Lewis Whittington writes about the performing and film arts for many publications. He is a renegade dance, theater and opera queen, a jazz-head and a civil activist.
Music
The Gonzales CantataLive Arts- Philly FringeSept. 4, 2009The Rotunda, Philadelphiawww.gonzalescantata.com Even though the Rotunda in West Philly was only a quarter filled for the premiere of composer Melissa Dunphy’s new choral work ‘The Gonzales Cantata‘ there was an undeniable ...
Theater
Welcome to Yuba CityPhiladelphia Fringe FestivalThe HubThrough September 19, 2009www.liveart-fringe.orgRod Serling would approvePig Iron Theatre serves up plenty of sagebrush philosophy at the diner in ‘Welcome to Yuba City’ located somewhere between Roswell and that last chance Texaco in ...
Theater
Never the Sinner-The Leopold and Loeb Story Mauckingbird Theatre CompanyAugust 8-30, 2009Adrienne Theatre, Philadelphia www.MauckingbirdTheatreCo.orgEven with the stock plotline of a murderous homosexual couple already built into the story, John Logan’s Never the Sinner -The Leopold and Loeb Story, ...
Dance
Ballet XThe Wilma Theatre, PhiladelphiaJuly 21-25, 2009http://www.balletx.org/http://www.wilmatheater.org/ Amy Aldridge, Matthew Prescott. "Broke Apart". Ballet X’s co-directors Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan continue to define the company with potent mixes of contemporary choreographers and bal-mod dancers giving their all physically, even ...
Dance
Philadelphia, The Performance Garage April 18 - 22, 2006 Jeanne Ruddy, a former principal with Martha Graham, established her own company, Jeanne Ruddy Dance (JRD) in Philadelphia at the Wilma Theater in 2001 after ...
Film
"Before O'Neill, there was no American theatre," the playwright John Guare asserts in Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film and Guare is someone who ought to know, being one of a legion of the playwright's creative theatrical descendants. Guare's ...
Film
The True Story of Artonin Artaud DVD (also includes the film, My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud ) Gerard Mordillat called his compelling 1993 dramatization of the life of Antonin Artaud ...
Film
Legendary French screen actor Antonin Artaud was a monstre sacre, an accolade meaning an irresistibly diabolical personage.His cinematic mystique, as well as his writings, such as The Theatre and Its Double and The Theatre of Cruelty, influenced a generation ...
Film
The near-forgotten French classic La Bataille du rail, by master neo-realist filmmaker Rene Clement, has been newly restored on DVD.This gut-wrenching World War II thriller depicts the French resistance fighters who sabotaged the Nazi occupation and defied Vichy conciliation. ...
Film
Ice Men is a buddy movie wrapped inside a gay flick around a situation comedy of testosterone manners. Cinematographer turned director Thom Best is known for his glossy episodes of the Showtime hit series Queer as Folk. That series ...
