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Opera Preview: RIMSKY REBOOTED (Chicago Opera Theater)
RIMSKY TO THE RESCUE As COVID-19 restrictions continue to evolve, Chicago Opera Theater is pivoting its November show digitally in order to honor commitments to artists while protecting the community. Instead of the previously announced Kashchej the Immortal, COT will now offer Rimsky Rebooted on Saturday November 21, at 7:30pm CST. a recital featuring singers from…
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Improvisation Show: THE GROUNDLINGS COOKIN’ WITH GAS (with Lisa Kudrow)
LEAVE THE GAS RUNNING Groundlings alum Lisa Kudrow will join The Groundlings Theatre’s upcoming Online Edition of Cookin’ With GAS – the critically acclaimed short-form improv show — on Thursday November 19, 2020 at 7pm PST. Based entirely on audience suggestions, the comic daredevils invent custom-made fun that will have you falling out of your virtual seat….
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Concert Preview: THE SORTING ROOM SESSIONS (Six-Event series from The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
EASY TO SORT THIS ONE OUT One of the benefits of events being streamed during COVID is that we get to partake in film festivals and events from around the world. And then there are programs that ARE local, but always sell-out. Such is the case with The Sorting Room Sessions, a nightclub series presented…
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Theater Feature: DECOMPOSED THEATRE, OR THE HUMAN TRASHCAN (Trap Door Theatre in Chicago)
CALLING ALL HUMAN TRASHCANS!! (THAT’S YOU, BY THE WAY) Chicago’s amazing avant-garde company Trap Door Theatre is presenting a series of eight episodes adapted from Matei Vişniec’s Decomposed Theatre, or the Human Trashcan. This Romanian playwright and philosopher saw his plays banned under Romanian Communism in the 70s and 80s (gee with titles like How…
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Review: THE FLATS (Radio Drama from Aurora in Berkeley, CA)
INTRUIGING BEGINNING GOES FLAT As theater companies experiment with ways to continue producing entertainment during COVID, a number of platforms are being experimented with. Live, recorded, Zoom, staged — you name it. But very few have turned to radio, which is surprising. It’s been said that radio is the invisible medium that has the greatest…
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Theater Preview: WHAT IS LEFT, BURNS (Steppenwolf)
STEPPENWOLF BEGINS 2020-21 SEASON Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre begins its NOW virtual stage season with What Is Left, Burns, which “opens” for streaming on November 11, 2020. This world premiere play has been recorded with a spectacular production design, including stunning video and photography by Lowell Thomas and Joel Moorman and an original soundtrack composed by Justin Ellington….
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Theater & Music: 50 YEARS IN THE GROOVE (A Rhythm Revue Salute to Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre)
SALUTING FIVE DECADES OF NEW AMERICAN THEATER WITH GROOVIN’ MUSIC New York’s beloved radio hosts Felix Hernandez (WBGO’s Rhythm Revue Dance Party) and G. Keith Alexander (WBLS from 1973-2017) are teaming up to bring you 50 Years in the Groove, a Rhythm Revue salute to Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre (NFT). It’ll be an…
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Theater Review: THE PROJECT(S) (Stage Left Theater, Chicago)
THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It’s a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli and documentarian Joshua Jaeger created a crash course and action meditation on Chicago’s infam0us housing projects. Inspired…
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Theater: WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL (2020 Season)
PRICK UP YOUR EARS It’s been said that radio is the invisible medium that has the greatest effect in stimulating the imagination of listeners, especially when it is a dramatization (versus narration). The imagination is aroused such that the listener becomes involved. The potential afforded to you by listening to a play stems from the…
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Music Preview: CELLIST DAVID FINCKEL AND PIANIST WU HAN (Beethoven/The Five Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Cal Performances)
A GIFT TO YOURSELF Get ready for cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han’s marathon program of the complete Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano — monumental works in the repertoire but also significant artistic touchstones for these amazingly gifted interpreters, a husband-and-wife duo who have been playing them together for more than 25 years….
