To celebrate the release of Pandora’s Box coming to Blu-Ray on 30th October we have not 1, not 2 but 3 Blu-Rays to give away!
Eureka Entertainment to release G. W. Pabst’s sordid melodrama Pandora’S Box, one of silent cinema’s great masterworks, starring Louise Brooks. Presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, from a new restoration as part of The Masters of Cinema Series. Available from 30 October 2023, the Limited-edition set (3000 copies only) will feature a Hardbound Slipcase & 60-page Collectors Book.
Adapted from a pair of plays by Frank Wedekind, Pandora’s Box tells the story of prostitute Lulu (Louise Brooks), a free spirit whose open sexuality breeds chaos in its wake. When Lulu’s latest lover, the newspaper editor Dr Ludwig Schon, announces plans to leave her to marry a more respectable woman, Lulu is devastated. Cast in a musical revue written by Schon’s son, Alwa,...
Eureka Entertainment to release G. W. Pabst’s sordid melodrama Pandora’S Box, one of silent cinema’s great masterworks, starring Louise Brooks. Presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, from a new restoration as part of The Masters of Cinema Series. Available from 30 October 2023, the Limited-edition set (3000 copies only) will feature a Hardbound Slipcase & 60-page Collectors Book.
Adapted from a pair of plays by Frank Wedekind, Pandora’s Box tells the story of prostitute Lulu (Louise Brooks), a free spirit whose open sexuality breeds chaos in its wake. When Lulu’s latest lover, the newspaper editor Dr Ludwig Schon, announces plans to leave her to marry a more respectable woman, Lulu is devastated. Cast in a musical revue written by Schon’s son, Alwa,...
- 10/22/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Yvonne Rainer’s first film is a fascinating immersion in radical art practice in all its meta-narrative incoherence and mess
Here is the first film from avant garde film-maker Yvonne Rainer, showing as part of a retrospective of her work at the Ica in London, affording viewers a chance to appreciate the wonky, wonderful weirdness that was integral to the New York experimental art scene in the early 1970s. Aptly enough for an artist who started her career in the dance world (having studied with such luminaries as Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham), Rainer grounds this in the world of dance, opening with a rehearsal of a company running through different moves. Don’t be alarmed if no sound is coming through – it’s meant to be that way. Rainer plays throughout with audience expectations and need for narrative closure, offering little titbits of story and then whipping them away...
Here is the first film from avant garde film-maker Yvonne Rainer, showing as part of a retrospective of her work at the Ica in London, affording viewers a chance to appreciate the wonky, wonderful weirdness that was integral to the New York experimental art scene in the early 1970s. Aptly enough for an artist who started her career in the dance world (having studied with such luminaries as Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham), Rainer grounds this in the world of dance, opening with a rehearsal of a company running through different moves. Don’t be alarmed if no sound is coming through – it’s meant to be that way. Rainer plays throughout with audience expectations and need for narrative closure, offering little titbits of story and then whipping them away...
- 8/14/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Sixteen years after Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff and more budding Broadway stars first heard the word of their bodies, the original cast of Spring Awakening reunited on stage at the 2022 Tony Awards.
Michele presented the performance alongside Zach Braff, who originally introduced Spring Awakening at the 2007 Tonys. Michele then joined her fellow cast members — included Skylar Astin, Krysta Rodriguez and John Gallagher Jr. — for a performance of “Touch Me.”
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This cast...
Michele presented the performance alongside Zach Braff, who originally introduced Spring Awakening at the 2007 Tonys. Michele then joined her fellow cast members — included Skylar Astin, Krysta Rodriguez and John Gallagher Jr. — for a performance of “Touch Me.”
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- 6/13/2022
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
To say “My Best Part,” the directorial debut of “Call My Agent” assistant Nicolas Maury, revels in cringe-worthy moments is, perhaps, an understatement. The opening moments alone find a bowl-cut-sporting Jérémie (Maury) flummoxed by the very straightforward Gps directions spouted at him by his phone. Jérémie, you see, is a bit of a mess. A lot of a mess, actually. And, faced with the prospect of going left, the camera swivels alongside him, letting us take this frail waif of an adult man head on.
It’s such a laughable, nothing of a crisis — especially for someone on his way to group therapy, where he hopes to curb the gnawing jealousy that’s eroding the relationship with his dashing boyfriend — that you instantly know what Maury is grappling with. Here’s the kind of melancholy young man who might find himself at home in a late-19th-century sentimental German tale,...
It’s such a laughable, nothing of a crisis — especially for someone on his way to group therapy, where he hopes to curb the gnawing jealousy that’s eroding the relationship with his dashing boyfriend — that you instantly know what Maury is grappling with. Here’s the kind of melancholy young man who might find himself at home in a late-19th-century sentimental German tale,...
- 3/1/2022
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Can’t attend Spring Awakening‘s buzzy reunion concert in person? You’re no longer totally effed, thanks to HBO.
The premium cabler plans to chronicle the Broadway musical’s imminent anniversary performance in a documentary, according to our sister site Deadline. In addition to segments from the concert, the doc will include behind-the-scenes footage of the Broadway cast’s reunion, new interviews with the creative team and archival footage from the show’s initial run.
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The premium cabler plans to chronicle the Broadway musical’s imminent anniversary performance in a documentary, according to our sister site Deadline. In addition to segments from the concert, the doc will include behind-the-scenes footage of the Broadway cast’s reunion, new interviews with the creative team and archival footage from the show’s initial run.
