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Behind the magic of The Magic Flute at The Puppet Co

February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Three shadowy figures stand on a scaffold high above the stage, looking down on a tangle of eight foot strings and contorting themselves in and around each other to bring inanimate blocks of wood and celastic creatures, most no larger than three feet in height,  to life. [Read more...]

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Les Justes

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If you think furs, Fabergé eggs, ballet when you think about 20th century Russia, Les Justes is here to remind you that for every lithographed Russian noblewoman traipsing around St. Petersburg in the latest Parisian fashions, there were hundreds of thousands of unseen serfs living on moss and wild roots in the countryside. For most Russians, life was spent in slums, sustenance farms, and purgatory prisons.  [Read more...]

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Yellowman

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Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman is a story of black-on-black bigotry, parental abuse, internalized self-loathing, and alcoholism.  In other words, just another fun night at the theatre. [Read more...]

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Arena Stage announces its 2012-2013 season

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Mary Zimmerman, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient whose adaptations of Candide and The Arabian Nights played here to critical acclaim and box-office success, will bring Metamorphoses, her interpretation of the myths of Ovid, to Arena Stage next February as part of the company’s eight-production 2012-2013 season, Arena announced yesterday. [Read more...]

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Comic Opera Guild catalog of early musical theatre

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Most dedicated theater music fans are well aware that there was a momentous shift in the evolution of what we now think of as a “musical” in 1915 when Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton, in the cogent description of Steve Suskin, “concentrated on making comedy and song spring directly from situation and character” with their first hit in the Princess Theatre, Very Good Eddie. [Read more...]

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