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MUSIC REVIEW: Sibelius festival starts with sing-along |
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Written by DEBBY MAYER
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Sunday, 21 August 2011 09:24 |
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Bard Music Festival/ Bard College
THE OPENING CONCERT of the Bard Music Festival always presents a wonderful overview of the work of the chosen composer. I've attended most of them and invariably enjoyed learning the range of that summer's composer.
The August 12 opener, “Jean Sibelius: National Symbol, International Iconoclast,” was no different, and in addition, it offered an experience unique in the BMF annals, as I know them: an audience sing-along.
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THEATER REVIEW: Lowbrow at times, 'Housewives' still prepares tasty treat |
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Written by MARION HUNTER
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Friday, 05 August 2011 08:15 |
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The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County/ By Carl Ritchie and Wayne Moore/ Taconic Stage Company/ Copake Lake
CARL RITCHIE, WHO DIRECTS as well as authors, has gathered five great-looking broads (the cream of the singing actresses around here) and created a broadly sassy musical revue. He pumps up and affectionately satirizes their individual proclivities. If reality flags, he just piles on some outrageous fictional stuff.
These characters are all climbing up the hill but are not yet over it; and they probably won't be until they have each reached 110. To audience-happy eyes, they all seem DNA- and/or surgeon-blessed.
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THEATER REVIEW: By remaining true to Bard, 'Romeo' production connects |
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Written by MARION HUNTER
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Saturday, 30 July 2011 08:01 |
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Romeo and Juliet/ Shakespeare & Company/ Lenox, MA
IF, FROM HEAVEN, Shakespeare has been observing all the jerking around his scripts endure, he must now be smiling, sighing, and wafting hand-smooches toward his Mistress, director Daniela Varon.
Her invention is everywhere in Shakespeare & Company's 2011 Romeo and Juliet; and all of it serves the word. Her direction is fresh with a kind of knowing modesty.
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Two stories of fans view last Potter flick |
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Written by HANNAH KLEIN
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011 07:54 |
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CHATHAM -- Witches and wizards lined up in front of the Crandell Theater at midnight on July 14. With wands and round glasses, adults and children waited for the premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.” The movie is the final film adaption of British author J.K Rowling's bestselling series. Harry Potter books have sold over 400 million copies worldwide.
The second midnight showing of Harry Potter since the Crandell's reopening in 2010 went off without a hitch. Tickets had been on sale for a week prior, in expectation of the large crowd the film would draw.
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SEASON PREVIEW: Thoughts on Bard's spa for the mind |
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Written by DEBBY MAYER
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011 10:19 |
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MAGICAL MUSIC, STROBE LIGHTING and handsome Finnish dancers opened the 2011 SummerScape at Bard College last week.
The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, where much of SummerScape takes place, is tucked into the woods like a dinosaur at rest. As we arrived, its wide glass front, three stories high, welcomed early theatergoers, while across the road others delayed going indoors on a perfect summer evening. They sat at picnic tables or checked out The Parliament of Reality. This permanent outdoor installation, which features a pond and a bridge covered with wire mesh, is the creation of Olafur Eliasson.
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