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How Does a Community Fund the Arts?
by Kathy Bisbee |
| I recently spent four days in Boston at the NAMAC conference (National Association for Media Arts & Culture) learning about many media, youth, and performing arts projects around the country. One of the most interesting discussions focused on how community arts organizations can shape and define the importance of arts in our ...read more. |
Onstage
A monthly guide to theatre performances and auditions |
THEATRE NOTES
A Fine Oliver! on a Balmy Evening
by Paul Myrvold |
| [September 2009] I had no need of the leather jacket, Basque beret and blankets that we schlepped into the Forest Theatre expecting the usual fog chilled evening. The customary roaring fires house left and right remained unlit. The balmy evening prepared a receptive audience for ...read more. |
THEATRE NOTES
“A Thoroughly Engaging” Tinyard Hill
at TheatreWorks
by Paul Myrvold |
| [August 2009] Tinyard Hill, a new musical by Tommy Newman and Mark Allen, touches the heart with laughter and heartfelt emotion in a first class world premiere production mounted by TheatreWorks as part of their New Works Festival ‘09. Set in rural Georgia in the summer of ...read more. |
THEATRE NOTES
Edward Albee Updates a Classic
by Paul Myrvold |
| [July 2009] It’s an interesting idea of Edward Albee, to revisit his seminal one act play The Zoo Story and flesh it out with a new opening act he calls Homelife. The Zoo Story, written in 1958 and first produced in the United States in 1960, depicts a Central Park encounter between ...read more. |
THEATRE NOTES
May Shows Reviewed and on into June
by Paul Myrvold |
| [June 2009] What surprised me a little in PacRep’s superb production of Edward Albee’s now classic play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, was how entertaining a play it is. Casting my thoughts back across decades, I am not sure if I have ever seen the work onstage. Saw the ...read more. |
THEATRE NOTES
Man of La Mancha & Kite Runner Reviews
by Merrie West |
| [May 2009] The first time I saw Man of La Mancha I fell in love with the music but was a bit confused by the plot. A play within a play, one has to realize that the story of Don Quixote lives in the mind of author, actor, and tax-collector Miguel de Cervantes who has been thrown...read more. |
THEATRE NOTES
SVCT Scores With a Classic
by Paul Myrvold |
| [April 2009] It is always a satisfying delight when a community theatre takes on a topnotch script and gets it just right as South Valley Civic Theatre has done with the Kaufman and Hart comedy You Can’t Take It with You. Good to excellent casting (including a little ...read more. |
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2009-2010
Dining Guide
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