At the Edinburgh Fringe this past summer and currently in London, Los Angeles actor Natalie Palamides performs her solo show titled Nate, in whch she plays an unrepentantly dopey douchebag. For two nights this week, Palamides had the show’s director, Phil Burgers (who performs as a clown under the stage name Dr. Brown), stepped in for her while she called out directions from just offstage. Did the gender swap change everything about the show? Brian Logan went to find out.
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Saxophonist, bandleader, arranger, composer and educator Bill Kirchner sent a message today about making members of a new generation aware of Paul Desmond. And as I was later auditioning recently-arrived recordings for possible review, up popped a track from pianist Lisa Hilton’s Oasis CD.
Why It Might Not Be So Easy For France To Return Cultural Treasures
There are legal blocks to permanently removing items from French collections and, as a practical matter, there will almost certainly be push-back from the museums themselves.
Rennie Harris Is The Ailey Company’s First-Ever Artist-In-Residence
Gia Kourlas talks to the choreographer about Lazarus, a two-act work (the company’s first) he’s creating for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 60th anniversary. Harris says he’s basing his movement on GQ, a street-dance style which he says developed in Philadelphia at the time break-dancing evolved in New York.
How Do You Create Site-Specific Dance For The Madhouse That Is Times Square?
The Times Square Alliance and Danspace Project collaborated “to create a program of original works in Times Square this fall that reference the history and experience of the place. An estimated 33,000 people passed through the area each day during the four-hour program — most just happening upon it. What they saw was unique even for Times Square.”
Only A Few Months After Launching, YouTube Is Pulling Back From Its Premium Service
Google will scale back its production of scripted content starting in 2020. While neither reported YouTube Premium — the $11.99-a-month subscription service — would close, it is unclear how many viewers would continue to pay, when the same content would be available for free, though with ads.
‘Relative Stability’ Gave U.S. Theatres Space To Catch Their Breath, Says TCG 2017 Report
“Theatre Communications Group’s Theatre Facts 2017 observes that, with the recession largely behind them, U.S. theatres in 2017 were in a position of relative stability. … Naturally, not every company in the country was in this position, but that relative stability meant some theatre organizations could carve out time to address debt reduction, engage in strategic planning, and prepare for upcoming changes.”
Why Do Opera With Homeless People?
“When you say you’re working with a choir made up of homeless and formerly homeless people, people have the impression of what that means and it’s not an Individual one, as the members of the chorus show, it’s one of ‘huddled masses.’ I want this project to correct that misconception.”
Two Panels Of Mantegna Painting Reunited For First Time In At Least 300 Years
The lower half of the 1492 diptych, titled The Descent of Christ Into Limbo, has been owned by a private collector since 2003; the upper panel, The Resurrection of Christ, belongs to the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo and was only recently identified as Andrea Mantegna’s work. The pair will be displayed together beginning next month at the National Gallery in London.
Margaret Atwood Is Writing A Sequel To ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
“Dear Readers, Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book,” writes Atwood in her announcement. “Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.” The novel, titled The Testaments, will be released next September.