Review
Pianist Noah Haidu’s impeccably performed and recorded “Standards II” is a winner.
The Aussie teen soap falls victim to the dreaded sophomore slump.
Who would predict that this perfectly calibrated tale would be yanked out of its early 20th century setting and become dystopian science-fiction?
In this dreamworld, the politics don’t matter. It’s the artfully gruesome spectacle that counts — that and the hackneyed Hollywood storyline about the hardened veteran mentoring the neophyte through an initiation into the harsh realities of the profession.
The Lyric Stage Company production almost meets the challenges posed by this delightfully inane musical farce.
“We have much less protection over our right to vote than most people think.”
Jean Trounstine’s experience enables her to present convincingly the desperate circumstances of people whose family members have been arrested and incarcerated, sometimes legitimately, often not.
Protecting the imagination — whether our own or others — means encouraging questions about whose voice isn’t being heard and why, whose words are being erased, and whose stories unsettle the status quo.
“A Great Disorder ” is brisk, bold, and thought-provoking, but the volume’s muddled concept of myth does it in.
The volume is an ambitious balancing act: the echoes of memory meet the grit of experience, musical language interlaced with occasional thick texture, nostalgic passion counterposed to philosophical calm.
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