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Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Mar 17th, 2019In Lauren Yee’s tense and scintillating comedy/drama, Cambodian Rock Band, lead character Chum had escaped Cambodia during the height of the atrocities and resettled in Massachusetts. It is produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and plays in repertory through October 27, 2019.
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True West at Roundabout Theatre
With Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano
By: - Mar 17th, 2019True West, Roundabout Theatre’s staging of the Sam Shepard play, stars two fine actors—Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano. It’s a play that descends from brotherly rivalry to rage and chaos, amidst a dozen toasters and piles of toast. And then Mom arrives home from vacation to her little tract house east of LA and her sons turn into little boys—briefly.
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Crossing Delancey In South Florida
At the Levis JCC Sandler Center Theater
By: - Mar 16th, 2019Crossing Delancey is heartwarming and life-affirming at the Levis JCC Sandler Center Theater at the J. The stage version of this well-known story is the source material for the 1988 movie starring Amy Irving. The play is faithful to the film, but different. Cast members and behind-the-scenes folks excel in their work on the production in Boca Raton.
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Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey
NY's Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 16th, 2019Sean O’Casey’s play, The Shadow of a Gunman, now on stage at Irish Repertory Theatre, tricks us into thinking this might be a comedy about drunken and verbose Irishmen.
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The Rape of Lucretia
Review at Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Mar 16th, 2019Boston Lyric Opera’s production and interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s contemporary tragic opera “The Rape of Lucretia” is once again an example of a willingness and commitment to perform dramatically intense and socially relevant subject matter.
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Baruch Performing Arts Center's Spoken Songs
Spears and Argento Sung by Brian Mulligan
By: - Mar 14th, 2019Baruch Performing Arts Center presented a Thoreau song cycle by Gregory Spears and Virginia Woolf's Diaries by Dominic Argento. Spears, a phenom among contemporary composers, loves Henry David Thoreau, but found his poetry less than thrilling. Diving into his prose, he decided to take up the more difficult challenge of setting prose to music.
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Andy Warhol—From A to Z and Back Again
Whitney Museum of American Art
By: - Mar 12th, 2019The Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art leads you through the commercial illustrations, personal drawings, paintings, prints, photos, silkscreens, films, videos, music production, his Factory years and more. The last galleries show his giant Mao painting, works in collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the 35-foot mural titled Camouflage Last Supper 1986, a rendition of the Last Supper under camouflage print.
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Judas Kiss in Pasadena
Just Wilde About Oscar
By: - Mar 12th, 2019“The Judas Kiss”, written by playwright Hare, is deftly directed by Boston Court’s co-artistic director Michael Michetti, and, boldly explores Hare’s raison d’etre for his roman a clef story. Act One of the play is set in the Cadogan Hotel in London, in 1895.
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Diana The Musical
Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Mar 12th, 2019La Jolla Playhouse presents a new musical about Diana and Charles who as heir to the British throne, at 70, is still waiting. For global fans she was a fairybook princess in real life.
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Earth Wind and Fire at Tanglewood
Friday June 28 at 7 PM
By: - Mar 12th, 2019n Friday, June 28, at 7 p.m., Earth, Wind & Fire returns to Tanglewood, bringing its U.S. tour to the Koussevitzky Music Shed. Earth, Wind & Fire are a music institution. Over a five-decade history, they have sold out concerts all around the globe, scored eight number one hits, and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
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Geoffrey Nauffts' Bittersweet Play Next Fall
Dramedy Staged by South Florida's Outre Theatre Company
By: - Mar 12th, 2019Pompano Beach-based Outre Theatre Company presents an uneven production of Geoffrey Nauffts' tearjerker, Next Fall. Outre artistic director Skye Whitcomb stages the production with sensitivity. Cast members sometimes speak too softly to be understood and their productions are sometimes too one-dimensional.
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HERE Presents Nick Lehane's Chimpanzee
Puppetry Moves Like No Other Form
By: - Mar 11th, 2019Chimpanzee is a delightful and superlatively moving account of memories and dreams re-captured in captivity by a primate. Nick Lehane has created this compelling portrait. From the moment lighting director Marika Kent takes us from blackness into the light on the Chimpanzee, graceful light gestures, and some searing white light suggest the chimp's changing moods as does the soundscape by Kate Marvin.
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New Federal Theater Probes Leroy aka Amiri Baraka
Weighty Ideas and Dazzling Characters Entrance
By: - Mar 10th, 2019The New Federal Theater and Castillo Theater are presenting Looking for Leroy, a fascinating and enthralling exploration of the work of Leroi Jones aka Amira Baraka. Written with a masterful combination of character detail and theoretical exploration, Larry Muhammad has created a forceful, touching and provocative work.
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Glory: A Life Among Legends
By Dr. Glory Van Scott
By: - Mar 10th, 2019“GLORY: A Life Among Legends” is a testament to “the power of art, to the power of commitment, to the power of education, and how taken together they can change a culture.”
