Loney's Show Notes

Bregenz Festival 2011
The Arrival of Austria's President, Dr. Heinz Fischer, To Open The Bregenz Festival! / Festrede for the 2011 Festival: Changes To Be Made--New Horizons! / Inside Jean Paul Marat's Head: Umberto Giordano's André Chénier Loses His Own Head! / Schöpfung with England's Judith Wier… / On an English Achterbahn or Roller Coaster: Burning the Kebabs Wagon! / Lake Stage André Chénier Will Survive the Alpine Winter To Live Again Next July! / A Potent Plea from Kunsthaus Bregenz: Free Ai Wei Wei!

Munich Festival 2011
Look Where It Comes Again! Munich's Annual Opera Festival--In Various Venues… / Don't Kill Bambi's Mother! Dead Deer Violated in "Director's Theatre" Rusalka! / Da Ponte's Don Giovanni Staged in Perambulating Cargo Containers! / Brilliant Post Modernist Minimalist Ariadne auf Naxos: Truths Revealed… / In Ferrara, Don't Drink the Wine when Lucrezia Borgia Is Pouring! / Tired of Romeo & Juliet? How About Focusing on Capulets & Montagues Instead? / Outside the Official Festival--But Still a State Theatre: The Gärtnerplatztheater! / Very Early German Opera: Georg Philpp Telemann's Der geduldige Socrates… / Madame Butterfly in the Middle of Munich: Modernist Japonoiserie auf Deutsch! / Wright & Forrest's Grand Hotel Still Open for Business & Monkey Business Also. / Getting Ready for Oktoberfest in July: Looking Forward To More Beer Busts!

Report on Charleston's Spoleto Festival USA: May 27 to June 12, 2011
Channeling Gian Carlo Menotti in a New Medium…, Elizabeth Futral Channels Émilie du Chatelet: Fearing Death & Translating Newton!, More Genius from Cornwall & Emma Rice: Not The Red Shoes You Thought You Knew., Brilliant Dancing & Choreography from the Corella Ballet: Come Back to Manhattan Next Time!, Mozart's Magic Flute Gets the French Treatment: Falling Through the Floor a Lot…, No Khmer Rouge Makeup for Cambodian Khmeropédies: Ritualized Court & Temple Dancing., Anne Marie McDermott Brings Louie Gottschalck Back To Vibrant Life: The Union.

Time was, when May 31 arrived, The Season was at an end. Not Now.
Reality Challenged Male Has Affair with Fantasy Girl friend in Love Song!, Angry Old Brooklyn Commie Wants Out of Life: Tony Kushner's Latest…, Alzheimers Is No Fun: A Disoriented Julia at 59E59…, Banned Belarus Free Theatre at La MaMa: State Terror & Harold Pinter., Molière's Misanthrope Transmuted into School for Lies, by David Ives…, The Ex First Lady of New York City--Donna Hanover--Is in Picked at the Vineyard!, The Soul Leaves The Body in Tremendous Farts: Hannoch Levin's Winter Wedding!, Lynn Nottage's Newest: Blacks in the Movies--Do Meet Vera Stark., Down at the Public Theatre: Knickerbocker, in Which Bob Dishy Returns!, Target Tempest Not in a Tea pot, but at HERE, in a Candle lit Victorian Theatre!, Derek Jacobi's Lear at BAM: Every Inch a King!, Irish Villains Foiled Again by Irish Heroes: The Shaughraun, at Irish Rep!, George Bernard Shaw Sings Again! Candida Transmuted into A Minister's Wife., Newsical the Musical Brings You Recycled TV Newscasts & More…, Lucky Guy: This Hilarious Show Is The Book of Mormon for Country & Western!, Improve Your Yiddish with Fiddler on the Roof Sound Alike: Hershele Ostropolyer, Rally Round Herne's Oak! Charming Mannes College Falstaff at the Kaye Theatre., Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya: Together Again on [Upper] Broadway in September Songs., Boys Made of Cheese May Have Some Survival Problems…, Karen Kandel Deserves a Tony©™ for Her Remarkable Role in Peter & Wendy!, Avant Garde Down in the Vaults at 14 Wall Street: Monk Parrots' Gay Rodeo By Laws, First It Was the Jersey Boys, But Now, It's Jersey Girls: Loose Screws…, Tovah Feldshuh, David Dinkins, & Scott Siegel Help Town Hall Celebrate Ninety Years!, Town Hall Celebrates Broadway Musicals of 1982 with the Mark Stuart Dance Theatre!, Linda Eder Almost Back on Broadway--Two Blocks Away, at Town Hall, in Concert!

