Elaine Stritch : Shoot Me

  In the year approaching her 87th Birthday Broadway Legend Elaine Stritch allowed first time Director Chiemi Karasawa to follow her around and film her warts and all resulting in this compelling new documentary.  A brave move for someone battling with diabetes and failing health who is determined to keep performing even though it seems such … Continue reading

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Provincetown’s Peregrine Theater Ensemble is offering a rare opportunity to see and hear one of the most beautifully poignant ‘musicals’ that evolved about the AIDS pandemic. Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens  was inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, and is a song cycle with … Continue reading

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens for World AIDS Day

  Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a stunning song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text by Bill Russell. The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters‘ Spoon River Anthology. Each of the monologues is written from the perspective of characters who’ve died from … Continue reading

Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens : a richer and more diverse Inheritance

  Elegies for Angels, Punks AND Raging Queens  ☆☆☆☆ Union Theatre, London In a year in which The Inheritance claimed every kind of London theatre accolade it’s a tough job to put on an AIDS crisis era play without inviting comparison. Happily, when contrasted rather than compared, Elegies sets its own standard. It is different … Continue reading

ELENA

In Andre Zvyagintsev’s rather somber movie set in modern-day Moscow its painfully clear that despite all its fine principles post Soviet Russia is simply just another society where the ‘have’ and the ‘have not’s’ bitterly resent each other.  The wealthy have greatly profited from the new capitalism whilst the poor are finding it difficult to … Continue reading

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