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Talking Matters of the Heart with Ballet BC’s Romeo + Juliet

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February 8, 2018February 9, 2018
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Shakespeare’ s iconic play, “Romeo and Juliet” lay the solid foundations of our present-day ideas of love and romance, despite the wear and tear of four centuries. William Shakespeare vividly recreated the mad longing of young love, its reckless nature,

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Meet the New Lads on the Block in “Dublin Oldschool”

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February 1, 2018February 5, 2018
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“Dublin Oldschool” is a labour of love. Whether conveying a love for a city as intriguing as Dublin, the love of doing things for the heck of it, the love for family, or the love of music, this show is

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“It’s Dark Outside” is A Deeply Moving Portrait of Aging

PTC IT'S DARK OUTSIDE. Pictured - Tim Watts. Credits - Richard Jefferson_3
January 30, 2018January 30, 2018
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“It’s Dark Outside” was a delight. It was intrinsically sad yet uplifting, visually mesmerising and ultimately spellbinding. Its meaning is elusive at first. Pitched as a wild west mystery, we follow our weathered protagonist’s quest to understand the mysterious things

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A Haunting DJ Beat is Immortalized in “I’m Not Here”

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January 28, 2018January 30, 2018
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The beginning of “I’m Not Here” is just as the title suggests. One minute someone is there and then they aren’t. One minute the chair is there and then it isn’t. The performance asks and echoes, again, and again, “is

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“Radio Rewrite” Transforms Radiohead’s Popular Music into Classical Symphonies

Lezing Franse compoist Olivier Messianen in Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag
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January 25, 2018January 25, 2018
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A show about Radiohead can only be accurately reviewed by a Radiohead expert. So we turned to an avid fan of the iconic band to check out “Radio Rewrite” at the Push Festival. Abhi’s perspective is not only valuable in the

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The Romantic “L’Elisir d’amore” Will Turn Newbies Into Opera Enthusiasts

VO - Ying Fang as Adina, Andrew Haji as Nemorino cred Tim Matheson 5x8
January 23, 2018
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I don’t know much about opera, in fact, historically my attitude has been one of disinterested ignorance. Listening or watching recordings of opera has never really moved me, apart from maybe the hard-hitting arias popularised on ice cream commercials. So

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Nicola Gunn is Playful in the Ethically Contemplative “Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster”

PPGB 4 © Zan Wimberley
January 22, 2018
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Cute is a dangerous word because when we say anything is cute we think it’s small and it’s frivolous and of course, feminine. We definitely don’t think cute is intellectual or extremely well versed in philosophy, history and ethics. But

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