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When Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was first proposed, in the mid-1950s, it was imagined as a sort of island of culture in the midst of Manhattan - a symphony hall, an opera house, a theater and a stage for ballet, all standing back a bit in their travertine glory from a neighborhood on the Upper West Side that still had some very rough edges...
When two figures as imposing as Igor Stravinsky and W.H. Auden collaborate to produce a work of art, the result is bound to mesmerize. Yet “The Rake’s Progress,” a modern opera first performed in Venice in 1951, is seldom included in the repertoire of major companies due to the common but misguided perception that English opera is inferior to its Italian or German counterpart. Over the past two weekends, the Dunster House Opera sought to correct this under-appreciation of Stravinksy’s work. Though the undertaking was an ambitious...
TIME: I think of your modus operandi as taking on a genre and then remaking it in your own image. With Buffy it was vampires, with Firefly, space opera. But Dollhouse is different. It's its own genre. Unless there's a genre out there I don't know about...
...present. Equally enticing are Smith’s descriptions of the implausible, written in such an honest and frank manner that one begins to believe that happening upon a curly-haired baby spewing obscenities or a fourteen year-old version of yourself are as routine as a couple discussing opera or a phone call to a sick friend. In “Writ,” Smith’s protagonist confronts her childhood self at the dinner table, and struggles with the question of whether or not to divulge the details of her future. “I want...
...that during the ceremony at London's Royal Opera House, Slumdog Millionaire picked up seven awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Danny Boyle, Winslet won the Leading Actress award for her role in The Reader, and the Original Screenplay prize went to the Irish hitman comedy In Bruges. Echoing the sentiments of their American brethren, the British Academy voters also gave Leading Actor kudos to comeback king Mickey Rourke for his role in The Wrestler (his expletive-sprinkled acceptance speech getting some of the night's biggest laughs), honored the late Heath Ledger's turn as The Joker...