Posts tagged as Showed Up
Showed Up: Matt Marks' "Post-Christian Nihilist Pop Opera" at St. Mark's Church
How much time will you give an unfamiliar work of art? When I was six or seven, I complained straight away about the slow narrative trot of The Silence, prompting my father to retort: "It's Bergman. You give a master at least 15 minutes before you start fidgeting." But obviously we don't give young bucks (who aren't in the canon) quite the same attention-span leash. And then what if you're giving some new art "a try" on the internet? My sense is "15 seconds" may be the stick-it-out-or-fidget Rubicon. Which is to say, if you only give the above music video from a new "post-Christian nihilist pop opera" 15 seconds of your time, you might think it "meh." Give it three and a half minutes, though, and I suspect there's a much better chance you'll be wowed. For me, the coolest turn begins at the 2:18 mark, and climaxes with the chord that hits at 2:35. READ MORE
Showed Up: Young@Heart at St. Ann's Warehouse
The Young @ Heart Chorus is that group of old people who sing rock songs. A couple years ago somebody made a documentary about them, but it's not very good. Instead, see their new revue, "The End of the Road," at St. Ann's Warehouse. They are there through Saturday. It is the #1 recommended way to see these old people sing. READ MORE
Showed Up: Sam Mendes Does 'The Tempest' and 'As You Like It' at BAM
The second of three seasons of The Bridge Project, a partnership of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Old Vic and Neal Street, is closing at BAM this week. Last year, Sam Mendes staged The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard here; this year it's The Tempest and As You Like It. Two of those plays are romances, involving love but also magic, sadness, and personal redemption. One, written as a comedy, is regularly performed as a tragedy, which means that audiences see it as a little of both. As You Like It is a straightforward comedy, but here Mendes has added a torture scene, which isn't very funny. READ MORE
Showed Up: 'Elektra' at the Metropolitan Opera
Seth Colter Walls: Matthew, why is Elektra, currently at the Met, important? Like, The Awl basically never covers operas. Why are we doing this one? READ MORE
The Plot of 'Wintuk'
I will now relay to you the plot of Cirque du Soleil's Wintuk, which plays each holiday season in the 5600-seat WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden. READ MORE
Showed Up: Deez Nuts, A Rap Musical
Musicals are gross and I hate them. People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at. This is not a sentiment that will be shared by all but when someone told me DEEZ NUTS was a rap play with a prominent musical bent I was a little very afraid. Full disclosure, the playwright, Sacha Jenkins is a friend but that's always the massive risk when you partake of a very creative friend's creative offerings. It can veer extraordinarily deep into the realm of the unfortunate and you can't make eye contact with a bunch of people once- to-thrice removed from said locus. But whatevs it's New York and I barely leave my house! READ MORE