Troubled Humanity On Stage at the Humana Festival
Adam Rapp Is Inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids for The Edge of Our Bodies, A Devil at Noon Is Not Quite the Same Thing as The Noonday Witch, Bob Is Destined for FAME: He Sees Himself Right-Up-There on Mount-Rushmore!, Store-bought Bright & New: Living Now in the 1950s—Maple & Vine!, Gun-Control for Edith: Do Not Shoot Your Father’s New Squeeze!, Elemeno Pea Is Really L-M-N-O-P! The Rich Are Not Like Us!, The End, the Interns’-Show, Needs a Stronger-Conclusion…, Three Ten-Minute Plays in More Than Ten-Minutes!

Last Minute Flurry of Openings of New Productions: both of Musicals & so called "Straight" Plays
Descent into Dementia: The Other Place…, Watch Your Language! Motherfucker with Two ** on a Broadway Marquee!, WarHorse: Passion for a Puppet Horse: Bring Joey Back Home!, HIGH: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, High, High in the Sky, Bye & Bye…, Jerusalem Trivia Answer: William Blake Wrote Jerusalem!, David Greenspan Brings Ancient Greece to Montauk: Go Back To Where You Are…, Michael Frayn's Benefactors: Next Door Neighbors Can Devour You!, John Guare's Absurdist Black Comedy House of Blue Leaves: Edie Falco Goes Bananas!, Born Yesterday: Yesterday's Play Still Potent for Today's Electorate!, Still Beats The Normal Heart: 35 Million Deaths from AIDS & Counting…, Another Motion Picture Becomes Another Broadway Musical! Catch Me If You Can!, Grimm Fairytales Made Hilarious by Roald Dahl & Elizabeth Swados: Revolting Rhymes!, We Wistfully Wonder Why Wonderland Got the Green Light?, Disney Gives Broadway Yet Another Musical: Sister Act--with Alan Menken Music!, Warner Brothers Gets into the Act with Baby It's You!, Donna Murphy Escapes the Holocaust! The People in the Picture Make Yiddish Films!, Tomorrow Morning: Young Lovers, Young Marrieds, Older Break Ups, with Healing!, Mary Poppins! Eat Your Heart Out! HARRY POTTER FLIES!, Trees Still Grow in Brooklyn, But Better in Park Slope Than in Williamsburg., Anything Goes: Sutton Foster Brings Back Art Deco America & Atlantic Crossings!, Opera at the Juilliard School: Ravel's Spanish Hour & Puccini's Gianni Schichi!, Opera at the Manhattan School of Music: Manuel de Falla's Amor Brujo & Vida Breve., Opera at the David H. Koch Memorial Theatre: Séance on a Wet Afternoon…, Monodramatics! John Leguizamo Once Again Makes Real Life Funny!, Bad Day in the Classroom! Alcoholic Scots School Teacher Strikes Out!, Holocaust Inspired Czech Puppetry Animates Mr. M, Based on Ladislav Fuchs' Novel., Boom Town: Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills! Cirque Mechanics Set Off Dynamite!

April is the cruelest month; March is cruel too.
Rick Elice's PETER & THE STARCATCHER, Caridad Svich's EN ELTIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS, David Lindsay Abaire's GOOD PEOPLE, Thomas Kilroy's MY SCANDALOUS LIFE, Clifford Chase's WINKIE, Robin Rice Lichtig's PLAY NICE!, Bathsheba Doran's KIN, Rajiv Joseph's BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, David West Read's THE DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY, Old Plays in Revival:, Jason Miller's THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON, Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA, Abe Burrows' CACTUS FLOWER, Wm. Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, Lewis Theobald's Adaptation of Cardenio--DOUBLE FALSEHOOD, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE BOOK OF MORMON, SPIDER MAN, TURN OFF THE DARK, Scott Siegel's Broadway by the Year Series, THE MUSICALS OF 1932, , At The Metropolitan Opera, Pete Tchaikovsky's THE QUEEN OF SPADES, Gaetano Donizetti's THE ELIXIR OF LOVE, Zorn, Schoenberg, & Feldman's MONODRAMAS, David Almond's SKELLIG, Theatre Rites & Arthur Pita's MISCHIEF, Tom Judson's CANNED HAM, Disney Takes a New Look at the Peter Pan Legend--With a Starcatcher!

