While Phantom has long been considered a classic, I believe it has taken on more importance in this new generation as the bridge to the Broadway of the past.
Based in Berkeley, California, PlayGround is an intensely creative incubator program for aspiring playwrights in which a monthly topic is assigned to participants.
It seems unfair not to mention every actor since so many are so good. As with all the shows at the Globe, they end with a dance as was traditional in Shakespeare's day. It's all you can do not to join in with them, so transporting is their work.
Edith Truesdell was an accomplished artist whose art and presence affected the course of her nephew's development profoundly. Truesdell and Park were kindred spirits, and the shared qualities of their art emanated from deep familial and artistic connections.
We put out our thoughts, our stories, our images, our paintings --anything that makes the inner, invisible world visible to others -- and trust in their power to add grace and light and consciousness to the world.
For New York musical theater fans, Kelli O'Hara needs no introduction. A three-time Tony nominee her performances have garnered raves. O'Hara took time out from rehearsal to consider her career to date.
I am in the L.A. International Terminal, staring in disbelief at posters of Kandinsky, Sam Francis and Howard Hodgkin on the walls of McDonald's. I take it as a good omen for my mad dash to six cities in three countries.
The best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.
Spread over ten days and eight stages, Morroco's Mawazine festival is a juggernaut of a celebration of diversity and musicality.
Franz Liszt's lifelong quest for creative and spiritual growth straddled three musical epochs. Once the lion-king of musical Europe, Liszt ironically enters his bicentenary as something of a lamb to contemporary audiences.
Image-making is by definition always a process of objectification; Iranian-American artist Taravat Talepasand extends this process by incorporating the use of self-portraiture into her work.
All the rhythm is artificially created in a film -- in the theatre when the curtain goes up you are your own man, and it's terrifying -- there's no safety net.
A century and a half ago, you would not have heard extraordinary Schubert pieces except in the homes of musical friends. I doubt you would have heard performances as impassioned as those of David Finckel, Wu Han and Philip Setzer.
The Hammerstein Ballroom was packed for the Drama Desk Awards on Monday night. Broadway, off Broadway and off off Broadway casts and crews rubbed more than elbows, just getting to the stage at the announcements of their names.
The Dardenne brothers are an institution at Cannes: they have had several films in the competition in the last fifteen years, and have won the Palme d'Or twice: "We have a love story with Cannes."
Midnight in Paris is a bittersweet, impassioned romp through Paris: a journey through the psyche of a man who, while doing his best to avoid acknowledging death, finds he's avoiding what he desires most: a full experience of life.
It's Good Friday and I'm going up the river to Sing Sing. Superior Donuts, a play I had performed in Chicago and New York, is being staged as part of a program called Rehabilitation Through the Arts. I'm going to meet the cast.
Ty Fujimura, 2011.05.31
