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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Classical and opera | | The hunters in Albert Lortzing's The Poacher. advertisement‘The Poacher’ and ‘Samson’ @ Buxton Festival Robert Beale 14/ 7/2008THE 30th, the biggest and the best, they’re saying, as this year Buxton Festival expands to three full programmes of in-house opera productions, besides its selection of visiting operas, concerts, recitals and other goodies.But is biggest automatically...
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Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Theatre and dance reviews | | The hunters in Albert Lortzing's The Poacher. advertisement‘The Poacher’ and ‘Samson’ @ Buxton Festival Robert Beale 14/ 7/2008THE 30th, the biggest and the best, they’re saying, as this year Buxton Festival expands to three full programmes of in-house opera productions, besides its selection of visiting operas, concerts, recitals and other goodies.But is biggest automatically...
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Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Theatre and dance reviews| Seamus Cullen and Louise Dearman in EvitaEvita @ Opera HouseNatalie Anglesey 25/ 6/2008ACCORDING to a theatre spokesperson, Evita was last seen in Manchester in 1984 when he paid £2.50 for standing room only.Times have changed and standing room has disappeared.But you can still see this award-winning musical for as little as £8.50 and those who'd paid £32 for the posh seats...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Naxos 8.570149, £5.99Henry Purcell was born just in time for the Restoration, and by the time he was a practising theatre composer, Shakespeare's open-air, male-only dramatics had long since been replaced by small, stuffy theatres featuring real women.This recording focuses on music for three plays, written in the form of overtures, incidental music and songs. Purcel changes his style to suit each...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
The world premiere of Tsunami by Dominic Muldowney (the second recipient of the Elgar Bursary for mature composers) registered barely a ripple. Here was a highly experienced theatre composer working with a significant poet, James Fenton, and a charismatic actor-singer, Philip Quast. But Tsunami, played by the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis, patronised the popular styles to which it...
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Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Courtesy of the publisher, today we have a special swag giveaway, the new book from Joel Derfner, Swish: My Quest To Become The Gayest Person Ever , which goes on sale this Tuesday. Joel Derfner is gayer than you . Don't feel too bad about it, though, because he has made being gayer than you his life’s work. At summer day camp, when he was six, Derfner tried to sign up for needlepoint and flower arranging,...
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PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
3S Theatre Collective Will Celebrate Songs of Andrew Lippa May 12Andrew LippaWelcome to the World is the title of an upcoming concert celebrating the music and lyrics of theatre composer Andrew Lippa.Presented by the new theatre company 3S Theatre Collective, the May 12 concert will be held at Off-Broadway's Players Theatre. Concertgoers can expect expect to hear tunes from Lippa's The Wild Party,...
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Vh1 Blog (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
After a season of intentionally provoking our contestants into the most deliciously awkward, humiliating and shameful of situations, the producers of Idol have clearly lost all sense of restraint. On last night's American Idol, the songs of musical theater composer Andrew Llloyd Webber served as the “music of the night.” Throughout the season, anecdotes and [...]
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The TV addict (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
By: The THEATRE Addict AMERICAN IDOL went all Broadway last night dedicating the evening to the world's most successful musical theatre composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber [ALW]. What an interesting night it was as the contestants had to sing a song out of the Lloyd Webber song book. ALW has been the best IDOL coach [...]
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PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Mitchell Will Direct Musical of Once in a Lifetime; Reading to Feature Borle, Morrison and KritzerSouth Pacific's Matthew Morrison will be part of a reading of the new musical Going Hollywood, which will be directed by Jerry Mitchell.photo by Aubrey ReubenTony Award-winning lyricist David Zippel will get the chance to show that Going Hollywood, the musical he wrote more than 20 years ago with collaborators...
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PlayBill (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Piazza's Clark and Lazar Host March 10 New Voices ConcertBy 10 Mar 2008 Victoria Clarkphoto by Susan ShacterTony Award winner Victoria Clark and Aaron Lazar, who were both part of the Broadway production of The Light in the Piazza, host the March 10 Monday Nights, New Voices concert. The 7 PM concert will spotlight the talents of Kimberly Chesser, Marisa Dargahi, Leslie Henstock, Addi McDaniel and...
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Murderati (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
By Louise Ure I had a chance to visit my husband's family on a recent trip to Seattle. Always a dicey proposition. “Psst,” someone hissed as I passed the front bedroom. A hand snaked out the scant two inches of...
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PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Last Acts composer Jake Heggie writes about the art of collaboration. His new work premieres at Houston Grand Opera February 29.
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PlayBill (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Piazza's Clark and Lazar to Host March 10 New Voices ConcertBy 20 Feb 2008 Victoria Clarkphoto by Susan ShacterTony Award winner Victoria Clark and Aaron Lazar, who were both part of the Broadway production of The Light in the Piazza, will host the March 10 Monday Nights, New Voices concert. The 7 PM concert will spotlight the talents of Kimberly Chesser, Marisa Dargahi, Leslie Henstock, Addi McDaniel...
