Michael Wade SimpsonHouston,
Swan Lake Houston BalletJune 11, 2009Houston, TXhttp://www.houstonballet.org/Sara Webb and Connor Walsh. Photo by Amitava Sarkar.There's nothing quite like finding out your girlfriend's day job is being a swan. Siegfried and Odette, in Stanton Welch's Swan Lake, have the ultimate ...
Emily S. Mendel
Evil Under the Sun (2007)
Developer: AWE Games Publisher: The Adventure Company http://www.dreamcatchergames.com/
The third in the series of Agatha Christie PC games, Evil Under the Sun, again features that indomitable Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. This time, Poirot is ...
Culturevulture Plays [Computer] Games Much to my surprise and delight, I've found the best of the sub-sub-genre of computer "adventure games" to be completely engrossing, mesmerizing, fascinating and just plain fun. So please suspend your disbelief for a ...
Emily S. Mendel
Just as the U.S. presidential candidates begin to blanket the airwaves with promises that we doubt they can keep, along comes Masterpiece Theatre’s The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, the entirely entertaining tale of Ros Pritchard’s rocket ride from West Yorkshire to ...
Michael Wade Simpson
DVD Directed by Jimmy Bell http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=7073546 I admit it. My interest in reviewing this documentary is based entirely on the title. It’s called, “Don’t Hate: Strippers Fight the Government.” My interest only piqued after learning that the strippers in ...
Michael Wade Simpson
It is virtually impossible to doze off at a performance of Cirque de Soleil. What with the flashing lights, loud music and frequent applause for the high-flying daredevil acts, adrenaline alone should stave off the soporific state. And yet …
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Michael Wade Simpson
Maria de Buenos Gotham Chamber Opera Skirball Center http://www.gothamchamberopera.com/ David Parsons directed and choreographed this “operita” by Astor Piazzolla, with a small cast of two singers, a narrator, ten dancers, plus orchestra and chorus. Everything felt right in this ...
Suzanne WeissCA,
Cal Performances
Zellerbach Hall, University of California at Berkeley
October 26, 2008
(tour continues in various American cities through November 17, 2008)
http://www.jso.co.il/tourplan-eng.php
When you play second fiddle, you take more chances. That is perhaps why ...
Michael Wade Simpson
Mark Twain; Will Rogers … Americans historically love a good story as well as the raconteurs who have spun themselves into icons while spinning the tales. In our own day, the honors surely must go to Garrison Keillor who, thanks ...
Theodore Bale
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People Everyone Danspace Project/Abrons Arts Center Even when he is annoying or boring, Miguel Gutierrez is thought-provoking. As his cast of eight sauntered onstage one by one and stared for a long time at the ...