Denver: The Colorado New Play Summit
Flying out of Snow in Manhattan to Snow in Mile High Denver might seem an exercise in Futility. From Bad Weather to more Bad Weather? Why not do what some well heeled New Yorkers & Oldsters do? Fly off to Sunny Florida! But then you’d miss the Sixth Annual Colorado New Play Summit.

February, 2011 Roundup
No More Uncle Wiggley in Connecticut: Blood from a Stone…, "Pete" Gurney Recycles Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, with The Last Wasp in Black Tie!, African Americans Celebrate Passover in Virginia Plantation Ruins: Shalom!, Shalom! South Bronx 1940s Teens Don’t Understand Mr. Hirsch, Who Died Yesterday., Rooting Through Rubbish To Find Key To Dead Father: Disposable Cameras—In Your Image., Don’t Vote for Either of These Presidential Candidates: The Body Politic., Beheading for a Billionaire Brunch: Food Prepping for the Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller!, Madmen on the Loose: Compulsion & Diary of a Madman: Mandy Patinkin & Geoffrey Rush!, At the New City: More Than You Need To Know About Sex Among the Younger Generation., Which Is Which: The Wicked Witch or The Witch of Edmonton?, Single Ladies Join Forces in David Mamet’s Boston Marriage at Juilliard Drama., Molly Sweeney: There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See…, Timon! Do Not Waste Your Wealth: No Bail Outs for Dishonest Athenian Movers & Shakers!, All Singing, All Dancing New American Musical in Dubai Reprised: The Road to Qatar!, Bartered Bride Not Battered! James Levine on Juilliard Podium!, John Adams on Carnegie Podium, Conducting Juilliard Orchestra!, Good Advice from a Burning Bush: Free My People & Make a VideOpera: Mosheh!, Spalding Gray Recycled: Zach Helm Is Now Interviewing the Audience!, Around the World in 80 Days Reduced to 60 Minutes: Colin Quinn’s Long Short Story.

January, 2011 Roundup
What To Do About Gruesome Playground Injuries? Close Down the Playground?; Look! Up in the Sky! It’s The Starry Messenger! Galileo Galilei Revisited; Other Desert Cities: Ronald Reagan Is Alive But Unwell in Palm Springs!; You Conned Me Out of My ScreenPlay, But You Didn’t Win the Oscar, Did You?; Ellen Stewart Honored: Ma Yi Theatre’s Flipzoids on an Anaheim Beach…; A Small Fire: Who Will Help You When You Lose Almost All Your Senses, One by One?; The Archduke of Austria Was Assassinated in Sarajevo: Now, Trouble in Two Kitchens!; All Fall Down Dead in David Belasco’s Haunted Apartment Above His Namesake Theatre!; Despising Polite Social Lies & Artifice, Truth Telling Misanthrope Ends with No Friends!; Battle Snow Drifts to BAM in Brooklyn: See Alan Rickman as Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman!; The Three Sisters Dream of Moscow: But Not of Moscow, Idaho!; Fly Off to the American Airlines Theatre: See Brian Bedford as the Imperious Lady Bracknell!; The New York Idea: What’s The Big Idea, New Yorkers? Why All These Divorces?; Venal Publisher Wants Only To Make Money from His Newspapers: Facts & Truth Be Damned!; Olympia Dukakis Larger Than Life Where the Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Anymore!; Menotti, Ward, & Floyd Show Their Operatic Powers in Mannes’ Sinners & Saints.; As a Stand Up Comic, Rigoletto Wouldn’t Make It in Prime Time: Too Bitter, Too Negative…; Watch Out! Give a Shout! There Are MIMES in Room 17B!

December, 2010 Roundup
Edna O'Brien's HAUNTED, Inspector Sands' IF THAT'S ALL THERE IS, Isabel Allende's LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS, Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN, Craig Wright's MISTAKES WERE MADE, Making Music at New York Theatre Workshop: Burkhardt, Duffy, & Malloy's THREE PIANOS, Giacomo Puccini's LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST, Claude Debussy's PELLEAS ET MELISANDE, Lee Hoiby's SUMMER & SMOKE, Claudio Monteverdi's RITORNO DI ULISSE IN PATRIA, Avant Garde Theatre Lives Again at Ellen Stewart's LaMaMa E.T.C. John Kelly's PASS THE BLUTWURST, BITTE, Ildiko Nemeth's MAPPING MOBIUS, At the Park Avenue Armory: Peter Greenaway's THE LAST SUPPER, Across the River & into BAM: Gardarsson, Farr, & Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS, Victorious at the New Victory: Mayumana's MOMENTUM.