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Theater: THE GREEK TRILOGY OF LUIS ALFARO (The Getty Museum and Center Theatre Group)
IT’S ALL GREEK ACTIVE TO YOU Getty Museum and Center Theatre Group have joined forces to premiere Luis Alfaro’s Chicano adaptations of Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada in virtually produced, multi-camera readings filmed at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City (Los Angeles), and premiering over three Fridays in November. All performances Alfaro’s fascinating trilogy of…
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Theater Review: THE SPIN (Interrobang Theatre Project, Chicago)
THE SPIN IS A SPECTACULAR SPARKLING SPUNKY EXPLOIT Satisfying, enriching, entertaining and proof that Chicago contains some of this country’s greatest actors and theater, The Spin is writer/director Spenser Davis’s brilliant blend of theatric sensibilities in a digital format. This offering from Interrobang Theatre Project in Chicago “opened” last night and it is hands down…
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Theater Review: RUSSIAN TROLL FARM: A WORKPLACE COMEDY (TheaterWorks Hartford, TheatreSquared, The Civilians)
TRENCHANT TROLLS TRIUMPH BY TRANSMOGRIFYING TRUTH Somewhere in the bowels of Saint Petersburg, Russia, there is an agency made up of both Americans and Russians that trolls the internet, creating hashtags and Facebook posts and memes from people who do not exist, and hurl them around the internet so that gullible Americans become so divisive…
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Theater Review: 45 PLAYS FOR AMERICA’S FIRST LADIES (The Neo-Futurists in NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco)
WHO’S ON FIRST, LADIES? The program states: “Rather than presenting a purely biographical story, this project uses the “honorary” office of First Lady as a lens to examine the roles that women and other marginalized individuals have played in the development of America.” That this recorded production is coarse in value only seems to heighten…
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Theater Review: ART (San Francisco Playhouse)
YES, BUT IS IT ART? Yasmina Reza’s oft-produced Art (English translation by Christopher Hampton) may be singularly responsible for the current plethora of new plays today with one set, a small cast, and billed as “Ninety Minutes No Intermission.” Art is a cash cow, and it’s no wonder that so many playwrights seem to be…
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Film: SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020
FILM FESTIVAL COMES HOME I’ve been struggling to find some kind of blessing about the COVID pandemic as it concerns the arts. But it doesn’t look good. Theaters are desperately delivering 10-minute plays and other frivolities; there are a few live music concerts at drive-ins; museums are showing art online; and music and dance organizations…
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Theater Preview: BERKELEY REP’s 2020-21 SEASON
BERKELEY REP’S IN SEASON As with most theater companies, Berkeley Rep’s season goes virtual. Titled Rep On-Air, it will include collaborations with Raúl Esparza, New Yorker cartoon artist Tom Toro, Pulitzer Finalist Eisa Davis, and Hershey Felder. The three projects listed below follow It Can’t Happen Here, the terrific radio play adapted from the novel by Sinclair Lewis…
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Event Feature: ELECTION DAY VOTE-A-THON (Stars in the House with Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley)
ELECTION DAY VOTE-A-THON FEATURES ANNETTE BENING, MARCIA CROSS, JEREMY JORDAN, VANESSA WILLIAMS, MEGAN HILTY, JESSIE MUELLER, DANA DELANY, AND MORE Why not watch something on Election Day that’s election-related but purely entertaining instead of stressful? Wouldn’t it be fun to hear from celebrities and viewers alike about their voting experiences throughout the years as well…
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Event Preview: HUMOR FOR HUMANITY (Jimmy Tingle’s 20/20 Vision: Why Would a Comedian Run for Office?)
NOW, ON A LIGHTER VOTE… As our divided nation approaches the election of 2020 with emotions, passions, and suspicions running at an all-time high, Jimmy Tingle’s 20/20 Vision will entertain, enlighten and challenge you to move beyond the current politics of presidential tweets, sound bites, and the nightly news cycle and into the realm of…
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Theater Preview: LIES (LAB Theater in Ybor City [Tampa], FL
LIES ALL AROUND US Tampa, Florida’s LAB Theater Project is taking to the stage live (yes, live) with the world premiere of Jerry Slaff’s award-winning play Lies, running November 5-22, 2020 at 812 E Henderson Avenue in Ybor City, with both limited in-house seating and live streaming options. Lies, directed by Pete Clapsis, and starring Katherine…
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