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Grey Gardens is a strangely beautiful musical about people who are both strangely beautiful and more than eccentric. In a way, it’s the perfect musical for ion Theatre, which is presenting its Southern California premiere through April 20.
A classic struggle of church and state: claiming allegiance to Divine authority, Roman Catholic bishops adamantly oppose the will of the head of state. That scenario may bring to mind the recent conflict between President Obama and the Roman Catholic hierarchy over certain aspects of Obamacare. It also describes the central theme of Italian composer Idlebrando Pizzetti’s Murder in the Cathedral, San Diego Opera’s latest production of the 2013 season, which opened Saturday (March 30) at Civic Theatre. Based on a crucial event in English medieval history, the opera depicts the assassination of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, by…
Being alone while lost in a forest or feeling tiny in a vast space is a natural cause for melancholic apprehension. Not being in control, not being the master of the situation, being at the mercy of nature―or worse, being at the mercy of God himself―falls into the artistic tradition called the “Romantic Sublime.” The master artist from this tradition is early 19th-century German painter Caspar David Friedrich. San Francisco artist James Chronister offers viewers black and white paintings with the same feeling of sublime melancholic isolation in an exhibition now on view at the Lux Art Institute in Encinitas. All…
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