November, 2010 Roundup
THE RIDE Will Take You for a Ride Around Midtown You Won't Soon Forget!, Vince Lombardi Wants Winners! Big City Reporters, Beware!, John Guare Strikes Again! A Free Man of Color Is a Louisiana Hayride Through Drama Lit!, The Last Castrato Sings Again! Why Aren't the Monks Still Castrating for the Vatican Choir?, G-d Speaks To Those Who Will Listen--But Neil LaBute Warns Us of the Consequences…, Charles Busch Takes the Veil: A Superior Mother Superior at St. Veronica's Convent!, Pee Wee Herman Lives Again--But Only for a Limited Run at the Steve Sondheim Theatre., In The Wake--Not of the Red Witch--But of Recent Political Disasters: Unearned Empathy?, What Do You Mean: Grand dad was a Commie Spy? After the Revolution & Then Some…, What Can Be More Boring Than a Family Reunion Dinner? A Dysfunctional Family Buffet…, Orphaned Welsh Demon Twins Drive Godmother to Distraction & Death: Don't Drink the Punch!, Lingua Franca: Teaching British--not American--English To Italians in Firenze…, Al in a Tallis: But Don't Forget That He's the Money Lender, Not the Merchant of Venice!, Watch Out for That White Horse! Trouble Down at the Mill Race for Rosmer in Rosmersholm., That Wasn't Vanessa Redgrave We Saw? Maureen Anderman Played Miss Daisy?, Three Weeks of ReHab in Mt. Siniai's Klingenstein Pavilion: Déjá Vu with Wings., Tony Kushner's "Gay Fantasia" Is Nothing Like Walt Disney's Fantasia…, Get the DVD of Pedro Almodóvar's Women Fully To Appreciate the New Musical Version!, Sing Along with Genocidal Andrew Jackson: Free Up the Frontier for Real Americans!, ELF--Will Ferrell, Where Are You, Now That We Need You?, You Threw the Wrong Baby in the Fire, Azucena! How Could a Mother Make Such a Mistake?, Open Casket for Bernstein's Quiet Place: Sex Angst of Dysfunctional Suburban Family., You Idiot! Why Dress Like Drusilla? Nero's Men Will Kill You: Heroes Never Wear Heels…, That Guy Who Looked Like Charlie Chaplin--Was He Twins or Something? No: He's Raoul!, BAM Books a Show from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Ping Chong's Throne of Blood!, Do Not Squirm at the Squirm Burpee Circus: Do Have a Great Time!, Scott Siegel's Broadway Unplugged: Vintage Songs Uncorked by Experts!

Annual Munich Festival at the Bavarian State Opera, Plus Powerful Productions at the Second Tier Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
Figaro in a White Box!, Tosca, Fresh from the Metropolitan!, Colorful Watering Cans for L'Elisir d'Amore!, Meanwhile, Across Town at the Gärtnerplatz Theater, Bert Brecht & Kurt Weill's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.

Two Wolfgang Wagner Sisters--Eva & Katharina--Give the Bayreuth Festival a New Look & New Directions…
HUGE LAB RATS ENGULF ELSA & LOHENGRIN IN NEW BAYREUTH STAGING! Genetic Engineering Gone Wrong & Plucked Swans? / GERMAN HISTORY: 1870 TO POST WORLD WAR II SOCIO POLITICALLY REPRISED IN BAYREUTH PARSIFAL! Or an Opera about a Big Bed in the Middle of Haus Wahnfried? / A SECOND LOOK AT KATHARINA WAGNER'S DIE MEISTERSINGER From the Show Notes Archives: / What Really Happened in Nuremberg? / Hans Sachs: Painter & Poet Versus Sixtus Beckmesser: Avant garde Artist! / Katharina Wagner's Bayreuth Beckmesser Bombshell! / Theoretic Bases for This Wagner Innovation? / What Looked Different in Meistersinger 2010? / Two Wagner Song Contests--Quasi Comic vs. Religio Tragic: Basic Prize Concept: The Winner Is Supposed To Get the Girl! / Wagnerian Opera for Kids: Find the Pink Flamingo! / WHAT TIME'S THE NEXT SWAN? / AGAIN, ECHOES FROM THE LONEY BAYREUTH ARCHIVES: / BACKGROUND: / The Great Opera Debate: Who Will Be the Artistic Director of the Bayreuth Festival? / Is There a Katharina Campaign? / The Other Wagner Candidates: / Should the Bayreuth Season Be Longer? / Could Bayreuth Become an International Opera Festival City? / The Wagner Family Inheritance & The Gremium: / Is the Bayreuth Festival Sexist? Only Two Women Have Staged Wagner in His Festspielhaus / Is Katharina Wagner's Meistersinger Her Meisterstück? / What's Blowing in the Bayreuth Festival Winds: Is the Wind Vane Beginning To Turn?

