Many Canadian ensembles, from Club musical de Québec and Sinfonia Toronto to Vancouver Opera and Ensemble ArtChoral, are announcing their upcoming 2024-2025 seasons.
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One Flat Thing, Reproduced (Photo by Rahi Rezvani)
February Translated by François Archambault, the hit Ulster American is back and on tour. Maxime Denommée’s direction of this striking text is remarkable. La Licorne, Feb. 6-24 and on tour. www.theatrelalicorne.com Frédéric Bélanger returns to the world of Jules Vernes with Jules & Joséphine. Denise-Pelletier, Feb. 13-March 8. www.denise-pelletier.qc.ca Choreographer Rafael Palacios draws on the spirit of resilience of the Black communities of Colombia. Detrás del Sur: danzas para Manuel traces the African diaspora in the New World. He will also offer a dance workshop. Théâtre Maisonneuve, Feb. 21-24 and a workshop on Feb. 17. www.dansedanse.ca Performer-choreographer Angélica Liddell blends…
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Jean-Marc et Marie-Joanne (Photo by Guillaume Boucher)
In this age of algorithms and disinformation, how can we fight violence against women? Projet Polytechnique addresses the issue.
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Philippe Cyr, the new artistic director of Théâtre Prospero, maintains his focus on transgression. And the concept certainly works for him.
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Gee, officier Krupke, chanté par les Jets, distribution originale à Broadway, circa 1957 (Photo de Wikicommons)
Of all Leonard Bernstein’s compositions—from Candide to Mass to On The Town—West Side Story looms large above the rest.
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2023 Glimmerglass Festival production of Candide: (L to R) Bradley Dean, Jonathan Pierce Rhodes, Brian Vu, Katrina Gulka, and Meredith Arwady with members of the Ensemble. Photo credit: Evan Zimmerman/The Glimmerglass Festival.
REVIEW: of the Glimmerglass 2023 Season, including: Roméo et Juliette, the 1867 opera composed by Charles Gounod, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré adapting Shakespeare; viewed August 4, 2023; Candide, with a musical score by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by an assortment of heavy-hitters; viewed August 5, 2023; and Rinaldo, composed by George Frideric Handel, with a libretto by Giacomo Rossi; viewed August 6, 2023. Passing the Baton… The Glimmerglass Festival, with the arcadian charm of its lakeside setting and the surrounding splendor of its central New York “Leatherstocking Region” setting – not to mention…
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Montreal September Persephone Productions presents Pool (No Water), by Mark Ravenhill. What does it mean to make art and what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of success? Sept. 3-15. www.segalcentre.org Presented in Cherokee, Muscogee and English, Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ brings together components and concerns that inform an interdisciplinary and counter-colonial approach to performance. Sept. 12-14. www.m-a-i.qc.ca In Just For Us, Alex Edelman decides to covertly attend a meeting of White Nationalists and comes face to face with the people behind the keyboards. A hair-raising encounter and hilarious anecdotes. Sept. 17. www.segalcentre.org In Cherry Docs, a Jewish…
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Samora la Perdida and Christine Carmela; photo: Julieta Cervantes
REVIEW: Of Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, at New York City’s Soho Rep, 45 Walker Street; running through Sunday, June 19 (viewed here June 8). “The Great Wheel of Puerto Rican confusion spins on!” So declaims one of the characters in playwright Mara Vélez Meléndez’s capaciously titled new theater piece, Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, now playing at the Soho Rep. It’s a tag line that aptly summarizes the dizzying action and ambitious collision of themes that Meléndez sets in motion for this provocative hour-and-three-quarters of theatrical razzle…
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Nathan Granner and members of The Young People's Chorus of New York City in Gordon Getty's opera "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
REVIEW: of the New York premiere of a new opera by Gordon Getty, “reimagined for film” – Goodbye, Mr. Chips, screened at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, March 2, 2022, at 7:00 p.m., sponsored jointly by Festival Napa Valley and NYCO (New York City Opera). The idea for an opera version of James’ Hilton’s 1934 novel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, had been germinating in composer Gordon Getty’s mind for decades – ever since, as a young man, he saw a re-release of the celebrated 1939 film adaptation starring Robert Donat (in an Academy Award-winning performance as the eponymous character) and the…
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The Cast of THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, Photo by Carol Rosegg
New York City’s Irish Repertory Theatre this week concludes the run of its 2021-22 holiday production – a revival of artistic director Charlotte Moore’s 2002 musical adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s The Streets of New York – with a final performance on Sunday, January 30, at 3 p.m. The production is a thoroughgoing success – roistering, lyrical, stylish, and bursting with vitality. Dublin-born Dion Boucicault was one of the most successful and prolific actor-manager-dramatists of the 19th Century, and in 1857 he premiered one of his most spectacularly successful dramas, The Street of New York (originally titled The Poor of New…
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