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Yield to Whim
Torii by Bruce Johnson greets you at the Djerassi entrance. I recently received an incredibly generous "gift of time" from the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (DRAP) in Woodside, California. "Time"...
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My Daughter Took Me to Burning Man
I checked my packing list for the long Labor Day weekend: antler headpiece, hair extensions, hot pants, fur coat, support hose and estrogen cream. My husband and I were going to Burning Man for the...
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La Dolce Musica: The New Season of the New York Philharmonic Opens With a...
Photo courtesy of Sugarmusic. The Philharmonic's 2014-15 season is opening on September 16 with "La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema." Presented in collaboration with Sugarmusic, the concert...
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'Dance on the Lawn' -- Community Dance Festival Sets Standard
Randy James' "Ten Hairy Legs." Photo: Tony Turner I had the privilege recently to attend a dance festival a bit different from the norm -- not one produced by an established organization, or part of a...
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The Black Wall Project: A Picture Can Express a Million Words
In reality, you can put a filter on an image, you can add 100 layers to make the perfect picture. But for some, through the lens the naked truth lies in the eyes, the poverty, the struggle, the hunger...
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Grrl's Guide to Filmmaking: Faith Soloway (Transparent)
In the premiere episode of a fresh new docuseries featuring women filmmakers, Faith Soloway invites me onto the Paramount lot to talk about what it's like writing on the breakthrough Amazon series,...
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New Paradise Lab Dissects Maturity (Whatever That Is) in The Adults
New Paradise Laboratories is unflinching as a theater company willing to experiment with high-wire concepts, kinetic visuals, cinematic sound design, integrating 'physical theater' and character...
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Still Crazy After All These Years
James Earl Jones leads an impressive ensemble in You Can't Take It With You Photo: Joan Marcus My grandmother had an expression she always used after a large family gathering: "No one was arrested or...
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More War? The Persians at Getty Villa Gives Fair Warning
Despite the attempts of sane minds to stem the destructiveness of war, its eons-long sway, arising from human greed or grievance, seems to be eternal. The oldest surviving play in western...
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Sondra Radvanovsky and Jamie Barton Shine in New Production of Norma at San...
Since the La Scala premier of Bellini's Norma on the day after Christmas 1831, the opera has been a gritty challenge for any company to take on -- starting with the soprano (or occasional mezzo) in the...
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The Florence Academy of Art in New York
The Florence Academy of Art is a premier, world-renowned institution for advancing the techniques of classical painting. Talented individuals have been traveling to Italy to seek out the school and...
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Rude Laughfest at Playwrights Horizons
Phillip James Brannon, Jessica Frances Dukes, Benja Kay Thomas and Lance Coadie Williams in Bootycandy. Photo: Joan Marcus Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy is rude, raucous, vulgar and gloriously funny....
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BOOTYCANDY *** out of **** PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS Bootycandy -- a series of scathingly funny and sometimes disturbingly raw set pieces -- has the vital messiness and ping-ponging energy of a first play....
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Soprano Ailyn Perez Dazzles in An Impromptu Solo Recital at Washington...
The theatrical adage "The show must go on" worked well at the Kennedy Center last night after illness forced tenor Stephen Costello to quit the stage during his much-anticipated concert with soprano...
View ArticleHow to Be a Leading Lady
Right now I envy anyone who lives in Denver or has the chance to be at that city's Center for the Performing Arts anytime between Sept. 12 and Oct. 26, when Meredith Willson's The Unsinkable Molly...
View ArticleToronto 2014: The Year of Biopics and the Brit Actor
As Toronto 2014 heads into the home stretch several trends have come into focus. Trend #1. It's not only the year of the actor -- it's the year of the British actor. Witness Tom Hardy's portrayal of a...
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The Art of Possibility: Allan McCollum's Perfect Couples
The Shapes Project: Collection of One Hundred and Eight Perfect Couples, 2005/2014. To artist Allan McCollum, more is more. His latest exhibition, The Shapes Project: Perfect Couples, opened last week...
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Edinburgh: Motherlode of Festivals
By a "Royal Mile," Edinburgh, Scotland is the motherlode of all festivals. Playing host to a dozen internationally renowned festivals, the capital of the tartan-clad country doesn't shirk from its...
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Conceptual Collaborator's Build Palaces
At the beginning of the summer, I went to Bushwick Open Studios to view ever-evolving creations by emerging artists. After an exhausting day of walking and looking, ready to return to the other side...
View ArticleScotland: Literary Land of Multiple Personalities and Perspectives
With so much else going on this summer, it's taken a while for people outside the United Kingdom to realize that an important national referendum is about to happen. But inside the UK, and especially...
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