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Bogart’s vision of animalized humans is brought to life onstage. Eglé and Adine, La Dispute’s two female characters, hold an impromptu beauty contest that leads to an opera sing-off and gymnastics competition before the two women degenerate into throwing balls at each other like two stags competing for a mate...
...CENERENTOLA. Cinderella makes an appearance in an unlikely spot—the Dunster House Dining Hall—in the Dunster Opera Society’s production of La Cenerentola. The retelling of the classic fairy tale features music by eighteenth-century Italian composer Luigi Rossini. With performances beginning at 8:30, glass slipper-wearing audience members can rest assured they’ll have plenty of time to return home before midnight, footwear and carriage still intact. Thursday, Feb. 13 through Saturday, Feb. 22 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets $8, $7 students, $6 Dunster House residents...
Here on our campus, Harvard-Radcliffe Television seems to do little more than sporadically issue e-mails about mysterious new programming efforts. At one point, there was a soap opera produced by Harvard kids, but that didn’t exactly electrify its target audience. In a place where students are too busy to veg out in front of the tube, student television stands only a small chance of survival...
...years old, but it already represented a career change for him. For years as a teenager he had been a concert pianist and--why not?--an accordionist. He says merely that his interests shifted. All the same, he found time last year to design and direct Messiaen's opera St. Francis of Assisi at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, and he is working on sets for a full cycle of Wagner's Ring at London's Covent Garden. But Libeskind rarely touches the piano anymore. "It's hard just to play for yourself," he says, "when you used to play...
...West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, he delegates heavily to his staff. And because his shows emphasize stories over character development, each actor is replaceable; L&O has run since 1990 without Friends-style salary increases or creative exhaustion. "Other shows eventually descend into a kind of soap opera," says Dragnet executive producer Walon Green. "Dick's shows are really cleverly disguised anthologies." As Dragnet star Ed O'Neill notes, this means Wolf's actors don't get Emmy-clip dramatic scenes. "That 'My kitten died' stuff," he says, "that's just not going to happen...