In advance of American Conservatory Theater's A.C.T. upcoming U.S. premiere of James Fenton's acclaimed adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao, a classic Chinese legend that has its roots in the fourth century Bce, A.C.T. and the Commonwealth Club of California are proud to present Bd Wong and A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff in Conversation for one-night-only - Monday, May 19 at 730 p.m. at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater 415 Geary St., San Francisco.
- 4/21/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Christmas Day 2012 marks the biggest and best day of the year for many Broadway babies around the world, but the anticipatory fervor has little to do with the man with the beard in red and white from the North Pole - you see, the guy in question in this equation is more apt to be seen in red and black and his origins are decidedly a bit more Gallic than Jolly Old St. Nick. The man whom I speak of is, of course, Jean Valjean, the protagonist of Victor Hugo's spellbinding 1862 historical epic Les Miserables, a novel which was subsequently adapted into a 1980 concert spectacular and ultimately a 1985 full-fledged stage musical, painstakingly developed through the shepherding of uber producer Cameron Mackintosh, alongside the talents responsible for breathing song into the story - original French composerlyricist team Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil along with Jean-Marc Natel, to whom Mackintosh...
- 12/23/2012
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
As it does from time to time, most recently with James Fenton's loving takedown of Downton Abbey, the New York Review of Books has once again dipped into the world of television for a highbrow take on a (relatively) highbrow series. The show in question is Girls, and Elaine Blair does not waste time: "There are many reasons to love Lena Dunham’s HBO television show Girls," reads the opening sentence, "and some of them have nothing to do with sex, but I’m going to begin with the sex scene in the second episode that most critics have mentioned and described with some amount of repugnance or lament." So begins the official Backlash to the Backlash, and also a thoughtful essay on the sex — and the critical concern about the sex — portrayed on Girls. Please, join us for a quick breakdown, won't you?1. The "bad" sex scenes are good,...
- 5/16/2012
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
A formidable lineup of writers, editors, actors, scientists, and assorted intellectuals gathered at Cooper Union's Great Hall, at 7 East 7th Street, to revive for one last occasion the voice of Christopher Hitchens, which was silenced by esophageal cancer on December 15, 2011.
The novelist Martin Amis delivered a heartfelt but unsentimental eulogy, praising his late friend's good looks ("More handsome than a man has a right to be, he liked to say") and voice ("He had none of the poncey affectations that I can't seem to eradicate") but gently mocking his self-mythologizing tendencies. Noting that Hitchens' habit of referring to himself in the third person was in no way a sign of mental illness -- "Hitch was penetratingly sane; he knew who he was" -- Amis nevertheless observed that Hitchens, who hated to go unrecognized, once endured 15 painful minutes of not being stopped by admirers, causing him to conclude that everyone in the vicinity was hopelessly uncultured.
The novelist Martin Amis delivered a heartfelt but unsentimental eulogy, praising his late friend's good looks ("More handsome than a man has a right to be, he liked to say") and voice ("He had none of the poncey affectations that I can't seem to eradicate") but gently mocking his self-mythologizing tendencies. Noting that Hitchens' habit of referring to himself in the third person was in no way a sign of mental illness -- "Hitch was penetratingly sane; he knew who he was" -- Amis nevertheless observed that Hitchens, who hated to go unrecognized, once endured 15 painful minutes of not being stopped by admirers, causing him to conclude that everyone in the vicinity was hopelessly uncultured.
- 4/21/2012
- by Michael Hogan
- Huffington Post
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