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- 11/15/2021
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
Paul Auster on Smoke, Blue In The Face, and Lulu On The Bridge star Harvey Keitel: "I loved working with Harvey." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the first instalment of my conversation with author, screenwriter, and director Paul Auster at his home he discusses the performances of Willem Dafoe, Mira Sorvino, and Harvey Keitel in Lulu On The Bridge, Wings Of Desire, and his friendship with Wim Wenders. We touch on Louise Brooks and Vanessa Redgrave, Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, Arnaud Desplechin's view of Marion Cotillard’s character in Ismael's Ghosts, Hilma af Klint, and Ernst Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait.
Paul Auster on Willem Dafoe: "Willem is an ambiguous character, Van Horn is. I never thought of him as the devil, though. He's more like St. Peter." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Lulu on the Bridge, shot by Alik Sakharov (The Sopranos), edited by Tim Squyres,...
In the first instalment of my conversation with author, screenwriter, and director Paul Auster at his home he discusses the performances of Willem Dafoe, Mira Sorvino, and Harvey Keitel in Lulu On The Bridge, Wings Of Desire, and his friendship with Wim Wenders. We touch on Louise Brooks and Vanessa Redgrave, Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, Arnaud Desplechin's view of Marion Cotillard’s character in Ismael's Ghosts, Hilma af Klint, and Ernst Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait.
Paul Auster on Willem Dafoe: "Willem is an ambiguous character, Van Horn is. I never thought of him as the devil, though. He's more like St. Peter." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Lulu on the Bridge, shot by Alik Sakharov (The Sopranos), edited by Tim Squyres,...
- 11/30/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Louise Brooks is the last word in amoral cosmopolitan chic as the serial seducer Lulu in Gw Pabst’s magnificent tale of lust, greed and violence
Gw Pabst’s silent classic Pandora’s Box from 1928 is now on rerelease. It is his Weimar danse macabre, at the centre of which is Lulu, a beautiful woman who is a serial seducer and serial survivor, finally to fall victim to Jack the Ripper in London. This nauseous twist of fate is the final torsion of satire and melodrama for someone who is the plaything of her own fatal glamour.
The movie is based on the two plays by Frank Wedekind – Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora’s Box (1905). Louise Brooks plays the showgirl and adventuress Lulu, and her serene yet calculating beauty is framed in a severe black bob, of almost helmet-like shininess and purpose – the very last word in amoral cosmopolitan chic. She...
Gw Pabst’s silent classic Pandora’s Box from 1928 is now on rerelease. It is his Weimar danse macabre, at the centre of which is Lulu, a beautiful woman who is a serial seducer and serial survivor, finally to fall victim to Jack the Ripper in London. This nauseous twist of fate is the final torsion of satire and melodrama for someone who is the plaything of her own fatal glamour.
The movie is based on the two plays by Frank Wedekind – Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora’s Box (1905). Louise Brooks plays the showgirl and adventuress Lulu, and her serene yet calculating beauty is framed in a severe black bob, of almost helmet-like shininess and purpose – the very last word in amoral cosmopolitan chic. She...
- 5/30/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This year’s New York Film Festival has just unveiled a slew of Special Events to round out its already full-to-bursting lineup, and it includes some late-breaking entries to previously announced sections and a selection of brand new events that are very special indeed. Highlights include a trio of documentary premieres, including Susan Lacy’s “Spielberg” (focused on the eponymous director, with both Lacy and her subject set to appear at the festival), along with Jennifer Lebeau’s Bob Dylan concert film “Trouble No More,” and Susan Froemke’s “The Opera House,” a history of the Metropolitan Opera and a love letter to the art form that will (appropriately enough) screen at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.
Other standouts include four brand-new films from Claude Lanzmann, a sparkling new restoration of G.W. Pabst’s “Pandora’s Box.” Elsewhere, Kate Winslet will be on hand for a career-spanning chat...
Other standouts include four brand-new films from Claude Lanzmann, a sparkling new restoration of G.W. Pabst’s “Pandora’s Box.” Elsewhere, Kate Winslet will be on hand for a career-spanning chat...
- 8/28/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
For cinephiles who prize mysterious, forbidding atmosphere over a straightforward narrative, it’s been a long wait for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s second feature. Her gorgeous debut, Innocence, played the festival circuit in 2004 (and got a tiny U.S. release the following year); viewers who’d read that she’s creatively involved with Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter The Void), and braced themselves for something similarly confrontational, were instead treated to an uncommonly delicate coming-of-age allegory set in a very odd girls’ boarding school. Hadzihalilovic’s formal precision in that film, combined with the quietly outré choice of material (it was adapted from a 1903 novella by Frank Wedekind), was impressive enough to inspire intense curiosity about what she’d do next. For over a decade, though, what she did next was nothing. So it was cause for celebration when Evolution finally turned up, and a great relief to discover that ...
- 11/23/2016
- by Mike D'Angelo
- avclub.com
Today in 2006, Spring Awakening opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where it ran for 859 performances. Spring Awakening is a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the controversial German play Spring Awakening 1891 by Frank Wedekind which was banned in Germany for some time due to its frank portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. Set in late-19th century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. In the musical, alternative rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score.The original Broadway production won 8 Tony Awards, including Tonys for Best Musical, Direction, Book, Score and Featured Actor. The production also garnered 4 Drama Desk Awards whilst its original cast album received a Grammy Award.
