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The Brothers Size, Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s first professional play, announces Mr. McCraney as a creative and complex thinker who challenges audiences with simple stories on classic themes whose surface glosses a wealth of meaning underneath. The Old Globe’s production leaves its audiences breathless, unsettled, and aching for more.
An especially animated and warm crowd poured out of Copley Symphony Hall Tuesday. Several dashed into the cool night air without a coat. Many rubbed their ears. A nimble silver-haired woman pushing a walker remarked, “Wow, that screamed 80s,” and several young couples appeared slightly dazed. They’d all just experienced the Joffrey Ballet’s performance of “In the Middle, Slightly Elevated,” a masterpiece that shocks the senses, and all sense of ballet aesthetics, even if you are expecting to be shocked. Choreographed by William Forsythe for the Paris Opera in 1987, the work is danced by many companies around the…
Artworks influenced by medical research and inspired by a concern for our water supply can either quench or parch a viewer’s intellectual thirst. In her current exhibition What Comes to Mind: Nature-Human Nature and Visual Translation at La Jolla’s Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, artist Joyce Cutler-Shaw contends with disparate issues such as death, memory, and potable water. The works are also presented in a random, scattershot manner creating an exhibition that appears chaotic and lacking focus. Cutler-Shaw has a long history of making artist books and since 1992 has been artist-in-residence at the University of California, San Diego’s…
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