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Music Concerts: JUDY COLLINS & MARIZA (The Town Hall)
The Town Hall is pleased to announce two ENCORE streaming concert events: The great Judy Collins in a concert recreating her legendary 1964 concert at The Town Hall on April 16 and Mariza in a concert celebrating the release of her album Mariza sings Amália on April 9 (the album has ten Amália standards reinvented for…
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Theater Review: [HIEROGLYPH] (San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)
AS WITH A HIEROGLYPH, THIS PLAY IS DIFFICULT TO READ Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s [hieroglyph], now streaming from San Francisco Playhouse and and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, belongs to a genre known as Theatre of Identity, aka Social Issues Theatre. The idea is to call attention to a particular cultural identity or crisis – in this case, the…
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Theater/Film Review: COCK (Studio Theatre in D.C.)
I FOUND THE PERFECT COCK. NOW SEE IF YOU CAN TAKE IT. D.C.’s Studio Theatre production of Cock is a most successful outing in the world of pandemic theater — that which is filmed as a theater piece but without an audience, and with actors at a physical distance. While COVID-19 has halted live theater…
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Theater: AN ILIAD (Live from the New Vic in Santa Barbara, Ensemble Theatre Company)
A HOMER RUN The 90-minute one-act play An Iliad is a stunning marvel. This retelling of the famous epic The Iliad, attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, is not a straight reading of The Iliad. This variation, adapted by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, mixes excerpts from the poem with modern interjections, a few of…
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Theater: MYTHS AND HYMNS (Adam Guettel’s Theatrical Song Cycle (MasterVoices)
DON’T MYTH THIS Myths and Hymns is a kaleidoscopic song cycle that explores the nature of faith and longing in a secular world. With it, MasterVoices is exploring the nature of choral performance in a digital world – this epic performance will be virtual, but nothing like your typical Zoom offering. Nearly nine months in the making, Myths…
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Audio Theater Review: ROMEO Y JULIETA (The Public)
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER LANGUAGE… Since COVID-19’s halting live theater, there have been two different entertainments emerging. One is plays, concerts and music performed either through ZOOM or a pre-recorded show — rarely have they been live. It’s been an overall dispiriting experience compared to live theater. The best live experience is handily The…
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Album Review: HER (Soundtrack by Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett)
HER IS HERE Nominated for Best Original Score at the 2014 Oscars, but never properly released until now, is ARCADE FIRE and OWEN PALLETT‘s hauntingly lilting score to director Spike Jonze’s 2013 hit film HER (listen here), starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Available for the first time digitally today from Milan Records, the HIGHLY RECOMMENDED album features music composed…
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Album Review: TWIST RUN ROAD (Elaine Lucia)
ELAINE LUCIA WILL TWIST AROUND YOUR HEART You know, this is one of the most charming, heartwarming, unique, timeless, soothing but uplifting albums I ever remember hearing. It is instantly accessible and evocative of American folk from the ’60s but with a slight Bossa Nova bent. Elaine Lucia has absolutely captured my heart… and it…
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Opera / Film: RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE: THE MAKING OF A WESTERN OPERA (Quantum Leap Productions)
A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THEATRE STARRING PETER COYOTE PREMIERES VIRTUALLY MARCH 25 – APRIL 11, 2021 Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Western Opera, a documentary film that celebrates the artistry of live theatre, will be presented by Quantum Leap Productions as an online benefit to support creative professionals out of work…
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Museum: THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS AND WORLD WAR II (The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco)
The Walt Disney Family Museum opens its new special exhibition, The Walt Disney Studios and World War II, on Thursday, March 18 for museum members and to the general public the following day, Friday, March 19, 2021. Disney Studio Artist, historically accurate color rendition by Kent Ramsey; 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron, Fresno, CA, Dumbo insignia, 1942….
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Dance: IN ANY EVENT (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
If there’s any consolation from the pandemic, it’s that you get to experience the best dance from around the country. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s (HSDC) 43rd season will resume Thursday, March 25, 2021, at 7:30pm CT with a virtual world premiere of In Any Event a new 30-minute piece by former HSDC dancer Penny Saunders….
