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Extras: 5 IMPORTANT LIFE LESSONS LEARNT FROM MOVIES
5 Important Life Lessons Learnt from Movies Technology has increased learning boundaries and made a considerable contribution to how we lead our current life. There are multiple kinds of movies with particular storylines. While some are not fit for consumption, the majority have shaped how we see life today. Initially, movies were considered a form…
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Extras: USEFUL TIPS FOR STARTING YOUR OWN THEATER COMPANY
Useful Tips for Starting Your Own Theater Company Live theater in the USA is finally awakening after an extended lull of approximately 18 months. In order to keep the arts alive, it is imperative to continuously create career opportunities and develop business within the industry. One way to achieve this is to start your own independent…
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Theater Review: THE BEST DECISION YOU’VE EVER MADE (The Second City e.t.c.’s 42nd Revue at e.t.c. Theater in Chicago)
SEEING THIS REVUE MAY BE THE BEST DECISION YOU’VE EVER MADE I entered the Second City e.t.c. on opening night with a sense of unease. Two weeks earlier the Second City mainstage company, the major troupe in its cabaret theater roster, had premiered a show I thought was not up to the iconic standard of…
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Music Review: BRONFMAN PLAYS BEETHOVEN (SF Symphony)
OCTOBER SURPRISE The last of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s four October concerts was, to put it as succinctly as possible, quite wonderful. The draw was Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and the audience, there to hear master pianist Yefim Bronfman, wholeheartedly responded — with rapt silence at first and finally cheers — to Bronfman, whose sonorous and…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS MAHLER (LA Phil)
THREE HOOTS FOR HOOTEN! Gustavo Dudamel’s formidable venture into Mahler’s symphonies with the LA Phil hit a real high mark with the magnificent performance of the Fourth Symphony the Fourth Symphony. The LA Phil is now one of America’s finest playing ensembles, and its amazing stratospheric association with Dudamel has already produced grand results. There…
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Theater: GHOST LIGHT: THE HAUNTING (Cape May Stage – Streams on Vimeo This Halloween Weekend)
STREAM-N-SCREAM Fright seekers are spending their weekend with Oiwa, Japan’s most terrifying female ghost. GHOST LIGHT: THE HAUNTING is a streaming theatre experience based on Yotsuya Ghost Tales. The kabuki play is inspired by the legend of a horribly betrayed woman named Oiwa. Written by award winning playwright, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei and Produced and Directed by Emmy…
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Music Preview: TCHAIKOVSKY AND SAARIAHO WITH Mí„LKKI (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana may be young (28!), but she’s already established herself touring the world and recording an amazing album catalog, including awesome attacks on The Goldberg Variations and Chopin. She also recorded the quintessential Russian piano concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Number One. Now, The LA Phil’s amazing Principal Guest Conductor, Susanna Målkki — who has…
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Album Review: EKUAL (Yumi Ito & Szymon Mika)
EKUAL TO NONE Wow. Can you imagine? When I hear “Polish-Japanese-Swiss vocal-guitar duo creates a universe of gentle harmonics, haunting chords, intricate melodies and explorative improvisations”, I assume we are in store for yet another mind-numbing minimalist soundscape. Wrong. Polish-Japanese singer Yumi Ito’s previous effort, Stardust Crystals, was described as neo-classical-art-pop-meets-jazz. Yes, but here, Ito…
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Theater Review: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (National Tour)
WHAT A GREAT SHOW CAN MEAN TO YOU What the Constitution Means to Me is back at the Broadway Playhouse after a two year pandemic hiatus. Again, it is delivering an entertaining, thoughtful, humorous, insightful, and sometimes disturbing examination of the United States Constitution, its glories and what playwright Heidi Schreck sees as the document’s…
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Broadway: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (Roundabout at Studio 54)
CHANGE IS NOW We hear that that the only thing constant is change, yet we struggle against change, we fight against change, and some are even willing to succumb to the unyielding stress of determined apathy rather than change. We live in a world that must change the way it consumes and change the way it…
