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The Midwife's Magic Towel

2009-07-03T20:10:10Z

Brilliant article! Written with a razor-sharp pen! I would add another "deliciously ironic moment": Wouldn't it be a delight to witness a genderless death as well?

Vic Thurman

read Michael Bettencourt's column

Love&Tamales

2009-06-24T19:22:51Z

Here's to old hippies, old love and fresh tamales! Feldman's cartoons are sick, subtle and just funny, funny, funny. They give Scene4 just the right balance amidst the high-flying dance and opera and theatre. Carry on!

Mel Werner

read Elliot Feldman's comics

Existe Ballet no Brasil?

2009-06-24T19:16:33Z

Oi Andréa, realmente a realidade dos bailarinos brasileiros é muito cruel. A comparação que eu faço às pessoas que perguntam como é o trabalho para o bailarino clássico no Brasil é a seguinte: -Imaginem um médico que estuda 6 anos para se formar, e só há um hospital onde pode trabalhar! Além disso esse hospital tem 50 cargos, os quais só ficam disponíveis quando cada um desses médicos que estão contratados se aposente aos 65 anos!!!! Você já imaginou a quantidade de médicos que se formam por ano? E a quantidade que ficaria sem trabalho? Pois é exatamente assim que acontece com os bailarinos no Brasil. Por isso a gente deixa o nosso país, prá poder trabalhar naquilo a gente estudou, geralmente mais que esses 6 anos que um médico precisa prá ganhar o seu diploma. Também gostaria de comentar que há muitos brasileiros que saíram do Brasil, de todos estados e para muitos países. E que o Ballet não está só na Europa e nos EUA, há muitos brasileiros na Argentina, Chile, Panamá, México, Paraguay, Uruguay. Um abraço

Michele Bittencourt
Ballet da Provincia de Salta-AR

Manfredo Fest

2009-06-17T02:58:03Z

I always loved his music. Latin jazz as good as there ever was and the article caught that thing that made Manfredo's music so rich--that classical ride underneath. It's so sad that he passed when he did, but such a joy that his music is still alive and real. I hope somebody will do a commemorative album and pick the high points of his career. Maybe there's some film available. He was a joy to listen to and a joy to watch.

Bobby Friedkin

read Arthur Meiselman's article

"Duplicity" Where's the movie?

2009-06-17T02:55:33Z

Underwhelming? You're more than kind Mr. Moore. They should tie rusty cans to the tail of Tony Gilroy and put dunce caps on Clive Owen and Julia r-r-Roberts and drag them through Hollywood on a very sunny day. You should get a G. Globe or something golden for even bothering to sit through and review this waste of time and money. Is there a word like "nonwhelming?"

C. Gerrif

read Miles David Moore's review

Brave New Met

2009-06-14T03:47:23Z

I appreciate Ms. Stendhal's keen powers of observation in this well-written article. I have seen the performance of Lucia and am amazed at how well Ms. Stendhal describes the beauty of this production. I have not see the Rene Fleming performance, but I am sure now that I do not ever need to!

Larissa Chernin

read Renate Stendhal's article

Your Demands

2009-06-08T19:07:45Z

That's a hot list you got there Les. And very funny. But you know, those performers aren't very different from other folks. Look at the politicians and the CEOs. They do the same thing. I guess what happens when you get to certain place with power and money you get what you want and go a lttle crazy. Then it shows in your work and with musicians it shows in their music or what's left of it. The U.S. is the land of plenty but maybe not for long.

Jamie Perjtin

read Les Marcott's column

San Francisco Ballet

2009-06-06T19:26:30Z

San Francisco Ballet is now one of the best, if not the best, dance company in the country and your review shows why. Great review, so well written and full of many insights. The photos are divine. Thanks for all that.

Pimi Bell

read Catherine Conway Honig's review

Alenier's 'Seigfried'

2009-06-06T19:22:32Z

I'm frankly not a Wagner fan except for Tristan, which an early beau played and played for me when I was 15. However, because I have a Polish-Canadian friend in Toronto who is a Wagner nut and edits a Wagner mag, I stolidly began to read-- liked what Karren said very much and read the whole thing! I will also forward him the site.

Elisavietta Ritchie

read Karren Alenier's review

Brave New Met

2009-06-01T17:42:21Z

Yesterday I saw a performance of "Carmina Burana" and this morning I read your article. All wonderful fodder for my tiny brain that is trying to add a little more culture to its life (my next amble being an attendance this week at an outdoor opera simulcast). Brilliant article.

Irene Hendrick

read Renate Stendhal's article

Talk to the Dead

2009-05-21T13:45:29Z

Thank you Ned for that article -- right on! And thanks for mentioning a new theater in Rochester I hadn't heard about as yet. I will definitely be checking it out.

Joy Bennett

read Ned Bobkoff's article

Peter Grimes

2009-05-21T13:35:48Z

I too fell in love with Peter Grimes a long time basically because I've always worshipped Britten's music and this opera is so incandescent. Thanks for a beautiful look at a beautiful production.

Amy Sachs

read Karren Alenier's article

Frost/Nixon

2009-05-21T13:24:56Z

Excellent review! Michael Sheen is a better David Frost than David Frost! Though I think Frank Langella does a marvelous job and is a wonderful actor, he doesn't somehow quite get the physicality, the quirky way that Nixon moved as Anthony Hopkins did in his film. I missed that quality.

Terry Braitough

read Miles David Moore's review

Peter Grimes

2009-05-06T02:50:24Z

How Marvelous! Had no knowledge of this work, and it is an enthralling discovery.

Grace Cavalieri

read Karren Alenier's column

Talking to the Dead

2009-05-05T16:08:18Z

Ned Bobkoff has the rare quality of writing very much as he speaks. His is such a natural, easy-reading style, almost ingenuous. Ned's review of EDGE, the play about Sylvia Plath, makes me wish the production would come to Portland, Oregon where we have some good theater, but not enough experimental theater. Well done, Ned!

Gordon Magill

read Ned Bobkoff's article