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Recent Reviews
Category Archives: Art & Theater
Ionesco, Kurzweil, art and humanity
Friday, April 10, 2009
2009
A few weeks ago I attended previews for Ionesco’s ‘Exit the King’ with Geoffrey Rush (and Lauren Ambrose, Susan Sarandon) in NYC. It was a good interpretation, of the play if you like Ionesco with shtick. I tend to avoid the exorbitant price star of driven Broadway shows as star vehicles, but Jeffrey Rush is [...]
La Didone – the play of the year!
Monday, April 6, 2009
The Wooster Group is a real gift to the theater. I first saw them in 1983 and they have been slaying me ever since. I saw La Didone in previews and Bill Brantley’s review goes a long way towards helping to clarify and making sense of the experience. These performances are not gimmicks, not “post-modern”, [...]
Buddy Rich
Friday, January 2, 2009
A great drummer – a fun clip – I remember watching this a kid and wanting to play like Buddy. Of course few do.
He is the first of many influences, along with Alan Dawson, Jim Chapin (and his Moeller technique), Joe Morello, Dino Dinelli, Richie Hayward, and probably Jeff Porcaro. I tell my students, it [...]
Harold Pinter RIP
Saturday, December 27, 2008
He was one of the great influences for me in appreciating what live theater was capable of, and in the way I could cope with the world going increasingly mad. His work, when well done, was electric on stage. Both small companies and major productions could make his work either amazing, or confusing. When he [...]
the passing of Robert Rauschenberg
Monday, March 10, 2008
A great life! Citing John Cage, he has a great quote:
“John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to [...]