- 12/10/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
The repressed youth in Frank Wedekind’s much-banned play “Spring’s Awakening” learn how to suffer. Because these kids don’t know much about sex in fin de siècle Germany, they end up homeless, committing suicide, or having botched abortions that lead to their death. None of them, however, goes to a mental institution, the route that Natalie Wood takes in “Splendor in the Grass,” my personal favorite of the genre, because she refuses to have sex with Warren Beatty. Crazy, indeed. “Spring Awakening,” the Tony-winning 2006 musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, is just as unsubtle as the Wedekind play and “Splendor.
- 9/28/2015
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
There's one ironclad rule for mad scientist movies: if you show a monstrous caged ape-creature in the first act, that ape-creature must absolutely break loose and wreak havoc before the end of Act III. Just ask George Zucco or John Carradine, they'll tell you. It makes no difference if the film is being made on Gower Gulch, or at Germany's prestigious UfA Studios. Alraune Region 2 Pal (Germany) DVD Arthaus 1952 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 87 min. / Unnatural, Mandragore, Vengeance / Street Date July 6, 2007 / Available at Amazon.de / Eur 16,90 Starring Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim, Karlheinz Böhm, Harry Meyen, Rolf Henniger, Harry Halm, Hans Cossy, Gardy Brombacher, Trude Hesterberg, Julia Koschka, Denise Vernac. Cinematography Friedl Behn-Grund Film Editor Doris Zeitman Costume Designer Herbert Pioberger Original Music Werner R. Heymann Written by Kurt Heuser from the novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers Produced by Günther Stapenhorst Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenault
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson...
- 9/8/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Daniel Bird: “What is your opinion of Walerian Borowczyk’s work?”Andrzej Żuławski: “Borowczyk? Oh, he lost himself, I think, it’s a pity because he was quite a talent.” One radical filmmaker laments another radical. With one sentence, Żuławski encapsulates the conventional arc of Borowczyk, or as he calls himself in Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre (1967), Boro’s career. He was a great animator working with Jan Lenica in Poland and, when moving to France, Chris Marker[1]. His shorts influenced Jan Švankmajer, Terry Gilliam, and the Quay Brothers, and were praised by critics like Amos Vogel and Raymond Durgnat. With his first two live-action feature-films, Goto, Island of Love (1968) and Blanche (1971), critics hailed Boro as part of the major league—an auteur. He’s the next Bresson! He’s the next Buñuel! Then he made Immoral Tales (1974), a blemish in his body of work at this point in his career.
- 4/1/2015
- by Tanner Tafelski
- MUBI
Today in 2006, Spring Awakening opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where it ran for 859 performances. Spring Awakening is a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the controversial German play Spring Awakening 1891 by Frank Wedekind which was banned in Germany for some time due to its frank portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. Set in late-19th century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. In the musical, alternative rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score.The original Broadway production won 8 Tony Awards, including Tonys for Best Musical, Direction, Book, Score and Featured Actor. The production also garnered 4 Drama Desk Awards whilst its original cast album received a Grammy Award.
- 12/10/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre is seeking actors for its production of “Spring Awakening, which will open March 7. “Spring Awakening” is a rock musical featuring music by Duncan Sheik based on the 1891 play of the same name by Frank Wedekind. The show opened on Broadway in 2006 and is often recognized for the sexual content and nudity. The production is seeking talent to fill 13 roles, and although the gig is not paid, it’s a chance to gain experience and work on your craft. Auditions will be held this weekend in Santa Monica, Calif. For more details, check out the casting notice for “Spring Awakening” here, and be sure to check out the rest of our audition listings!
- 1/17/2014
- backstage.com
Today in 2006, Spring Awakening opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where it ran for 859 performances. Spring Awakening is a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the controversial German play Spring Awakening 1891 by Frank Wedekind which was banned in Germany for some time due to its frank portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. Set in late-19th century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. In the musical, alternative rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score.The original Broadway production won 8 Tony Awards, including Tonys for Best Musical, Direction, Book, Score and Featured Actor. The production also garnered 4 Drama Desk Awards whilst its original cast album received a Grammy Award.
- 12/10/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lulu #1
Written by John Linton Roberson
Illustrated by John Linton Roberson
Published by Bottomless Studio
Lulu, adapted from the plays of Frank Wedekind, is the story of a truly free-spirited girl, unencumbered by society’s stipulations on what is right what is right and proper for lady. Set in a painter’s studio, Lulu is sitting for a portrait commissioned by her overbearing husband, Goll. It looks at her interactions with the men in her life and her overall world views.
Her decrepit husband, tries to control her, even forcing her to change her name to Nellie as part of their marriage contract and she fears that he will kill her if her sexual indiscretions become evident to him. Despite that she has no issues striping down and changing in front of two men who she is not married to or flirting with them either. When one man chides her for not wearing underwear,...
Written by John Linton Roberson
Illustrated by John Linton Roberson
Published by Bottomless Studio
Lulu, adapted from the plays of Frank Wedekind, is the story of a truly free-spirited girl, unencumbered by society’s stipulations on what is right what is right and proper for lady. Set in a painter’s studio, Lulu is sitting for a portrait commissioned by her overbearing husband, Goll. It looks at her interactions with the men in her life and her overall world views.
Her decrepit husband, tries to control her, even forcing her to change her name to Nellie as part of their marriage contract and she fears that he will kill her if her sexual indiscretions become evident to him. Despite that she has no issues striping down and changing in front of two men who she is not married to or flirting with them either. When one man chides her for not wearing underwear,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Rachel Brandt
- SoundOnSight
Today in 2006, Spring Awakening opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where it ran for 859 performances. Spring Awakening is a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the controversial German play Spring Awakening 1891 by Frank Wedekind which was banned in Germany for some time due to its frank portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. Set in late-19th century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. In the musical, alternative rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score.The original Broadway production won 8 Tony Awards, including Tonys for Best Musical, Direction, Book, Score and Featured Actor. The production also garnered 4 Drama Desk Awards whilst its original cast album received a Grammy Award.
