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Sundance Infographic 2016: Ample Distribution, Paltry Deals, and the Cost of Piracy
For the myriad filmmakers descending on Park City this week we have good news and bad.
Day: January 20, 2016
SUNDANCING
I am heading to Park City, Utah, for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and the sense of anticipation is palpable. The eleven days and nights that I will spend watching films at the festival will be among the most inspiring, illuminating, and exhausting of my year. It was a stroke of genius really, Robert Redford …
Sarah Thursday: Three Poems
Sarah Thursday calls Long Beach, California, her home, where she advocates for local poets and poetry events. She runs a Long Beach-focused poetry website called CadenceCollective.net, co-hosts a monthly reading with one of her poetry heroes, G. Murray Thomas, and just started Sadie Girl Press as a way to help publish local and emerging poets. Her …
Interview: Rotterdam's Dynamic Duo of Telmo & Miel
Working together seamlessly, Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann (known collaboratively as Telmo & Miel) both enjoy working in realistic styles, with loads of contrast in subjects. Technique and style have a high priority in their pieces, and true craftsmanship is what they want to produce. They work separately on ideas for murals and come together with …
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Noises Off Returns to Broadway with a Bang
Michael Frayn’s Noises Off has turned into a reliable laugh machine. The British backstage farce premiered in London in 1982 and then transferred to a long run on Broadway the following year. A 2001 revival starring Patti LuPone also had a respectable stand. Now Noises is back for yet another New York engagement, this time …
Marjorie Prime Delicately Examines Memory and Family
The elusiveness of memory is the theme of Jordan Harrison’s delicate and wonderful short play Marjorie Prime at Playwrights Horizons, presented at the Mark Taper Forum in 2014. Running at a precise 80 minutes, this sensitive, Pulitzer Prize nominee explores the fragility of human connections and the slow encroachment of technology on love and family. …
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Connect to Axis Connect!
Where can young emerging professional dancers go to get immersive experience from working choreographers and dance makers? What are their career choices in deciding between, say, Los Angeles and New York? How should they navigate between the commercial and concert worlds, and must they make a choice of one path over the other at all? …
Santa Cecilia Orchestra at the Wallis
I have been a frequent visitor and enthusiastic admirer of the Annenberg Space for Photography since it opened in Century City in March 2009, but I had not yet experienced the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts that opened in Beverly Hills in October 2013, in the remodeled Historic 1934 Post Office, with the addition of …
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
The following is an excerpt from Lori Jakiela’s Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe. *** My grandfather was an orphan like me. His mother delivered him to an orphanage one day when he was nine or 10. She packed a small suitcase — clothes, a child’s Bible. She said she couldn’t afford to …