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...observer rather than critic, Rushdie performs brilliantly, transforming a spot on a map into a sweating, struggling panorama of life. He shows us a Nicaragua whose leaders use poetry as a shield against death, in which "liberation" theology challanges traditional Vatican primacy and Bruce Springsteen blares above the cries of sunbronzed street vendors...
...would be hard to think of a more overdue or, in some ways, a more welcome subject for an exhibition than "British Art in the 20th Century," the panorama of 310 works by some 70 artists that is now in its last month (through April 5) at the Royal Academy in London. It will then be in Stuttgart from May 8 to June 9. This is the second in a series of surveys that, under the guiding hand of the academy's exhibitions secretary Norman Rosenthal, are designed to look back on and rethink the history of modern art country...
London' s Royal Academy puts on display a panorama of 310 works surveying the varied glories of 20th century British modernism...
...Designer David Hersey, who mounted Nicholas Nickleby, plus Composer Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Richard Stilgoe, who had joined the former trio to devise Cats. In reconceiving the show for Broadway, the creators had some smart ideas: instead of a gloomy, abandoned train siding, the gaudy set now represents a panorama of the U.S., dotted with highlights a child might recognize, from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge; the recorded narration too is now by a child: Braden Danner, who appears live in the Main Stem's other big new musical, Les Miserables. Along with these bright ideas...
...retold onstage and in at least 14 films. At heart, the novel's conflict is metaphysical: Valjean believes in the forgiving God of the New Testament, Javert in the retributive God of the Old Testament. The story resounds with images of Christian redemption. Yet it is by turns a panorama of the underclass, a Gothic romance about love at first sight threatened by family secrets, a psychological study and a radical tract. The novel's scale and complexity seemingly defy adaptation to a musical, especially one that in the fashion of opera, sets every word to song. The stage version...