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Sixty-six years old and still packing a punch
Posted by: | CommentsAbove: A scene from ATC’s production of “The Glass Menagerie”
It’s the final weekend for Arizona Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ earth-shaking 1944 drama, The Glass Menagerie.
This is a don’t-miss production, so do your best to grab a remaining ticket or two.
It’s amazing how great art can continue to speak to us decades after its creation. Centuries later is one thing — by that time, the noise has filtered out and all that’s left is the bell-like sound of the work’s final meaning. But decades are the real test. Changes in fashion — verbal, visual and sentimental — are merciless, and what in 1944 seemed radical and powerful could easily feel unremarkable in 2010. Not so the early plays of Tennessee Williams. Go and see for yourself.
Spring into Fall…
Posted by: | CommentsArizona State University professor of clarinet Robert Spring opens each school year with a recital. This year is no different. On Sunday Sept. 13, Spring will perform with select ASU colleagues at Katzin Concert Hall, beginning at 2:30 p.m.
Spring, a globe-trotting concertizer when not professing his instrument to students, will play the world premiere of a work by legendary clarinetist/composer William O. Smith, numerous other contemporary pieces, and one bona fide 20th century classic, the Francis Poulenc Clarinet Sonata.
For more information, go here.
From Phoenix to Times Square
Posted by: | CommentsA short play produced last year at the adventurous Phoenix venue, Theatre Artists Studio, will be seen in New York next month. Phoenix playwright Richard Warren’s Together Alone will be produced by Turtle Shell Productions at the company’s theater in Times Square, as part of a playwright’s festival Sept. 25-Oct. 11. If you happen to be in New York during that time, you can call (212) 352-3101 for tickets.
Together Alone involves a chance meeting between a man and a woman in an art museum. According to Warren, “The play explores what it means to be truly alone.”
For more info on Turtle Shell’s production, go here.
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Moscow Muses
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Annie Moscow
Phoenix songwriter Annie Moscow’s witty and enchanting – if ponderously titled – one-woman show, The Philosophical Musings of a Suburban Dwelling Free-Spirit Ex-Hippie Wannabe with Longings for Connections and Security (we warned you), plays through Sunday at Theatre Artists Studio. When Moscow, a songwriter of both lyrical insight and musical savvy, first did Philosophical Musings last year for the Herberger’s lunchtime series, she took a few swipes at everybody’s favorite scapegoat, dear old mom. After thinking it over, Moscow now says:
“The first show had jokes about my mother that may’ve been a little harsh. Don’t worry. They’re still there.”
Even so, Moscow has written a new song for the revival called “I Think I Understand You Now,” which reportedly softens the blow.
For info on her show, go here.
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