- 12/10/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Spring Awakening, a groundbreaking and multi-award winning show, is being produced all over the United States as well as in 28 countries around the world. Now, 13 years after Steven Sater first conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious symbolist drama Frhlings Erwachen, Applause Theatre amp Cinema Books publishes Sater's notes on his famously evocative, poetic lyrics.In the video below, Sater chats with original stars Jonathan Groff and Lauren Pritchard aout what it was like in the beginning. Check it out below...
- 4/26/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 14, 2012
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Courtney Patterson (l.) and Zoe Cooper star in The Little Death.
The sexually charged 2010 independent drama-thriller The Little Death takes on the rather unique subject of early 20th Century brothels and that era’s psychology and philosophy on the “immorality” of prostitution.
The Little Death tells the story of a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) who ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner (Daniel May) and liberate a young woman (Christie Vozniak) whom she believes is being held there in sexual captivity. While the brothel’s owner attempts mesmerize and seduce the lovely would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) becomes a pawn in the increasingly risque game of sexual cat-and-mouse that is unfolding.
Based on the 1905 play Death and Devil by German playwright Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening), which is integrated with Anton Chekhov’s 1888 short story A Nervous Breakdown,...
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Courtney Patterson (l.) and Zoe Cooper star in The Little Death.
The sexually charged 2010 independent drama-thriller The Little Death takes on the rather unique subject of early 20th Century brothels and that era’s psychology and philosophy on the “immorality” of prostitution.
The Little Death tells the story of a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) who ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner (Daniel May) and liberate a young woman (Christie Vozniak) whom she believes is being held there in sexual captivity. While the brothel’s owner attempts mesmerize and seduce the lovely would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) becomes a pawn in the increasingly risque game of sexual cat-and-mouse that is unfolding.
Based on the 1905 play Death and Devil by German playwright Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening), which is integrated with Anton Chekhov’s 1888 short story A Nervous Breakdown,...
- 2/22/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Lou Reed and Metallica tapped award-winning director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) to direct a music video for their collaborative track “The View”. The idea was to base the music video on German expressionist Frank Wedekind’s controversial plays about a serial killing teenage prostitute. Well now the video from one of the unlikeliest collaborations is online, courtesy of IFC.com.
- 12/4/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Well, the result of one of the unlikeliest collaborations in some time here. As reported about a month ago, Darren Aronofsky took a gig directing the first video from Metallica and Lou Reed's absurd Lulu album, and it's now in the can and ready for your eyes. Considering the whole musical collaboration is based on German expressionsist Frank Wedekind's controversial plays about a serial killing teenage prostitute, the video for "The View" (not "Iced Honey" as first reported) is surprisingly tame. Debuting over at IFC, the spot is really nothing more than a black-and-white video of the band playing in a rehearsal space with a few effects and overlapping images to mix things up. Frankly, it almost feels like it was exhumed out of the 1990s alternative rock wave of videos, though that may also be because of Metallica's limp riffing too. But no matter what we feel about the song,...
- 12/3/2011
- The Playlist
Lou Reed and Metallica may at first seem to be a pairing at odds with what old fans of either New York's God of rock and roll, or The Black Album chart toppers would think prudent -- until you watch these two colossal entities in the same room together, through the lens of director Darren Aronofsky.
If there was something incongruous about the idea, Aronofsky's menacing camera puts that to rest, and Reed's villainous monotone suddenly seems at home indicting lustful fancy over Metallica's huge riffs.
"The first time I heard 'The View' I was stunned," Aronofsky said. "I had never heard anything like it. Half was all Lou. The other half all Metallica. It was a marriage that on the surface made no sense, but the fusion changed the way I thought about both artists and morphed into something completely fresh and new. I couldn't stop listening to it.
If there was something incongruous about the idea, Aronofsky's menacing camera puts that to rest, and Reed's villainous monotone suddenly seems at home indicting lustful fancy over Metallica's huge riffs.
"The first time I heard 'The View' I was stunned," Aronofsky said. "I had never heard anything like it. Half was all Lou. The other half all Metallica. It was a marriage that on the surface made no sense, but the fusion changed the way I thought about both artists and morphed into something completely fresh and new. I couldn't stop listening to it.
- 12/2/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
The director of Black Swan steps up to take on a song from Lou Reed and Metallica's collaborative album, Lulu
The award-winning film-maker Darren Aronofsky will direct a music video for a track from the new Metallica and Lou Reed album, Lulu.
Best-known for his Oscar-nominated films Black Swan and The Wrestler, Aronofsky will make a video for Iced Honey. Scenes will be shot in the San Francisco Bay area and will be available for viewing later this month.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said on 3 November that working with Reed and Aronofsky is "living the dream". Ulrich called making this album and video a monumental chapter in his life. "As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough, now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite film-makers since his first movie, Pi."
Reed said he shares Ulrich's affection for...
The award-winning film-maker Darren Aronofsky will direct a music video for a track from the new Metallica and Lou Reed album, Lulu.
Best-known for his Oscar-nominated films Black Swan and The Wrestler, Aronofsky will make a video for Iced Honey. Scenes will be shot in the San Francisco Bay area and will be available for viewing later this month.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said on 3 November that working with Reed and Aronofsky is "living the dream". Ulrich called making this album and video a monumental chapter in his life. "As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough, now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite film-makers since his first movie, Pi."
