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A Theatre Holiday, Part 2 – London

By Bill Eadie | June 27, 2013 |

The best thing about London theatre is that there is so much of it. There is commercial theatre, clustered in the West End around Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, there are several institutional theatre companies, most notably the National Theatre, which operates from expansive facilities on the south bank of the Thames, right at the Waterloo Bridge. And, there are theatre companies doing cutting edge work, often in venues that are off the beaten track…

An Old Globe Dream as Fresh as All Outdoors

By Welton Jones | June 26, 2013 |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is right back where it belongs – outdoors in a park – and Ian Talbot’s excellent production, which will be around through September, makes the masterpiece glow…

Racism, Murder, and Other Forms of Southern Hospitality

By Ken Herman | June 25, 2013 |

Revisiting the civil rights struggles of the 1960s in a small Southern town is ion theatre company’s latest adventure: “John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night,” by Matt Pelfrey. This riveting stage drama set in Argo, Alabama, in 1965, offers a murder mystery whose racial strife has been dramatized on both the silver screen and the tube.

Mozart and Shostakovich Mark Atherton’s Mainly Mozart Farewell

By Ken Herman | June 24, 2013 |

David Atherton’s farewell concert as Music Director of the Mainly Mozart Festival Saturday offered high spirits, pristine music making, and a touch of valedictory symbolism. At age 69 the intrepid British conductor is stepping down from his festival post, at the top of his form, to give someone else a chance to interpret this repertory. The program included Mozart’s First Symphony in E-flat Major, K. 16, his Symphony No. 41 in C Major (“Jupiter”), K. 551, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto with Adam Neiman.

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