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Posted by Bob Martin in Actors, Art, Creativity, Live Performance, Movies, Theater, Writers on 12 15th, 2009 | No Comments
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels”
This quote, attributed to Tennessee Williams is said differently in the 2008 film Transsiberian (“Kill off my demons and My angels might die too”) can be said about all of us. The heroine Jessie, played by Emily Mortimer who’s beauty is hidden by the innocent gangling lumber of her...
“Viva ELVIS” in Vegas
Eventually Cirque du Soleil will create a show about each of us, but until then it is Elvis that is up next. Starting next month in Vegas at the MGM Mirage’s City Center. The show is being directed by Vincent Paterson best known as a choreographer. It will most likely be as spectacular as the 100...
Theater Re-Opens – Things Lost in War
Baghdad’s theater re-opens with a night time performance of “To enjoy the sweetness you must taste the bitterness” a play directed
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and performed by Iraqis. The impact of war or any kind of violence is devastating to any community regardless of its size. What may go unnoticed...
Posted by Sandy in Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Events, Live Performance, Poem, Theater, music on 07 25th, 2009 | No Comments
“for colored girls…” * in Atlanta!
“for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf” at Southwest Arts Center until August 9.
Long title for a great play – saw it on Broadway in the late 70’s and recently saw a 1982 televised version on DVD. Perhaps not as shocking or controversial as it...
Anoushka Shankar at Davies Symphony Hall
You’re going to want to dance this October 29th at the San Francisco Jazz Festival. Anoushka teams up with her more famous father to bring some international joy to the house. Tickets are on sale now
Ravi Shankar is an iconic and legendary musician. Listening to him play awakens a mystical spirit...
Posted by Bob Martin in Actors, Art, Artist Residencies, Culture, Dance, Education, Events, Live Performance, Writing and Speaking on 06 26th, 2009 | No Comments
Love What You do
The key to a great career is to be totally in love with what you do. Helen Mirren must have been in more then 50 movies and a equal amount of plays and TV series. She is remarkably in that she continues to work. Her first credits go back to 1967.
London’s National Theatre Production of Phèdre...
Posted by Bob Martin in Art, Artist, Books, Culture, Events, Lecture, Live Performance on 06 16th, 2009 | No Comments
Frida’s Birthday – Once More
SAT JULY 11TH BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT “VIVA FRIDA!” FEATURES THE PHOENIX FRIDAS CRAFT COLLECTIVE
The Valley’s most popular craft collective, The Phoenix Fridas, returns to Tempe’s Changing Hands Bookstore on Saturday July 11 from 1 to 5 p.m. for “Viva Frida!” to celebrate the birth of the world’s...
Playing Monk – Interpretations
Jessica Williams
Both Jessica Williams and Eric Reed do something with Thelonious Monk’s music that I imagine to be difficult and that is, taking creative liberties in the same way that Monk might have approached them if he were still alive.
Eric Reed
There is freshness in their interpretation...
It’s All In the Music
Leonard Bernstein
The music for ” West Side Story” works so well and it is the reason for me to want to see this new revival. The story everyone will admit is an old story. The dancing is wonderful and the staging magnificent, but it is the music and score that stays with you. I hope the...
The Grammy Awards – Adele
Adele Adkins
Watched the Grammy Awards last night and they were more enjoyable (for me) then in past years. I was surprised that Adele won best new artist primarily because she is someone whose music and voice I like a lot. Plus I was certain that the cute boys (Jonas Brothers) had the inside track.
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