Janos GerebenFeaturesSan Francisco,
San Francisco's Merola Opera Program does a world of good for super-talented young singers about to launch their careers, but this time an event might have given them an incorrect impression about what to expect from music directors.
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Celebrating this Austin-based streaming video site and social network
Andrew OsborneEtcTX,
By Andrew Osborne
Sure, lots of people have podcasts, and some of those podcasts even have fans...but DoubleToasted.com has a congregation (and that’s just for the Sunday Service, one of five R-rated, live-streaming weekly video broadcasts covering movies, video ...
Toba SingerFeaturesBerkeley,
Toba Singer: What has been the evolution of your career? Did you welcome the chance to move out of the comedy club circuit to theater, film, and TV?
John Leguizamo: I didn’t do much time in comedy clubs: ...
Michael Wade SimpsonDanceCO,
Q: In ten years of running the festival, what have you learned?
A: I've Learned to plan both more and less. Plan more so that dancers can try new things and have the time to work on them ...
Toba SingerEtcSan Francisco,
Pussy Riot’s Maria “Masha” Alyokhina and Ksenia Zhivago, in conversation with Zarina Zabrisky, will recount the story of their humanitarian and civil rights campaign, zeroing in on the current state of human rights in Russia. They will touch on LGBT ...
Literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store
Andrew OsborneBooks & CDs
It was sometime after the man in the mushroom cap sang a song about earwigs yet well before Werner Herzog's nihilistic re-imagining of "The Wizard of Oz" that I realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore.
Instead, I was sequestered ...
Michael Wade SimpsonDanceSanta Fe,
The first dance Twyla Tharp choreographed for her new modern dance company in 1965 was called, “Tank Dive.” Tharp walked out in a pair of heeled shoes and vigorously hurled a yo-yo toward the floor as Petula Clark’s pop hit, ...
Nancy S. BishopBooks & CDsChicago,
Lahr and Martha Lavey, "Steppenwolf" artistic director, were seated on a stage dressed for the cluttered Irish bachelor-hoarder’s apartment for the current Steppenwolf production, Conor McPherson’s "The Night Alive." Lavey was prepared with her own advance copy of the book ...
Shelley Jackson and Joseph Dennis go centerstage at SF Opera
Michael Wade SimpsonFeaturesSanta Fe,
Two-thousand fourteen may be remembered at Santa Fe Opera as the year of the understudy. First there was Shelley Jackson, a second-year apprentice, stepping in as Norina, the female lead in “Don Pasquale.” Laura Tatulescu, the soprano originally cast in ...
Michael Wade SimpsonFeaturesSanta Fe,
“Carmen” and “Don Pasquale” may be alternating onstage at the opera this weekend, but that won’t stop cast members in the two operas from fraternizing. Daniela Mack and Alek Shrader, who are playing, respectively, the title role in “Carmen,” and ...
