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“I Hate Hamlet”: Of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy!
Love Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Hate it? Never seen or read it? If you enjoy live theater, go see “I Hate Hamlet”, prepare to laugh and maybe reflect a little on life.
Read MoreSpektral Quartet’s Unique Take on the Shape of the String Quartet Concert
The Spektral Quartet plays and sounds like most other accomplished string quartets, but the way they structure their programs is quite unlike any other chamber ensemble
Read MorePianist Behzod Abduraimov’s Virtuoso Cyclone Strikes The Conrad
Pianist Behzod Abduraimov performed a virtuoso solo recital Sunday at The Conrad, the final offering of the La Jolla Music Society’s 2021—22 Piano Series.
Read MoreHausmann Takes Bartók’s Third Quartet on the Most Recent Haydn Voyage
Sunday at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, the Hausmann Quartet presented the second installment of its 2022 Haydn Voyages concert series.
Read MorePaola Prestini’s Opera ‘Aging Magician’ Finally Makes Its San Diego Debut
Although the COVID endemic cancelled San Diego Opera’s 2020 production of Paola Prestini’s contemporary chamber opera “Aging Magician,” the company will open ‘Aging Musician’ at Balboa Theatre on May 13 & 14, 2022.
Read MoreDance Rules in “Bob Fosse’s Dancin'”
Not entirely plotless, “Bob Fosse’s Dancin'” proceeds via light story lines created by Cilento and writer Kirsten Childs. They’re a mixed bag. A scene in a swanky night club—to “Sing, Sing, Sing,” played exuberantly by the 14-member orchestra—is a delight. Costumers Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung put the women in sparkly flapper dresses for Fosse’s signature Erté moves. Other sections, like “Big City Mime,” about a hick encountering the temptations of big bad New York, feel like jokes that go on and on, and they weren’t very funny to begin with.
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