Fragments of the Shattered Statue of Liberty Rise Up Out of Lake Constance for Bregenz Aida!
Festive Opening of the Bregenz Festival 2010 / DIE PASSAGIERIN: Honeymoon on an Ocean-Liner Becomes a Horror-Story! / Mieczyslaw Weinberg [1919-1996]: A Great Modern Composer, Virtually Unknown in the West! / STATUE OF LIBERTY SMASHED INTO FRAGMENTS--POSSIBLY BY TERRORISTS--FOR BREGENZ-FESTIVAL AIDA PRODUCTION! / Not Only Performing-Arts in Bregenz: Also Art in Kunsthaus-Bregenz & Antony Gormley's Iron-Men in the Alps! / French-Revolution To Take Center-Stage on Lake-Constance: Giordano's André Chénier To Rise Out of Bodensee-Waves in Festival 2011!

The Obergammau Passion Play 2010
Jesus' Last Week on Earth--the Passion of the Christ--Is Recreated in the Bavarian Alps Every Ten Years! / A New Look for Oberammergau: Passion-Play 2000 With New Sets & Costumes / Robert Wilson's Oberammergau Installation: A New Vision of The Stations of the Cross.

Denver, the Mile High Culture City!
Two World-Premieres for Colorado New Play Summit!, Show Tickets Start at $18, Amazing Versatile Ensemble at Denver Theatre Center, Artistic-Director Kent Thompson Innovates, Young American Playwrights in the Spotlight, Laika & Yuri Gargarin adrift in Outer-Space!, Will Prayer Save a Marriage & a Family When Dad Is a NASA Astronaut?, Can Tang Make a Difference even in a Pie?, Why Did Those Two Old Bachelor Rancher-Brothers Never Marry?, Should Small-Children Be Taken-Away from Dim-Witted Parents?, Do Incompetents Deserve Food-Stamps: Won’t they Squander the Tax-Payers’ Subsidies?, Free-Rides on 16th Street Mall Buses, Denver’s Post-Post-Modernist Art-Museum: the Daniel Libeskind Addition, Allen True’s Art-Deco Murals, Frank Ghery’s Stunning Denver Public-Library, Get High a Mile High: Denver Medical Marijuana!

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Croyden's Corner

Reviews of the Season
Margaret weighs in on "Fragments" directed by Peter Brook, "Krapp's Last Tape" at BAM and Broadway's "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Hugh Jackman."

Private Lives
If you’re in a dark mood and want to travel back in time to the 1930s in a frivolous world of glitz and glam, cocktails, and England’s upper crust, then go see Private Lives by Noël Coward.. In this production, directed by Richard Eyre, glamour is the word.

Newly out of her corner
Margaret writes, "Friends, I’ve been away a long time writing a new book, “The Years In Between – A Reporters Journey: World War II-The Cold War." Here are some or her brief thoughts on "Follies," Frank Langella and Peter Brook's "Magic Flute."

Finian's Rainbow
Yet another Broadway musical closes even though it recieved high rated reviews. Can a Broadway show continue today without Hollywood or TV Stars? By Margret Croyden.

Brighton Beach Memoirs
This has been a strange season indeed. Shows close unexpectedly, shows are postponed unexpectedly, and actors are thrown out of work without much notice, but how did Neil Simon's production of Brighton Beach Memoirs only manage to last 3 days? By Margret Croyden.

The Royal Family
"The Royal Family" by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, produced by the Manhattan Theater Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, is the latest addition to the spate of revivals that has characterized contemporary theater in the Times Square area. Can Rosemary Harris make this one succeed? By Margaret Croyden.

