Roald Dahl wrote books for the children of his time and it is a wonder that many of his creations have remained as popular and well-loved as they have decades after his death. Although James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, and The Twits can all trace thematic influence back to Dahl's involvement in World War II, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory seems to be the most heavily-informed by an unquestioning devotion to western industrialization and hope for the germinating seeds of our present-day capitalism. The 1971 movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is indicative of its time not only in its psychedelic colors and film effects but in its Vietnam-Conflict-era praise of Americanized consumerism. While Tim Burton's 2005 film adaptation reclaimed the title of the 1964 book and attempted to be a more faithful translation, its darkness and sterile settings have not garnered the cultural embrace of its predecessor, mainly because (I believe) of the public's common, shifting relationship with and disdain for industrialization and capitalism.
Musco Center for the Arts will present An Evening with John Leguizamo on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 7:30pm. The Emmy and Tony Award-winning Leguizamo, a prominent actor-writer-director in film, television, and theatre, shares a new evening of insight based on lessons he's learned, characters he's encountered, and struggles he's had against racism and poverty.
Nationally syndicated radio program, The Streets of Rock N Roll, hosted by iconic Metal singer Ron Keel, will feature 5 tracks from the Mike Mostert and The GoGo Tuner Family record over the course of a month. Launching this week, the show is currently spinning 'Can't Find My Way (feat. In Theory)' to its nearly 800,000 listeners over 8 FM stations and is set to feature 'Life's A Bitch (feat. Bigg Mouth),' 'She's Gone (feat. In Theory),' 'Not Giving Up (feat. Morgan Myles)' and 'GoGo Shred' in the coming weeks.
Broadway star Kelli O'Hara will return to London to play her debut solo concert engagement at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 10 November. The Tony Award-winning and Emmy and Grammy-nominated actress returns to the capital following her star turn in the smash-hit run of The King and I at The London Palladium
San Francisco Opera presents Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, November 15–December 7. Last seen on the War Memorial Opera House stage nearly two decades ago, the popular fairy-tale opera returns in an “enchanting” (The Times, UK) new co-production with London's Royal Opera by director and production designer Antony McDonald. Humperdinck's sweeping score will be conducted by Christopher Franklin and sung in English translation by a cast including mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke as Hansel, Heidi Stober as Gretel and Robert Brubaker as the Witch.
La exposición Anita Brenner. Luz de la Modernidad se exhibirá del 30 de octubre al 23 de febrero de 2020 en el Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), integrada por más de 400 obras, entre fotografía, pintura, gráfica, documentos, materiales de trabajo y objetos artísticos procedentes, en su mayoría, de la colección de esta impulsora del arte mexicano de principios del siglo XX y que en conjunto conforman una visión del país arraigada en una rica herencia cultural inmersa en una renovación cosmopolita.
Park Square Theatre rings in the winter holidays with its first ever production of a Jane Austen novel with the regional premiere of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Nov 15 a?" Dec 22, 2019) adapted from the classic by Kate Hamill (SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, LITTLE WOMEN) and directed by Lisa Channer in her Park Square debut. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure.
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Gaetano Donizetti wrote three bel canto operas about three extraordinary women a?" passionate Anne Boleyn, proud Mary Stuart, and mighty Queen Elizabeth I. Each of these brilliant operas offers a stupendous role for a true singing actress with incredible technique, charisma, and dramatic power.
The 51st Annual Jeff Awards Ceremony took place on October 21, 2019, during a spirited evening at Drury Lane Oakbrook. 'Frankenstein,' produced by Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, took home five awards, including Best Production a?' Play in the Midsize category. Court Theatre also took home five awards, including the coveted Ensemble Award for 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf' and four awards for a?oePhotograph 51.a?? Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of 'Downstate' received the Jeff Award for Best Production - Play in the Large category. The award for Best Production - Musical in the Large category went to 'Six' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and the award for Best Production - Musical in the Midsize category went to 'Caroline, or Change,' produced by Firebrand Theatre in partnership with TimeLine Theatre Company.
