Review
When no-one was looking, Ian MacKaye and a group of young people like him created one of American alternative music’s most important and unique scenes.
There was more than one reference to Alvin Ailey himself in Odetta, recalling Ailey’s frequent use of a female protagonist and his choices of other noted black artists as inspiration.
Ascending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi’s I’ve heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.
The Golden Dragon Acrobats’ Cirque Zíva is part dance, part acrobatics, and 100 percent spectacle.
The Zellner brothers’ excellent film is inspired by a Japanese urban legend of a young woman who came to America supposedly because of Fargo, and then committed suicide in the snows.
Each piece is so different from the others in Shades of Sound that the evening provides something for everyone, giving the company a chance to showcase its phenomenal technique.
Winter Sleep is not the cinematic masterpiece so many have been hailing it to be.
The Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.
The problem is that John August’s book for the musical lacks most of what made his screenplay for the 2003 film so emotionally resonant for so many.
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