Reed said he shares Ulrich's affection for...
- 11/4/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
By John Carucci, The Associated Press
New York — Award-winning director Darren Aronofsky will direct a music video from the new Metallica and Lou Reed album, "Lulu."
Best-known for his Oscar-nominated films "Black Swan" and "The Wrestler," Aronofsky will produce a video for the track, "Iced Honey." Scenes will be shot in the San Francisco Bay area and will be available for viewing later this month.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said in a statement Thursday that working with Reed and Aronofsky is "living the dream."
Ulrich called making this album and video a monumental chapter in his life.
"As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough, now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite filmmakers since his first movie, "Pi."
The avant-garde Reed said he shares Ulrich's affection for that film as well and he hoped the video "can be his next Black Swan.
New York — Award-winning director Darren Aronofsky will direct a music video from the new Metallica and Lou Reed album, "Lulu."
Best-known for his Oscar-nominated films "Black Swan" and "The Wrestler," Aronofsky will produce a video for the track, "Iced Honey." Scenes will be shot in the San Francisco Bay area and will be available for viewing later this month.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said in a statement Thursday that working with Reed and Aronofsky is "living the dream."
Ulrich called making this album and video a monumental chapter in his life.
"As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough, now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite filmmakers since his first movie, "Pi."
The avant-garde Reed said he shares Ulrich's affection for that film as well and he hoped the video "can be his next Black Swan.
- 11/3/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
By Wayne Parry, The Associated Press
I'm still not sure if this is the worst piece of junk to be produced in album form in the last 20 years, or genius at a level so brilliant it's beyond my mere mortal capacity to appreciate it. But I'm still leaning toward the former.
This is a concept album (Warning! Warning!) based on two century-old works by German playwright Frank Wedekind, "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box," which tell the story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships. It is disturbing, annoying, grating and sometimes downright unlistenable. It's also powerful, brutal, and more than an hour and a half long.
Reed, he of the venerable Velvet Underground and best known for the counterculture anthem "Walk On The Wild Side," dishes out spoken poetry for most of the record, which, believe it or not, is a good thing: as a vocalist, Reed makes Bob Dylan sound like Freddie Mercury.
I'm still not sure if this is the worst piece of junk to be produced in album form in the last 20 years, or genius at a level so brilliant it's beyond my mere mortal capacity to appreciate it. But I'm still leaning toward the former.
This is a concept album (Warning! Warning!) based on two century-old works by German playwright Frank Wedekind, "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box," which tell the story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships. It is disturbing, annoying, grating and sometimes downright unlistenable. It's also powerful, brutal, and more than an hour and a half long.
Reed, he of the venerable Velvet Underground and best known for the counterculture anthem "Walk On The Wild Side," dishes out spoken poetry for most of the record, which, believe it or not, is a good thing: as a vocalist, Reed makes Bob Dylan sound like Freddie Mercury.
- 11/1/2011
- by Gazelle Emami
- Huffington Post
All the leaves are nearly brown, skies sometimes gray, there's a slight chill in the air, and my ears and eyes have been quite busy. A touch of melancholia and a satchel full of dreams yet to be realized. Winter is just around the corner. A hint of summer still lingers in the late afternoon sun. Walks in the park with the dog, shared playlists on Spotify providing the soundtrack. I remain an ever faithful servant to smart culture's demands.
"Cicadas and Gulls" Feist Metals (Cherrytree) - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist displays her chops in full maturity on her third CD. So much to enjoy, yet I'm continually drawn to this evocative, simple double-tracked voice and acoustic guitar folk song. I suspect it fully captures my current mood.
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" The Smiths Complete Box Set (Rhino) - Rarely do I purchase music, one...
"Cicadas and Gulls" Feist Metals (Cherrytree) - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist displays her chops in full maturity on her third CD. So much to enjoy, yet I'm continually drawn to this evocative, simple double-tracked voice and acoustic guitar folk song. I suspect it fully captures my current mood.
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" The Smiths Complete Box Set (Rhino) - Rarely do I purchase music, one...
- 10/28/2011
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
By Alicia Quarles, The Associated Press
New York — Metallica and the word "scared" don't usually go together.
But fear was one of the emotions that band members felt when they began work on their latest album, "Lulu," a collaboration with Lou Reed that will be released Tuesday.
"That was scary, but it was also so exciting to think, `Is he going to tell us what to play? Are we going to know what to play? Is he going to start singing randomly? Should we figure out some parts?'" lead singer James Hetfield said in an interview. "We have had many different ways of recording, and this is yet another new way for us."
Reed and Metallica, both members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first performed together at the hall's 25th-anniversary concerts in 2009. They found that they had amazing chemistry together.
That chemistry prompted them to go into the studio together,...
New York — Metallica and the word "scared" don't usually go together.
But fear was one of the emotions that band members felt when they began work on their latest album, "Lulu," a collaboration with Lou Reed that will be released Tuesday.
"That was scary, but it was also so exciting to think, `Is he going to tell us what to play? Are we going to know what to play? Is he going to start singing randomly? Should we figure out some parts?'" lead singer James Hetfield said in an interview. "We have had many different ways of recording, and this is yet another new way for us."
Reed and Metallica, both members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first performed together at the hall's 25th-anniversary concerts in 2009. They found that they had amazing chemistry together.
That chemistry prompted them to go into the studio together,...
