it is a vehicle for Susan Graham, in her only role at the Met this season.
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Southern France
Along the Foothills of the Pyrenees
By: - Jan 02nd, 2018The walled city of Carcassonne, the heritage site Albi with its Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, the Basque cities of Auch and Bayonne, and the Atlantic coastal cities of Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz are treasures that make this region of France unique for the visitor.
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Metropolitan Opera's New Tosca
Sir David McVicar Gives us Rome
By: - Jan 01st, 2018A lot has been written about the problems with this Tosca. It underwent casting changes in all three principal roles, with Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo and Željko Lucic replacing (respectfully) Kristine Opalais, Jonas Kaufmann and Sir Bryn Terfel. The conductor was also replaced twice: Andris Nelsons pulled out when his wife (Ms. Opalais) did and currently disgraced music director emeritus James Levine was removed in November. In the pit for opening night: the stylish French conductor Emmanuel Villaume, a lucky and late replacement for this all-important show.
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Flashdance The Musical Near Ft. Lauderdale
Adaptation of Popular Film
By: - Dec 31st, 2017A regional production of Flashdance: The Musical achieves mixed results. The lead performer shines in Broward Stage Door Theatre's mounting of the production. Showstoppers "She's a Maniac" and "What a Feeling" make the show worthwhile seeing
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A Study in Contrast Two Museums in Lisbon
National Tile Museum and MAAT Bookend Art and Culture
By: - Dec 30th, 2017These institutions visually and physically reflected Portuguese art and culture, one embracing the nooks and crannies of history while the other exhibited a vibrant openness to contemporary urbanity.
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Pinafore with New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
Enduring Humor and Truths
By: - Dec 29th, 2017High spirits prevail aboard HMS Pinafore as Little Buttercup distributes sweets and tobacco to the crew. Common sailor Ralph Rackstraw's mind, however, is on Josephine. He is in love with her even though she is pf another class. The prospective couple have sumptuous voices. Soprano Kate Bass has a wide ranging lyricism, with a bright top and an intelligent reading of song and phrase. Daniel Greenwood, an enticing edge to his big tenor.
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Quinta da Alorna-Wines from Tejo
Founded in 1723
By: - Dec 29th, 2017Five generations have farmed this vast land located two hours east of Lisbon, Portugal. Farming includes crops, forests and grapes. The estate is sprawling and impressive architecturally. Wine production with emerging technology has catapulted these reasonably priced wines into the world market.
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Military Working Dog Teams National Monument
Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
By: - Dec 29th, 2017In the center of a spacious plaza, a 9-foot modern day Military Working Dog Handler stands with larger-than-life bronze statues of four of the more common breeds of Military Working Dogs utilized by the United States Department of Defense since World War II: Doberman Pinscher, German Shepherd, Labrador Retriever, and Belgian Malinois.
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Berkshire Museum Top Arts Story of 2017
Coverage Morphed from Local to National News
By: - Dec 26th, 2017A decision on an appeal by Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, to halt the sale of 40 key works of art at Sothebys on behalf of the Berkshire Museum will be decided by the end of January. Van Shields, now on medical leave as director of the museum, and board president, Elizabeth "Buzz" McGraw, announced their $60 million plans for a New Vision in July. What started as a local story has morphed into national and global coverage. The outcome of this unethical attempt at deaccessioning by a pariah museum may have a game changing impact on the mandate of all American museums' commitment to preserve and conserve collections for future generations.
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Cinderella by Alma Deutscher
An Opera by a Prodigy
By: - Dec 25th, 2017The production of Cinderella by twelve-year-old Alma Deutscher is delightful. The overall ambiance starts with well delineated characters, portrayed by excellent singer/actors. In addition to the leads, comic highlights are offered by the frivolous stepsisters, the supercilious king, and the fopish minister, while magic is provided by the mysterious woman in the forest who will reappear in a different form.
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Houdini Comes to Wales
59E59 Theaters Unlock Him Through Daniel Llewelyn-Williams
By: - Dec 20th, 2017Can anyone outdo Harry Houdini? "A Regular Little Houdini" suggests yes. A young boy's fascination with magic and then escaptistry helps him save his family's honor. This charming and moving one-man show touches in ways that escape artists usually don't through a spellbinding performance by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams.
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School of Rock's National Tour
Broadway Musical in Florida
By: - Dec 20th, 2017Scorching School of Rock seems vital these days. An equity national touring production of the musical, based on the film, sizzles. Show will inspire you to "Stick it to the Man" (or Woman) yourself.
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Orchestra Now at Alice Tully Hall
In Search of Space
By: - Dec 19th, 2017The Orchestra Now is still a new presence on the classical music scene in New York but it is, on the surface, a pretty good idea. Conceived by Bard College president Leon Botstein, T?N (as they style themselves) is the renamed, re-packaged, re-marketed top-level student orchestra of that august educational institution. On Thursday night, the Bard students visited Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall to play an ambitious program under the baton of JoAnn Falletta.
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