"Billy Elliot The Musical"
It is no wonder that "Billy Elliot" won so many Tony awards. Rightly so. If you want to have a total theater experience and a memorable evening full of joy and exuberance, see "Billy Elliot, " a remarkable achievement. Although "Billy Elliot" is listed as a Broadway musical, it is not an ordinary one. With a poignant story and some terrific acting, besides unusual dancing, and gifted young people who make up the plot, I assure you will be happy when you come out of the theater and will long remember it. By Margaret Croyden.

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Wehle's World

Shining through the Gloom thanks to BAM’s 2008 Next Wave Festival
BAM’s Next Wave Festival’s 2008 season began with two exciting productions that proved to be great antidotes to the depressed mood that pervades so much of our lives these days.What better way to come out of the doldrums than to take a trip to BAM to discover such treasures as The Reykjavik City Theatre and Vesturport’s adaptation of Buchner’s “Woyzeck” with original music by Australian rocker Nick Cave and Bad Seed’s violinist Warren Ellis? By Philippa Wehle.

"Surrender" is not surrender!
"Surrender" is a masterful achievement on all fronts. Not only have Josh Fox and The International WOW Company succeeded in producing an important piece about the war in Iraq, but the interactive nature of the show allows both soldiers and observers to get a much closer look at what it means to volunteer for duty, to train, kill and be killed, than we ever get from televised reports of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.. How they manage to harness the energies, dedication and enthusiasm of a new group of amateur players each time the show is performed is equally remarkable. Unfortunately, this memorable show only runs for three weeks. I can only hope that it will find other sponsors and another space so that many more people can observe war close up. By Philippa Wehle.

Interviews

Krystian Lupa

A Dialogue with the Polish Master Krystian Lupa
In Europe, the Polish stage director Krystian Lupa is considered a theatrical giant. As attested by the 13th Europe Theatre Prize that was bestowed upon him this past April, Lupa is ranked alongside such major world figures as Harold Pinter, Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine and Pina Bausch. A director, stage designer and writer, Lupa has been honored with an Austrian Cross of Merit in 2001 and the French Order of the Fine Arts and Humanities in 2002. As my interview with Lupa below shows (conducted with a Polish translator), Lupa is deeply aware that many gurus are emperors with no clothes—that often actors blindly follow a great artist by simple virtue of their charisma. In his most recent works, particularly Factory 2 and Persona, Lupa seeks to expose the irony of the phenomenon of personality, and he doesn’t mind besmirching the sacred idols to prove his point. By Randy Gener.

Other Contributors

Headshot lane at Showbiz Expo 2010. Photo by Cathy Rocher.

Networking at ShowBiz Expo
ShowBiz Expo is the largest annual networking event for the entertainment industry in NYC. It offers many possibilities to people from showbusiness to meet each other. This year, attendees could visit the exhibition hall and participate in workshops and focus groups. A film festival, a headshot fair, a showbiz project board, casting calls and showcases for music, movies and designers were also held. By Cathy Rocher.

WONDER BREAD -- Danusia Trevino in "Wonder Bread" in gala at the Players Club. Photo by JDZ Photography.

"Wonder Bread," an autobiographical account of a woman's journey through poverty and Rock and Roll.
An interview with Danusia Trevino, author and performer of "Wonder Bread," takes us back to communist Poland to uncover more about the production and how the process started. By Zita Bradley.

ART AND DANCE AT FLUSHING TOWN HALL -- "Prison," choreographed by David ChienHui Shen, was one of seven dances in Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America's "Traces: Variations in a Foreign Land."

Art and Dance at Flushing Town Hall
David ChienHui Shen is Chinese, Mica Bernas is Filipino and Kyla Barkin and Aaron Selissen are native-born Americans. They met while dancing together in the New York City community and have collaborated as choreographers in "Traces: Variations In A Foreign Land," presented by Yangtze Repertory Theater." As they all have different choreographic styles, they were eager to collaborate together and dance in each other's pieces to learn about each other's cultures and dance techniques. By Zita Bradley.

Harold Pinter.

Harold Pinter at a dinner party in Turkey, where the playwright challenged the U.S. ambassador
British playwright Harold Pinter died on December 24, 2008. He was a man committed to political freedom and did his part to promote it. By Lucy Komisar.

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