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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
Past, present, future. History, memory, experience. The recasting of history through memory and experience. All of these slippery subjects are the matter of Bill T. Jones’s “Serenade/The Proposition,” an hourlong work that reaffirms this artist’s gift for creating powerful theater but reveals little of sustained choreographic interest.
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
Ask Paula Vogel how her life changed after winning the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and you don’t get the answer you expected.
“It has complicated my life,” she says. “I get about 200 e-mails a day asking for advice. I feel like I’m the Johnny Appleseed of new plays. I’m already working 18 hours a [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Gone With the Wind is scheduled for a Blu-ray release on Nov. 17, and next Tuesday brings Kino’s Blu-ray edition of Buster Keaton’s 1926 silent film, The General . If you must choose between the two, both set during the U.S. Civil War, heed the counsel of Orson Welles. When he introduced The General on [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
Not since Ron Maxwell’s “Gods and Generals” or Ken Burns’ PBS “The Civil War” series has there been such hubbub over a film featuring Fredericksburg.
The latest effort is a home-grown one, but has the polish of a professional production.
“Civil War Fredericksburg: Then & Now,” set for its public debut Thursday, appears to already be a [...]
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October 29, 2009 | Posted by javal
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas will receive its West Coast debut at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto beginning Dec. 2.
TheatreWorks artistic director Robert Kelley will stage the music-filled production. The play with music received its world premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, last holiday season. A Civil War [...]
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October 27, 2009 | Posted by javal
It was gray and cold last week at Stony Park Fashion Park, where the Bon Air Artists Association (BAAA) was hosting its 2009 Art Affair.
But in Susan Bock’s tent, one of about 100 set up by artists participating in BAAA’s 17th annual art show, the brightly hued prints that lined the walls provided a warm [...]
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October 15, 2009 | Posted by javal
In the foyer of the John Brown Museum hangs a large-lettered quote from Stephen Vincent Benét: “You can weigh John Brown’s body well enough/But how and in what balance weigh John Brown?” It’s one of the first things visitors see when they walk through the entrance doors. It’s also one of the last things they [...]
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October 15, 2009 | Posted by javal
Landscapes by the late Garnet Jex on view at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts depict scenes from Harpers Ferry, W.Va., as though the Civil War had just come and gone.
But the 22 paintings included in the exhibit were completed in the 1930s through 1950s, said the museum’s assistant curator, Jennifer E. Smith.
“What he [...]
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October 14, 2009 | Posted by javal
Justin Long is joining James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn in “The Conspirator,” the historical drama that Robert Redford is directing.
“Conspirator” tells the story of Confederate sympathizer Mary Surratt (Wright Penn), who was tried as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, and Col. Frederick Aiken (McAvoy), who reluctantly agreed to defend her before a military [...]
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October 14, 2009 | Posted by javal
When audiences hear haunting bugle calls in surround sound Saturday at E.J. Thomas Hall, the echoing figures will evoke both abolitionist John Brown’s favorite hymn and the foreshadowing of Civil War battle bugles.
That will be just one motif from composer Jesse Ayers’ The Passion of John Brown, which he created for the Akron Symphony Orchestra’s [...]
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