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Film: 93RD OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
THE OSCARS SET TO AIR LIVE, APRIL 25, 2021, ON ABC Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas and singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas announced the 93rd Oscars ® nominations today (March 15), live from London, via a global live stream on Oscar.com and Oscars.org, the Academy’s digital platforms, an international satellite feed and broadcast media. Academy members from each of…
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Music: STRAVINSKY: ‘A SOLDIER’S TALE’; BOULOGNE: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 9; Pí„RT: ‘FRATRES’ (LACO CLOSE QUARTERS)
Tonight, March 12, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s lauded groundbreaking digital CLOSE QUARTERS interdisciplinary digital series that melds musical and visual arts continues with a new production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale), conducted by Music Director Jaime Martín, featuring the Robey Theatre Company’s Ben Guillory (Narrator), William Warren (Devil) and Julio Hanson (Soldier) and filtered through the dream-like nostalgia of 1940s’…
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TV Review: AUDRA MCDONALD (Late Night with Seth Myers)
Hey, folks, last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Audra McDonald discussed a year without Broadway, raved about the star-studded cast of The Good Fight and shared her experience meeting Aretha Franklin. Check it out below! Carol Channing Is Audra McDonald’s Xanax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RSLmZ_4sR4 You can also check out the entire episode here, which includes…
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Theater: SPITE AND MALICE (Part of Post Theatrical)
THEATER BY MAIL..? HEAVEN SENT! A collective of 13 theater companies and individual artists from 8 cities across the globe have joined forces for Post Theatrical, a festival of works that use mail as a theatrical medium. The only Los Angeles-based project, the interactive fantasy SPITE & MALICE, runs March 22 – April 30, 2021…
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Theater: UNRAVELLED (Global Brain Health Institute / UC San Francisco / Trinity College Dublin)
Art, music and science intersect in UnRavelled, a new drama by award-winning, Los Angeles-based playwright Jake Broder (Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara) and directed by Nike Doukas (Pinter’s The Hothouse at Antaeus) is now playing on demand through April 30, 2021. Based on true events and incorporating research and interviews conducted by Broder as a Hellman Visiting Artist at UCSF’s Memory…
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Broadway Podcast: JERRY HERMAN: POET OF THE SHOWTUNE (The Fabulous Invalid)
AN INSIDE TWO-PART LOOK AT THE LIFE AND WORK OF BROADWAY LEGEND JERRY HERMAN Broadway’s podcast, The Fabulous Invalid, has today released an epic two-part episode, Jerry Herman: Poet of the Showtune, celebrating Broadway legend. Both Part One and Part Two of Poet of the Showtune are very entertaining, as are previous episodes, all available here….
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Dance: AFTER IT HAPPENED (Invertigo Dance Theatre at The Ford)
THE FORD CONTINUES FREE ONLINE SERIES FROM THE FORD IN L.A. WITH INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE Thursday, March 11, 2021, 6:30pm PT Set in the aftermath of a natural disaster, Invertigo Dance Theatre’s After It Happened – a story of trauma, hope, and healing — tells the story of a community rebuilding itself and searching for…
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Album Review: BRAZZ (Rachel Beausoleil)
BRAZZMATAZZ This release may be subtitled Where Bossa Nova Meets Jazz, but I call Brazz “delectable.” The first stunner is that this Portuguese-sounding angel with perfect diction, as if singing from a beachside café in Rio de Janeiro, is actually Ottawa-based French-Canadian vocalist Rachel Beausoleil, who released this collection of Brazilian popular music last September….
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Theater: THREE DAYS OF RAIN (Manhattan Theatre Club Reading with Original Cast and Director)
Reuniting The Stars of the Original Cast: Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford Streaming on demand from Thursday March 11 through Sunday March 21, Manhattan Theatre Club presents a new reading of Three Days of Rain, originally produced in MTC’s 1997-1998 season. The original stars – Patricia Clarkson (Six Feet Under), John Slattery (Mad Men), and Bradley Whitford…
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