- 10/28/2011
- by Gazelle Emami
- Huffington Post
Might be a weird week to be Metallica. The band is on the verge of releasing Lulu, a collaboration with Lou Reed that has earned some of the most scornful reactions I've ever seen directed at any album in any genre. But no matter what happens, reviews be damned, Metallica keeps on going. I can respect that, even if I can't respect all of the work the band does. The band has a strange place in film history. The first major film allowed to use the band's music was Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. The prominence the songs gave the documentary is credited with helping bring attention to the three young men, aka the West Memphis Three, convicted of murdering young boys in Arkansas. The association between the band and Paradise Lost directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky resulted in the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster,...
- 10/22/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Metallica and Lou Reed have made their new album available to stream online. The pairing are offering fans the chance to listen to their collaborative album Lulu 11 days ahead of its official release on October 31. The album - available via loureedMetallica.com - was inspired by German playwright Frank Wedekind's play of the same name and will contain ten new tracks from the musical collective. Metallica and Reed previously unveiled the first official trailer for the record and described (more)...
- 10/20/2011
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Metallica and Lou Reed have posted a new trailer for their forthcoming collaboration project online. The pairing will release their album Lulu in the UK on October 31 and the following day in the Us on November 1. The trailer sees Reed and Metallica's James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich talking about how they have each influenced the album, which is based around Frank Wedekind's 1913 play Lulu. Ulrich describes the album as "an exciting ride to be on", while Reed explained the record "did more than it dared (more)...
- 10/7/2011
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Versatile actor and writer often called upon to play toffs and bumbling clerics
The actor Jonathan Cecil, who has died of pneumonia aged 72 after suffering from emphysema, spent much of his career playing upper-class characters. That is hardly surprising since his father was Lord David Cecil, Goldsmiths' professor of English literature at Oxford University, and Jonathan's grandfather was the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. Although often typecast as a comic blueblood, there was infinitely more to Jonathan than that. He excelled in Chekhov and Shakespeare, and four times played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, always investing the character with a silvery pathos. In 1998 he had an outstanding season at Shakespeare's Globe, where he appeared in As You Like It and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, in which he played Sir Bounteous Progress – "gazing benignly", as John Gross wrote, "on almost everything, even his own undoing".
I...
The actor Jonathan Cecil, who has died of pneumonia aged 72 after suffering from emphysema, spent much of his career playing upper-class characters. That is hardly surprising since his father was Lord David Cecil, Goldsmiths' professor of English literature at Oxford University, and Jonathan's grandfather was the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. Although often typecast as a comic blueblood, there was infinitely more to Jonathan than that. He excelled in Chekhov and Shakespeare, and four times played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, always investing the character with a silvery pathos. In 1998 he had an outstanding season at Shakespeare's Globe, where he appeared in As You Like It and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, in which he played Sir Bounteous Progress – "gazing benignly", as John Gross wrote, "on almost everything, even his own undoing".
I...
- 9/25/2011
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Lou Reed and Metallica have unveiled the full tracklisting of their Lulu collaboration. The project is based around the plays of Frank Wedekind and will be released in the UK via Universal on October 31 and the Us on November 1 through Warner Bros. Lulu has been produced by Lou Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner and mixed by Greg Fidelman. As previously announced, the album features ten songs and was recorded "in what would be lightning-speed for a Metallica-related project". Reed has claimed that the album "could create another planetary system". He added: "I'm not joking, and I'm not being egotistical." (more)...
- 9/7/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
So, does this image work for you? Metallica and Lou Reed have released the cover art for their forthcoming album, “Lulu.” The album, out Nov. 1 in the U.S., is inspired by two plays by German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind: “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box,” as we previously reported. Reed originally took the ideas expressed in the plays, about an abused dancer, and began writing a musical. He then joined with the Metallica lads to finish the project. Producers include Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner and Greg Fidelman. The track listing is slowing rolling out: so far, song titles for “Lulu” are...
- 9/2/2011
- Hitfix
Lou Reed and Metallica’s collaborative album, Lulu, now has a cover and the thing is pretty scary. The album was inspired by Frank Wedekind, the German expressionist playwright behind the “Lulu plays,” which follow a young dancer who is abused. And the cover seems to follow along with that story, with a young girl/mannequin torso with an eerily-real face. The album will be available on Nov. 1 in America on Warner Bros. Records.
- 9/2/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Metallica and Lou Reed have announced the name of their new album together. The musical pairing revealed that their first collaborative album will be named Lulu and is due to be released on October 31. The metal band and former frontman of The Velvet Underground have also launched an official website for the project. They wrote on the site: "Lulu was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind's plays 'Earth Spirit' and 'Pandora's Box', which tell a story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships. "Since their publication in the early 1900s, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film, an opera, and countless other creative endeavours." They continued: "Originally the lyrics (more)...
- 8/22/2011
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
London -- Rachel Weisz was named best actress in a play as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Mark Rylance best actor for "Jerusalem" at the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, hosted by Anthony Head and presented Sunday evening.
"The Mountaintop" saw American Katori Hall become the first black female playwright to win the Olivier for best new play while Broadway transfer "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was named best revival.
In musical honors, Broadway hit but London flop "Spring Awakening" was named best new show with the production's Aneurin Barnard winning as best actor and Iwan Rheon for best supporting performance.
"Hello Dolly!" won as best musical revival with Samantha Spiro named best actress in the title role and Stephen Mear best choreographer. "Wicked" picked up the audience award for most popular show while Michael Wynne's "The Priory" won the best new comedy award and Tim Whitnall's "Morecambe" won as best entertainment.
"The Mountaintop" saw American Katori Hall become the first black female playwright to win the Olivier for best new play while Broadway transfer "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was named best revival.