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Theater Opening: INDRA’S NET (Meredith Monk World Premiere, Mills College in Oakland)
Indra’s Net Conceived, Directed, and Composed by Meredith Monk Meredith Monk’s newest interdisciplinary, evening-length music theater piece is an experiential performance work affirming the interconnectedness of life. Following On Behalf of Nature (2013), a plea for ecological awareness, and Cellular Songs (2018), which turned attention to the fabric of life itself, Indra’s Net is Monk’s third work in a trilogy dedicated…
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Theater Review: POOR CLARE (Echo Theater Company)
THE THEATER IS RICHER DUE TO POOR CLARE Every once in a while, a bright shiny play comes along that absolutely restores my faith in theater as a place to be entertained, enthralled, and enlightened while nodding my head in agreement with the universal themes therein. It’s also a pleasure to discover a playwright with…
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Theater Review: SEVEN GUITARS (A Noise Within in Pasadena)
TURNING LYRICAL INTO A MIRACLE In emphasizing the “musical lyricism” of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, A Noise Within’s promotional copy for its new production echoes the numerous commentaries devoted to this play. Covering its 1995 Broadway premiere, The New York Times described it as “moving and lyrical,” while Los Angeles Magazine called it a “lyrical…
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Concert Preview: AN EVENING WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS (The Soraya)
MARSALIS IN WONDERLAND Exactly a year before the COVID shutdown, the Branford Marsalis Quartet had just released their new album, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul. The new album finds the celebrated ensemble at a new peak, addressing a kaleidoscope of moods with inspiration and group commitment. This quartet that saxophonist Branford Marsalis…
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Opera Review: TANNHí„USER (Los Angeles Opera)
IF BEING WRONG IS A VENUSIAN SEX ORGY, WHO WANTS TO BE RIGHT? Being Japanese, I am innately programmed to keep clutter to a minimum. Not much adorns my computer desktop screen, save the bare essentials ’” amongst which is the full score to Tannhåuser, some of the most inventive, majestic music constructed to date,…
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Music Review: JONAS KAUFMANN, tenor, & HELMUT DEUTSCH, piano (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
THESE LIEDERS ARE NOW ON MY LISZT Something incredibly special is happening in Santa Monica. The Broad Stage has reopened this week with live performances from German Tenor Jonas Kaufmann last night and The Danish String Quartet last Saturday, both of whom are in extraordinary demand in their fields of opera and chamber music. Both…
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Music Review: SCHUBERT 5 & DESSNER VIOLIN CONCERTO (Pekka Kuusisto, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony)
BRYCE DESSNER AND PEKKA KUUSISTO: AN EXTRAORDINARY TEAM Last night, I had the rare and honored experience of being present at what I think may have been an historic musical event. It was the first United States performance of Bryce Dessner’s Violin Concerto (2021) which was co-commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, and which, under…
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Theater Review: THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE (Court Theatre in Chicago)
IS LESS MOOR? The Court Theatre artistic management is giving William Shakespeare’s great tragedy Othello a startling makeover. The play has been condensed into a single 110-minute act. The physical and textual results may earn praise from many viewers for their unorthodox exploration of a complex drama. Others, myself included, may admire the risk-taking production…
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Off-Broadway Theater: NOLLYWOOD DREAMS (MCC Theater)
MCC Theater (511 W 52nd St) opens its 2021-22 season with Nollywood Dreams, which reunites the entire cast from the 2020 MCC production that was postponed due to the theater shutdown. Written by Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play), Nollywood Dream will begin previews in-person at MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater on October 21, 2021. Directed by Saheem Ali (Fires…
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Theater Review: THE CLAIM (Shotgun Players in Berkeley)
THE RETURN OF THE SHOTGUN PLAYERS It is always a pleasure to come across a playwright with a love for (and a gift for) language and, better, an appreciation for the comic possibilities of wordplay. Tim Cowbury is just such a playwright, and his play The Claim, which was a runaway success at the 2019…
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