Racism and homophobia reign in 1950s Houston, the setting of Ricardo Pérez González's world premiere of On the Grounds of Belonging. The play begins as white drag queen Thomas Aston (Jeremiah Clapp) from whites only gay bar, The Red Room, hides from a raid at The Gold Room, a blacks only gay bar. Thomas falls head over his high heels for Russell Montgomery (Calvin Leon Smith), a quiet, erudite journalist who has a not too distant past with fellow patron Henry Stanfield (Blake Anthony Morris). But against the advice of bar manager Hugh Williams (Thomas Silcott), Thomas and Rusty begin a serious love affair. This is not a good time or place to be an interracial gay couple, but their biggest threat is Henry, who bashes Thomas in the head out of jealousy and hurt. Mooney Fitzpatrick (Craig Bockhorn), the gay and bigoted owner of the two gay bars, tells Russell that Thomas, whom he loved like a son, died of his wounds. He threatens to lynch the person who killed him. Sounds a bit like Romeo and Juliet, but neither character dies at the end. They are just separated seemingly forever. Rounding out this excellent ensemble is Tanya Starr (Tracey Conyer Lee), a torch singer at The Gold Room, who helps Henry escape. All the cast members are genuine in their roles, playing them without stereotypes. You can't help but feel their loneliness. Bockhorn is chilling as a man who, with his partner, took in a very young orphaned Thomas, yet is vindictive enough to lynch someone. Lee is a talented singer as well as actress.
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La voz de la poeta costarricense, nacionalizada guatemalteca y mexicana, Eunice Odio (1919-1974), se escuchó a través de un audio que grabó en 1961 en la Ciudad de México, con la lectura de un fragmento del poema El tránsito de fuego. El material se presentó en el marco del homenaje con el que se recordó a la poeta en el centenario de su nacimiento.
Para celebrar al Palacio de Bellas Artes en su 85 aniversario, Omara Portuondo y Regina Orozco ofrecieron el concierto Pedazos del corazón que hermanó a México y Cuba por medio de canciones clásicas de Agustín Lara, Álvaro Carrillo, Guillermina Aramburo e Isolina Carrillo, la noche del miércoles 16 de octubre en el marco del 85 aniversario del recinto y del 47 Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC).
The Annenberg Center presents Belgium-based early music ensemble Vox Luminis, Friday, November 1, at 7:30 PM, at St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village at 3916 Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. One of the foremost vocal ensembles specializing in performances of Renaissance and Baroque music, and led by Artistic Director Lionel Meunier, the award-winning Vox Luminis makes its Annenberg Center debut in a celebration of the Italian Baroque, featuring works by Claudio Monteverdi and Domenico Scarlatti, including the latter's Stabat Mater, the signature work that inspired the group's founding. Visit AnnenbergCenter.org for ticket information.
El cielo trepanado. Sobre Hospital Británico, de Héctor Viel Temperley, es el título de la obra por la cual Adán Medellín recibió el diploma del Premio Bellas Artes de Ensayo Literario José Revueltas 2019, cuya ceremonia se realizó en el Museo de Arte Moderno de la Casa de la Cultura Ernestina Gamboa en Gómez Palacio, Durango, en el marco del Festival Cultural Revueltas 2019.
On Tuesday evening November 12 vocalists Celia Castro, Ilya Martinez, Mario Arevalo and Rafael Lebron will join forces with pianist Max Lifchitz for an intimate celebration of the Art Song as practiced in the Caribbean and Latin America during the last 100 years.
Tony Award winner, Roger Bart, will star as 'Dr Emmett Brown' in the world premiere of BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical, which will open at the Manchester Opera House on 20 February 2020 for a strictly limited 12-week season, finishing on 17 May, prior to transferring to the West End. This comes on the day Christopher Lloyd, the original 'Dr Emmett Brown' in the Back to the Future film trilogy comes to Manchester to pass on the keys to the DeLorean Time Machine to Roger.
En el centenario del natalicio de la poeta costarricense Eunice Odio (San José de Costa Rica, 1919- Ciudad de México, 1974), el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Literatura, le dedicará un homenaje que contempla dos actividades: Cien años de Eunice Odio, en la que diversos autores abordarán la trascendencia de su obra literaria acompañada de una lectura musicalizada, y la presentación de la compilación poética, Territorio de voces y fuego, que reúne la obra de 16 escritores.
