NEW THEATER OPENINGS THIS WEEKEND
JEWEL THEATRE in Santa Cruz offers Harper Regan with a Thursday Preview. Harper walks away from her home, her family and her job, tossing fate and obligations into the air and embarking on a life journey that becomes an exploration of loyalty, morality and the bonds of family. UCSC opens Aristrophanes’ ECCLESIAZUSAE (The Congressladies) this Friday, that comes with this warning: Explicit material, nudity and adult content. Production also features gunfire sound effects and fog/haze. Click HERE
RICK LARSEN is a very familiar stage figure to hundreds who don’t know his name. He has spent his career “beside” the performing arts. Click HERE
FRESH REVIEWS
MONTEREY SYMPHONY plays a Spanish wedding and old concert faves. Click HERE
PAMB senior theater critic reviews John Lahr’s new Tennessee Williams biography. Click HERE
AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for his score for The Grand Budapest Hotel. (His score for The Imitation Game was also nominated.)
ALEX ROSS: HOW BJÖRK BROKE THE SOUND BARRIER
“MUSIC is far from being a ‘universal language’, as Arthur Schopenhauer once defined it; to the contrary, no art stirs more heated debate.” Iceland’s Björk has moved the tectonics of music like no other. Click HERE
MAKING SWEET MUSIC
WHY is a Guarneri violin more powerful than a Strad or an Amati? Is it a kind of ‘natural selection’? Click HERE
Scott MacClelland, editor