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Trenton Doyle Hancock at MASS MoCA
Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass
By: - Mar 10th, 2019There is always anticipation and suspense when MASS MoCA opens another year long exhibition in its vast Building Five. The current installation is Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass by cartoonist, conceptual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. This time it seems that the generally dead serious curators just want to have fun. It is a show for children of all ages.
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Rock Archivist David Bieber Part Two
Boston Media and Counterculture
By: - Mar 09th, 2019Several years ago The Fenway Motor Inn, morphed into the boutique, rock themed, Verb Hotel. David Bieber was commissioned to provide vintage memorabelia from his vast archive. Since then, with a small staff, he has been unpacking and cataloguing the collection. He also worked with the late Stephen Mindich to archive The Phoenix material at Northeastern University. Bieber discusses an era in the counterculture of Boston when there was a community of music makers, promo men, writers and DJs. Rent was cheap compared to now and we were living large on other people's money.
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Sonja Friseli's Aida Is Retired at the Met
The End of Aida As We Loved Her
By: - Mar 09th, 2019The production mounted at the Met thirty years ago is to be replaced, under the injunction: if it's not broken, break it. Sonja Friseli's Aida is perfect and satisfies audience members of all ages and all hues. Why should a new one be created? If you are having financial troubles, spend more in the wrong place?
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American Regional Theatre Panel
Our Purpose, Our Impact, Our Future!
By: - Mar 08th, 2019The strengths of the Regional Theatre Movement include 'extraordinary artistry,' 'so many phenomenal writers' and 'so much wonderful new work.' Challenges facing theaters today include competition from other entertainment options, high ticket costs and minimal government funding. The panel comprised Theatre Communications Group Executive Director Teresa Eyring and Florida Professional Theatres Association Executive Director Sherron Long. The discussion was part of Palm Beach Dramaworks' Dramalogue series.
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Aspect Foundation Concert at Italian Academy
Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian Team for Dramatic Beauty
By: - Mar 07th, 2019The Aspect Foundation is committed to making the concert experience memorable. By offering food and drink before the concert and during intermission, and selecting unusual and glistening venues, audience members are swept into their commitment to first-rate music-making. Evenings Aspect presents are unforgettable. Go to one and you will be hooked.
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Bridget Kibbey and Friends at Merkin Hall
WQXR's Terrance McKnight Hosts
By: - Mar 07th, 2019Bridget Kibbey is a superb musician on her instrument of choice, the harp. She was joined by two friends on violin and flute/recorder to perform J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Orlando de Lassus and Tarquinio Merula in Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Center in New York. The event was hosted by Terrance McKnight of WQXR.
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Boston Rock Archivist David Bieber
Collection of 600,000 Objects
By: - Mar 07th, 2019The vast archive of some 600,000 objects was a primary source for the Bill Lichtenstein film WBCN: The American Revolution. When in college David Bieber became a campus correspondent for Billboard Magazine. In graduate school at Boston University he wrote a thesis on the impact of WBCN and the growing counterculture media on changing the mainstream of Top 40 radio and the straight press. He became music director of WBUR and went on to work for WBCN and the Boston Phoenix. He provides an insightful overview of an era of social and poltical change for the vast college/ youth market in Boston.
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Al Perry Talks About WBCN
Former Station Manager
By: - Mar 05th, 2019While many during the Golden Age of WBCN had their heads in the clouds former station manager, Al Perry, had his feet on the ground. Somebody had to stay straight and pay the bills. He is a talking head in Bill Lichtenstein's documentary film WBCN: The American Revolution.
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Christie and Les Arts Florissants at BAM
Jean-Philipppe Rameau Delights
By: - Mar 04th, 2019William Christie and his Arts Florissant created two dance/opera entertainments by Jean-Philippe Rameau at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As usual, this group sells out in New York and it is easy to see why. Christie conducts with poise and precision. He enlists a first rate ensemble of musicians to perform period music. To this is added stylized dance and gorgeous operatic voices. In the second one act dance/opera, La Naissance d'Osiris, we saw and heard a divertissement of dances, the gavotte, sarabande and minuet among them.
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WBCN and the American Revolution
Bill Lichtenstein Discusses His Documentary Film
By: - Mar 03rd, 2019On March 7 the documentary film WBCN and the American Revolution will have a sneak preview at the DC Film Festival. On March 9, 12 and 13 there will be screenings at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. A world premiere is being planned for Boston in April. The day after wrapping the film Bill Lichtenstein discussed the project which started in 2006. The story of WBCN is set against events from the launch of the radical FM station in 1968 to developments surrounding the resignation of Richard Nixon seven years later.
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Equity Tour Of Waitress
Production Makes Stop in South Florida
By: - Mar 01st, 2019The national touring production of Waitress achieves mixed results. Lyrics were sometimes hard to hear during a performance at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center . In the #MeToo era, Waitress should resonate with many. The musical adaptation of the 2007 Indie film contains heart, humor and humanity.
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