Spectacle? It’s long been the grand opera’s calling card. But never quite like this. Lyric Opera’s world premiere production of Proximity—closer to Immersive Van Gogh or Art on the Mart than to Aida—opened at the opera house last week. Directed and “mixed” by Yuval Sharon (creator of the parking garage Wagner, Twilight: Gods, which he […]
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 retains its power
It’s been 30 years since four LA cops pulled Rodney King from his truck and savagely beat him while he lay prone on the street. It’s been 29 years since riots burned across LA after all four police officers were acquitted on charges related to the beating. And it’s been 27 years since Anna Deveare […]
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Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and ten more new stage shows
A monstrous revival and a collaboration between Writers Theatre and Second City are among this week’s theater and performance best bets.
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From Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 to Michael Brown and Eric Garner
In telling the story of Rodney King, Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 makes it clear how desperately little has changed.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 1/21: Winter Bike to Work Day, Conversation on Grace, and Ishmael Beah
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, January 21
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Anna Deavere Smith has a Conversation on Grace
Anna Deavere Smith looks at “the unbidden in life” in Conversation on Grace.