In musical honors, Broadway hit but London flop "Spring Awakening" was named best new show with the production's Aneurin Barnard winning as best actor and Iwan Rheon for best supporting performance.
"Hello Dolly!" won as best musical revival with Samantha Spiro named best actress in the title role and Stephen Mear best choreographer. "Wicked" picked up the audience award for most popular show while Michael Wynne's "The Priory" won the best new comedy award and Tim Whitnall's "Morecambe" won as best entertainment.
- 3/21/2010
- by By Ray Bennett
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Haneke's unforgettable 2009 Palme d'Or winner is exact in its composition, yet allows for gentleness and humour
As the decade progressed, the reputation of this German-born Austrian director increased almost exponentially. His movies were difficult, extreme, painful and confrontational; yet a box-office smash with his surveillance nightmare Hidden took him out of the arthouse ghetto and in 2009 he won the Cannes Palme d'Or for this period movie made in black-and-white.
Set in a remote Protestant village of northern Germany in 1913, the film is about an outwardly placid rural community which is in fact repressive and plagued with anonymous acts of retaliatory malice and spite. The authorities clamp down further, and so the cycle goes on. There is no clear solution to the puzzle of who is carrying out these acts. The mystery simply deepens. But it is clear that the village children hold the key. We are witnessing the...
As the decade progressed, the reputation of this German-born Austrian director increased almost exponentially. His movies were difficult, extreme, painful and confrontational; yet a box-office smash with his surveillance nightmare Hidden took him out of the arthouse ghetto and in 2009 he won the Cannes Palme d'Or for this period movie made in black-and-white.
Set in a remote Protestant village of northern Germany in 1913, the film is about an outwardly placid rural community which is in fact repressive and plagued with anonymous acts of retaliatory malice and spite. The authorities clamp down further, and so the cycle goes on. There is no clear solution to the puzzle of who is carrying out these acts. The mystery simply deepens. But it is clear that the village children hold the key. We are witnessing the...
- 12/28/2009
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
If… (15) Lindsay Anderson, 1968 Starring Malcolm McDowell
Made in the heady days of global unrest and protest, Anderson's boarding-school flick caught the mood of anti-establishment disaffection. Its exotic flourishes – making out with a libidinous waitress; gunning down the faculty with weapons stolen from the cadet force armoury – fuelled the fantasies of rebellious schoolboys everywhere.
Best scene
College House listens in uncomfortable silence as Travis (McDowell) is given a brutal caning by the head whip.
Flirting (15) John Duigan, 1991
Starring Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton
"One thing about boarding school, 24 hours a day, you're surrounded," begins misfit Taylor, stuck in a rural Australian boys' school in 1965. "Either you abandon yourself and become a herd animal, or dig deeper into your head and skulk inside." Taylor finds a different path when he discovers love with Newton from a nearby girls' school.
Best scene
Taylor defends his girlfriend's honour, in the boxing ring against the school's top pugilist.
Made in the heady days of global unrest and protest, Anderson's boarding-school flick caught the mood of anti-establishment disaffection. Its exotic flourishes – making out with a libidinous waitress; gunning down the faculty with weapons stolen from the cadet force armoury – fuelled the fantasies of rebellious schoolboys everywhere.
Best scene
College House listens in uncomfortable silence as Travis (McDowell) is given a brutal caning by the head whip.
Flirting (15) John Duigan, 1991
Starring Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton
"One thing about boarding school, 24 hours a day, you're surrounded," begins misfit Taylor, stuck in a rural Australian boys' school in 1965. "Either you abandon yourself and become a herd animal, or dig deeper into your head and skulk inside." Taylor finds a different path when he discovers love with Newton from a nearby girls' school.
Best scene
Taylor defends his girlfriend's honour, in the boxing ring against the school's top pugilist.
- 12/6/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Haneke's Palme D'or winner offers a spellbinding tale of bigotry and brutality in a pre-Great War rural German community, says Philip French
Numerous novelists, dramatists and film-makers have been attracted to the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the First World War to give their work a touch of nostalgia, irony or historical resonance.
Jb Priestley, whose life had been transformed by his experiences on the Western Front, was among the earliest with his 1934 play Eden End, set in 1912 Yorkshire. Isabel Colegate's novel The Shooting Party (filmed by Alan Bridges in 1984) takes place at a grand country house in 1913. István Szabó's movie Colonel Redl cuts straight from its eponymous antihero's death to the Austro-Hungarian army going into battle, though it was as early as 1916 that the Austrian wit Karl Kraus launched one of the last century's greatest cliches by having a newsboy enter a Viennese cafe shouting: "Extra!
Numerous novelists, dramatists and film-makers have been attracted to the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the First World War to give their work a touch of nostalgia, irony or historical resonance.
Jb Priestley, whose life had been transformed by his experiences on the Western Front, was among the earliest with his 1934 play Eden End, set in 1912 Yorkshire. Isabel Colegate's novel The Shooting Party (filmed by Alan Bridges in 1984) takes place at a grand country house in 1913. István Szabó's movie Colonel Redl cuts straight from its eponymous antihero's death to the Austro-Hungarian army going into battle, though it was as early as 1916 that the Austrian wit Karl Kraus launched one of the last century's greatest cliches by having a newsboy enter a Viennese cafe shouting: "Extra!
- 11/15/2009
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Here’s your daily dose of theater nerd news: Yesterday, EW’s Hollywood Insider announced that actor Jonathan Groff will appear in a few upcoming episodes of Fox’s new hit drama Glee. Groff, who starred for several years in the anachronistic Broadway revival of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening (and recently appeared in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock) will play the leader of Vocal Adrenaline, the unmatched rival of McKinley High’s fledgling glee club....
