New Star Theatre Chief Debuts With Broadway Revue
- May
- 11
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“A Salute to Broadway” is an event with multiple purposes. First of all, it is a concert fundraiser for the Star Theater Co. Second, it’s a retrospective of last season’s musicals. Third, it’s a preview of musicals planned for the next season.
But the fourth purpose may be the most critical one of all —- it [...]
Relax at a multimedia event ‘Fire Island’
- April
- 20
There are 17 live actors and dozens more on film, 300 plates broken in anger, several wandering deer and plenty of emotion in Chuck Mee’s multimedia event ” Fire Island,” but the principal character is the fragile barrier reef itself.
The mix of video and theater that opens today at the 3-Legged Dog Art %26amp; Technology [...]
NZ film selected for New York festival
- April
- 6
Cargo, written and directed by New Zealander Leo Woodhead, will screen at the seventh annual Tribeca Film Festival next month.
New Zealand Film Commission short film manager Juliette Veber said the Tribeca festival was becoming one of the most important film events in the United States.
Tribeca Film Festival artistic director Peter Scarlet said the 79 films [...]
Kiwi child trafficking film to play NY festival
- March
- 27
Cargo, written and directed by New Zealander Leo Woodhead, will screen at the seventh annual Tribeca Film Festival next month.
New Zealand Film Commission short film manager Juliette Veber said the Tribeca festival was becoming one of the most important film events in the United States.
Tribeca Film Festival artistic director Peter Scarlet said the 79 films [...]
The Live Theater Scene in Austin
- March
- 18
With the different varieties and styles of live theaters in Austin, a night at the theater could be wild and rambunctious, or a beautiful and classy affair. On the east side of town, one can find small, arty theaters such as the Salvage Vanguard, while downtown patrons can take in the ballet, or a family-friendly [...]
Best Bets this week
- March
- 6
Visual arts
Monday. Textile art.Rebecca Bluestone’s sumptuous abstract weavings can be found in such major museums as the Art Institute of Chicago and have gained her national attention. The Lakewood Cultural Center, 480 S. Allison Parkway, will present a solo exhibition of her works Monday through May 23. An opening reception is set for 5 to [...]
`Rent Closes Remnants of Era Remain
- February
- 26
“It was amazing to be living in the world you’re playing on stage,” says Anthony Rapp, an original cast member who lived in the East Village for many years and played the part of Mark, a budding filmmaker shooting a movie about his friends.”Rent” was an instant sensation when it opened, dubbed an “exhilarating, landmark [...]
Brief Encounter: ‘I want people to laugh and cry. That’s our job’
- February
- 8
It’s Brief Encounter, but not as we know it. In Kneehigh Theatre’s stage version, the tragic, unconsummated love affair between Dr Alec Harvey and Laura Jesson is conducted more or less as it was in David Lean’s 1945 screen classic, scripted by No%26euml;l Coward, but between their clipped, ecstatic-tormented meetings, all kinds of mischief [...]
Best Bets this week
- February
- 8
Visual Arts
Through the week.Drawings. The always-interesting Denver artist Rian Kerrane combines what she calls “shards of intimate detritus” in a group of 103 drawings titled, “The Periodic Table of Elements.” The installation remains on view through Feb. 24 at the Edge Gallery, 3658 Navajo St. Hours are 7 to 10 p.m. Fridays and 1 to [...]
BYU dance troupe honors Mormon Battalion women
- January
- 31
PROVO %26#151; Dance, music and film will join together to portray compelling stories from the journals of the women of the Mormon Battalion in the Brigham Young University Dancers’ Company performance “Dance in Concert: Onward, Alone.”
The story of the Mormon Battalion soldiers %26#151; who in [...]
