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Theater Preview: MAKING FRIENDS (IAMA Theatre Company)
LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER Wait a minute! Hold on! A one-man play by an angry gay man to be performed by an angry gay man in a show written by an angry gay man? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you. In fact, just the thought of such a thing makes me so angry that I’ve…
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Theater Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (starring Jefferson Mays)
SINGING THE PRAISES OF A CAROL At this time of year, productions about dear old Scrooge are ablaze as usual, even in streaming mode. One-man shows, radio plays, and reruns on film. What’s your favorite? The first widely successful sound version (there were many silent ones) starred Reginald Owen in 1938?; Alastair Sim following in…
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Theater Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Williamstown Theatre Festival on Audible starring Audra McDonald)
THIS STREETCAR ROLLS AND HUMS WITH AUTHENTICITY Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams’ still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes perfect sense that director Robert O’Hara would choose to update the Pulitzer Prize winner for modern times with a multicultural cast, including Audra McDonald as…
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Film and Zoom Event: THE BOWMAKERS (Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra)
BOWMAKERS, TAKE A BOW Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is currently hosting the Midwest premiere of the new, feature-length documentary The Bowmakers, through December 6, 2020, only. Ward Serrill’s film has at its center Charles Espey — considered the most important bowmaker of his generation — so we can learn about the bow from start to…
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Album Review: THE QUEEN OF BAROQUE (Cecilia Bartoli)
YES, QUEEN OK, it may be a tag line, but I promise you that Cecilia Bartoli IS the “Queen of Baroque.” And this sentiment coming from someone who can take only so many malismas. Her strength and passion are awesome, her diction stunning, her emotion undeniable, and her range seemingly endless. Her first compilation album…
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Album Review: THINK OF SPRING (M. Ward)
JUST TRY GETTING ALONG WITHOUT THIS ALBUM Ah, songs. You know, with melody and lyrics and accessible sentiment. Prolific songwriter M. Ward brings us his new album Think of Spring, a collection of songs originally recorded by Billie Holiday – a muse to Ward and many others. But don’t expect literal translations like the way…
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Film Review: MODERN PERSUASION (directed by Alex Appel & Jonathan Lisecki)
PERSUADED JUST ENOUGH Especially in a year like 2020, we can always use Jane Austen to lighten our mood. Now, a modern film re-telling of her Persuasion, starring Alicia Witt, has been picked up by Samuel Goldwyn Films. After so much negativity this year, I was far more capable of handling this low-budget cream puff…
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Theater Review: THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER (Lookingglass)
STEADFAST THEATER This “soldier” is well worth saluting: There’s an enchanting Christmas Pantomime streaming from Michigan Avenue in Chicago ’” Lookingglass Theatre Company’s jewel-box of a holiday divertissement. Transformed by music, dance and spectacle more than by words and lyrics, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale from 1838, is the perfect recipient for director…
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Film: UPCOMING DRAMA MOVIES, 2021
UPCOMING DRAMA MOVIES, 2021 2021 is a big year for film – with huge new titles making their debut, as well as some classic film series adding another gem to their collection, there’s a lot to be excited for. So, get comfy, get your snacks, and get ready to hear the films you should be…
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Theater Preview: HOLIDAY SAUCE… PANDEMIC! (Taylor Mac)
TWAS THE MAC BEFORE CHRISTMAS Taylor Mac is back this holiday season with a full serving of virtual vaudeville. Celebrating the holiday season in all of its dysfunction, Taylor Mac’s HOLIDAY SAUCE… PANDEMIC! will make its live SF premiere from the Curran Theatre on December 12, 2020 at 7pm PST, followed by a strictly limited…
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Concert Preview: (AT) HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (SFGMC)
HUNDREDS OF MEN COMING TO YOUR HOME CHRISTMAS EVE Since 1990, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) has made its annual event Home for the Holidays a tradition usually held at San Francisco’s iconic Castro Theatre. It was among many other things that I was so sad to miss this year. But nothing keeps these…
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Preview: DAI 2.0 (Livestream Theater Event on December 3)
DAI 2.0 Originally scheduled to premiere Off-Broadway at the 14th Street Y in NYC, Iris Bahr’s funny and moving new solo work, DAI 2.0, is the sequel to her award winning solo show, DAI (enough), in which she portrayed 10 different characters in a Tel Aviv café moments before a suicide bomber enters. DAI had…
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MUSIC PREVIEW: CMS: FRONT ROW (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and The Soraya)
FROM NEW YORK TO L.A. TO THE WORLD The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) created a new digital initiative this year so that local chamber music venues could bring its digital chamber music concerts, CMS: FRONT ROW, to audiences around the country. Yes, it was created in the age of COVID, but now local presenters can stay in touch with their audiences while…
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Theater: SITI LEGACY PLAN (SITI Company’s Final Season)
SITI LEGACY PLAN SITI Company, a leading New York-based theater ensemble celebrated locally and internationally, announces the SITI Legacy Plan, which includes a finale 30th anniversary season and the creation of a robust physical and digital archive. At the conclusion of the finale season, anticipated to be the Fall of 2022, SITI Company will cease to operate…
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Theater Preview: BREATHE. (by Philicia Saunders)
BREATHE. With the recent political, racial, and global unrest occurring throughout 2020, the premiere of recent political, racial, and global unrest occurring throughout 2020, the premiere of Breathe., a live-streamed multimedia form of art activism and interactive theater event fusing performance, cinema, and artistic swimming in a hybridized narrative that could only be born during these challenging, yet…
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Theater Review: CITIZEN DETECTIVE (Geffen Playhouse)
THE BIG SLEEP No crime is as duplicitous as The Geffen’s latest zoom-as-theater project Citizen Detective. This is the point that I say “spoiler alert” but a) nothing I do can spoil this interactive 85 minutes any more than its shoddy execution already has, and b) I can’t spoil who murdered Silent-era Hollywood director William…
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Theater: ELEANOR’S VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH – THE MUSICAL (Broadway & Beyond Theatricals in Chicago)
EXTRA! EXTRA! SANTA CAUGHT ON TAPE WITH RAG DOLL! If your little ones are aching for some color and Christmas and you’re looking for a critical and commercial success from Chicago to entertain them, well here it is. Last year, the premiere of Eleanor’s Very Merry Christmas – The Musical was caught and captured so…
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Album Review: BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIRS (Bidi Dworkin)
BIDI DWORKIN’S NEW ALBUM IS A BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIR IN ITSELF So, you probably know that Stage and Cinema receives hundreds of albums a month to review, and many more since COVID kept CDs from arriving in our snail-mailbox. We have decided therefore to review only those that knock our socks off on the first hearing….
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Concert: ARTURO SANDOVAL LIVE (The Broad Stage)
ARTURO SANDOVAL’S BRAND NEW CONCERT AVAILABLE FROM THE BROAD STAGE He moves easily across many varieties of jazz and instruments ’” using his trumpet to produce a fiery assortment of resonances, interchangeably stately, amusing and starry-eyed. The mighty, vibrant, effervescent Cuban trumpet player, big band leader, and composer Arturo Sandoval ’” a protégé of Dizzy…
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Theater Preview: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Manual Cinema)
A FEAST FOR THE IMAGINATION I have seen three shows from the Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema, and the theatricality is truly awesome. You wouldn’t expect this from a simple description, but you must believe me when I say that this endlessly inventive group of artists uses disarmingly simple tools ’” live music, paper puppets,…
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