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Review: Constellations: Pole Dancing in the Parallel Universe

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  Last Sunday emanated from a parallel Universe. Show tickets, the decision to drive to a specific train which had a stop near the theater. The transit website said, “no delays.” Arriving at the train proved otherwise, in fact it seems always to prove otherwise when the site indicates no problems. The platform was mobbed and a train was going out of service. As the clock ticks toward the curtain going up I have to calm myself down. It is either traffic or trains, in New York City you picks your poison. Finally an E train is rerouted around the … Continue reading →

On Stage: Heaven and Hell: The Passenger

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  The Passenger An opera by the late Mieczyslaw Weinberg based on a radio play by Zofia Posmysz, libretto by Alexander Medvedev. As part of New York City’s Lincoln Center festival, the opera was performed by the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, conducted by Patrick Summers, staged at the Park Avenue Armory, a grand venue. The Passenger is about heaven and hell. In heaven, one is aboard a ship bound for Brazil. Passengers walk the deck, drink, dance. All is white: the people, their clothes, the band, their instruments. All is pure until it is divulged … Walter is a German … Continue reading →

314. Opera: Dr. Atomic: John Adams: The Metropolitan Opera, NYC

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Dr. Atomic premiered in San Francisco in 2005. From the Met Playbill: “This monumental contemporary opera is a riveting examination of one of the most significant episodes in world history: the events leading up to the testing of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico in 1945. Like composer John Adams’s previous operas Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, doctor Atomic not a reenactment of a historical moment but rather an exploration of the people, personalities, and issues involved in an epic incident. The focus of the piece is the title character, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the cultivated American … Continue reading →

469 Your book review: comments here, please

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Please leave your comments here. I’d love to hear your reactions and feedback. Please let me know if you have a favorite poem. [mp3j track=”ascension.mp3″] With gratitude. Sans Souçi             39 CommentsChronological   Reverse   Threaded reply sanssouciblogs wrote on Jun 21, ’10 Mazel tov, cuz! I sat on my porch this beautiful afternoon with your book and read it cover to cover.  I found the autobiographical poems most affecting, maybe in part because I’m familiar with your cast of characters.  The memories of Stuyvesant Town and childhood friendships are so vivid.  I particularly admired the story-poem … Continue reading →

Theater: The Whipping Man: at what point does slavery end?

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Theater: The Whipping Man: at what point does slavery end? Recently my cold, snow-filled Winter was melted by the Manhattan Theater Club’s production of The Whipping Man, a new play by a new playwright, Matthew Lopez. Mr. Lopez, a New Yorker is the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Polish-Russian mother. His unusual theme about a Jewish Confederate soldier and the slaves who were raised as Jews is a gripping historic profile of possibilities. He raised the parallel between the Jewish and African slavery experience and shone a light on the Jewish presence in this country during the … Continue reading →

Theater: Good People: David Lindsay-Abaire/Manhattan Theater Club

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 Theater:  Good People: David Lindsay-Abaire/Manhattan Theater Club A fabulous play with a fabulous cast: Becky Ann Baker (stage, screen, TV) Patrick Carroll (stage, screen, TV) Tate Donovan (stage, screen, TV) Renée Elise Goldsberry (stage, screen,TV) Frances McDormand (stage, screen. TV: Academy Award for Fargo; Misssissippi Burning, Almost Famous, North Country) Estelle Parsons: (stage, screen: August, Osage County, Academy Award: Bonnie & Clyde, nominée for Rachel, Rachel. Inducted into the Theater hall of Fame in 2004) >>Link to Cast photos and bios<< >>New York Times article on the playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner, David Lindsay-Abaire<< What makes a person good? Are the … Continue reading →

Theater: Wit by Margaret Edson at Manhattan Theater Club

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Wit by Margaret Edson at Manhattan Theater Club [W;t] by Margaret Edson with Cynthia Nixon Pun Bandu Suzanne Bertish Michael Countryman Jessica Dickey Chické Johnson Greg Keller Carra Paterson Zachary Spicer   Directed by Lynne Meadow Scenic Design: Santo Loquasto Wit is one of the most difficult plays I have ever watched. It had some of the finest acting I have ever witnessed. It is one of the best plays I have ever seen. This was the third play of my five play subscription for the season. I had a vague idea of what it was about, but I wasn’t … Continue reading →

Time Stands Still, a play by Donald Margulies

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Time Stands Still, a play by Donald Margulies January 10, 2010 Manhattan Theater Club/preview The Samuel J. Friedman Theater, (formerly The Biltmore)       Time Stands Still Donald Margulies Cast: Laura Linney-Sarah Goodwin Brian D’Arcy James-James Dodd Eric Borgosian-Richard Erlich Alicia Silverstone-Mandy Bloom photos by the author I have been a member of The Manhattan Theater Club for about 15 years. The subscription gets me into the theater five times a year and new playwrights are featured; many go on to win awards; I joined initially because my cousin Donald Margulies’ work is often featured. He won the Pulitzer … Continue reading →

Theater: Other Desert Cities: Jon Robin Baitz

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 Other Desert Cities “The Best New Play on Broadway!” Brantley, The New York Times <— autographed by Rachel Griffiths   a play by Jon Robert Baitz directed by Joe Mantello with… Stockard Channing Rachel Griffiths Stacy Keach   Judith LightJustin Kirk Signing autographs: photos, Sans Souci Rachel Griffiths Justin Kirk Link to the New York Times> Review Other Desert Cities is a drama currently playing on Broadway with a highly noted cast. Each member slips into his or her role and owns it; the acting was flawless. If you don’t know the cast members by sight you have certainly seen them … Continue reading →