- 10/20/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Zeitgeist Stage presents the original Wedekind play in a new adaptation. Spring Awakening, written in the 1890's, is Frank Wedekind's ground breaking play about adolescent sexuality that is the most censored play in theater history, not getting produced as originally written for 75 years. The show examines the lives of teenagers in provincial Germany as their sexual awakenings are repressed by the conservative society of their parents.
- 4/22/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Director McG is breaking away from the action genre to bring hit Broadway musical Spring Awakening to the big screen.
The filmmaker behind Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and the forthcoming Terminator: Salvation is in talks to direct and produce the controversial rock opera, about a group of schoolboys in 19th century Germany who are discovering their sexuality.
The Tony Award-winning production is based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 play and covers topics including masturbation, rape, abortion and suicide.
The filmmaker behind Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and the forthcoming Terminator: Salvation is in talks to direct and produce the controversial rock opera, about a group of schoolboys in 19th century Germany who are discovering their sexuality.
The Tony Award-winning production is based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 play and covers topics including masturbation, rape, abortion and suicide.
- 4/15/2009
- WENN
The short-but-sweet McG wants to return to his music man days, and get in on Hugh Jackman's Musical Renaissance ... and he's going to take the edgier route to get there. According to The Hollywood Reporter, McG is bringing Broadway's Spring Awakening to the big screen with help from its original creators Steven Sater and Duncan Shiek.
Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play, the rock musical follows a group of 19th century German teenagers as they discover their sexuality, and deal with the hot button topics of masturbation, abortion, rape, sexual abuse, and suicide. The play was banned Wedekind's native land, and played once in New York in 1917, though it narrowly escaped being shut down for being poronographic.
Despite the risky content, the 2006 musical adaptation fared a lot better. It was a critical and box office success, and took home a ton of Tony awards, including best musical, best book,...
Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play, the rock musical follows a group of 19th century German teenagers as they discover their sexuality, and deal with the hot button topics of masturbation, abortion, rape, sexual abuse, and suicide. The play was banned Wedekind's native land, and played once in New York in 1917, though it narrowly escaped being shut down for being poronographic.
Despite the risky content, the 2006 musical adaptation fared a lot better. It was a critical and box office success, and took home a ton of Tony awards, including best musical, best book,...
- 4/14/2009
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- Cinematical
Terminator Salvation helmer McG is attached to direct a big screen version of hit rock musical Spring Awakening. Steven Sater, who penned the original book and stage lyrics, is developing the big screen project with McG, says The Hollywood Reporter. Spring Awakening follows a group of teenagers in 19th century Germany as they discover their sexuality. It is based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 (more)...
- 4/14/2009
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
What were you doing over the Easter holidays? Lazing around, hosting a BBQ or two, watching a Come Dine With Me marathon perhaps? Well, not McG – he spent the weekend entering into talks to direct and produce a movie version of the hit Broadway musical, Spring Awakening.A relative newcomer on the musical scene, Spring Awakening has received high praise for its excellent songs and uncompromising storyline, in which a group of schoolboys in late nineteenth-century Germany discover their sexuality. The musical, based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play, touches on several controversial topics, such as masturbation, rape, abortion, and suicide. Just right for the director of Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.We’re joking, of course. Terminator Salvation (and, before that, We Are Marshall) seems to have heralded a new, adult chapter in the career of the professional Steve McClaren look-a-like, and Spring Awakening looks set to continue that.At the moment,...
- 4/14/2009
- EmpireOnline
Right after he straightened out Christian Bale in "Terminator Salvation," McG will next face the music with "Spring Awakening" based on the well-revered Broadway show!
Here's some fun facts about "Spring Awakening" from wiki:
Spring Awakening is a Tony Award-winning rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater. The musical is based on the controversial 1891 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. Set in late-nineteenth century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. The original play was banned in Germany due to its portrayal of masturbation, abortion, rape and suicide. In the musical, alt-rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score.
I heard that McG is not asking for any studio backing because he doesn't want anyone meddling with his vision. Good for him!
Still curious about "Spring Awakening?" Here's a little snippet...
Here's some fun facts about "Spring Awakening" from wiki:
Spring Awakening is a Tony Award-winning rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater. The musical is based on the controversial 1891 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. Set in late-nineteenth century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. The original play was banned in Germany due to its portrayal of masturbation, abortion, rape and suicide. In the musical, alt-rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score.
I heard that McG is not asking for any studio backing because he doesn't want anyone meddling with his vision. Good for him!
Still curious about "Spring Awakening?" Here's a little snippet...
- 4/14/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Heading to college? Back Stage asked six current undergraduate drama students from around the United States to describe their lives on campus. We run the gamut: R.J. Magee is just starting at Temple University in Philadelphia, while Rachel Lewis is a few months from finishing her degree at Nyu, mere blocks from the lights of Broadway. In Dallas, Erik Carter wants to change the world as performer and as playwright. Nathaniel Beaver works on stage and behind the scenes in University of Central Florida's student-run festivals. And in North Carolina, third-year student Jasmine Osborne is finally getting to perform, while at UCLA freshman Valerie Brandy is performing in a campus soap opera. Want to read more? Follow our student actors on Back Stage's actor-written blog Unscripted ( Unscripted) for the remainder of the semester.Rachel Marie Lewis New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Senior, Bfa in Drama I...
- 3/11/2009
- backstage.com
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