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Written by Barry Gaines
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last updated Wednesday, February 28, 2007, at 13:55:47
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Omnirootz, the African-American theater group, has re-emerged at Out ch’YondA Live Arts Studio, a 50-seat display and performance space in Barelas.
“Mitote” by Maisha Baton opened to a full and enthusiastic house. Baton is a Black poet and playwright who teaches at UNM. Her play, set in the New Mexico Territory, treats three individualized women and their stories; each has found freedom here.
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"No Way to Treat a Lady” by Douglas J. Cohen |
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Written by Barry Gaines
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last updated Wednesday, February 28, 2007, at 13:56:38
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The connection between the murders that terrorized Boston in the early 1960s and the enjoyable musical at the Adobe is surprising.
In 1964 William Goldman wrote “No Way to Treat a Lady,” a humorous novel based on the Boston Strangler. Goldman then worked on the screenplay for the 1968 film. In 1987, Douglas J. Cohen turned the story into the musical. Goldman’s book, lyrics, and music are more serviceable than memorable, but Director Cy Hoffman’s strong cast and musicians do a fine job with it, extracting fun from the improbable source.
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"Frankenstein in Love" by Clive Barker |
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Written by Barry Gaines
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last updated Wednesday, February 28, 2007, at 13:58:01
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Last year at this season, blood was in the air with three Dracula plays. Now, at the Vortex, the focus is on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” with that modern purveyor of horror Clive Barker’s “Frankenstein in Love.”
The adults-only play is a sprawling collection of variations on the idea of human vivisection and reconstruction set in a grim, Gothic world of putrefaction--an unlikely setting for love and humor to emerge.
But they do.
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Written by D.S. Crafts
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last updated Wednesday, February 28, 2007, at 14:37:23
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Concertgoers in Corrales Saturday night were treated to a wide assortment of beautiful music from the Baroque to the Romantic. The five-member ensemble ArcoVoce (literally Bow and Voice, a combination of string instruments and voice) makes a specialty of mixing music from various historical periods to see what relationships might come to light.
They brought to the Historic Old San Ysidro Church a program of music ideally suited to the strengths of their ensemble, and highlighting the magnificent voice of soprano Rosa Lamoreaux.
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Written by D.S. Crafts
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last updated Wednesday, February 28, 2007, at 14:38:08
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It is not often one can boast of hearing one of the world’s greatest string quartets twice inside a month. Thanks to the Santa Fe Concert Association, the Takacs String Quartet made its second appearance in the area Monday night, hosting veteran pianist Garrick Ohlsson into the bargain.
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About Reviewers D.S. Crafts (Website) Composer Daniel Steven Crafts came to New Mexico from San Francisco where he had hosted a classical music radio program on KPFA. His first commission from opera star Jerry Hadley, "The Song & the Slogan" based on texts by Carl Sandburg, was made into a TV program for the PBS network and aired nationally in 2004 and won an Emmy for Best Music. His latest opera La Llorona is a collaboration with novelist Rudolfo Anaya based on his play "The Season of La Llorona." Mr. Crafts is currently working on another commission from Jerry Hadley for a piece about the American Southwest which includes texts by Rudolfo Anaya and V.B. Price. Two CDs of his music, Contemporaries (short, satirical keyboard works) and ARIAS (excerpts from his various operas) have been released on the BACAT label in San Francisco.
David Steinberg David Steinberg has covered state government, the courts, city and county government in Santa Fe for the Albuquerque Journal. He's been an arts writer for the past 20 years, and serves as the book editor, for the Journal. Over the years, he's also acted in plays, sung in choruses and played trumpet.
Jennifer Noyer Jennifer Noyer has been writing dance reviews for the Albuquerque Journal for 17 years, as well as contributing articles for Dance Magazine and other art journals. She trained in dance with Hanya Holm in New York City and Colorado Springs, and studied several dance techniques at the graduate level at the University of Michigan. After teaching dance at Wayne State University she entered and completed a Masters Degree in Humanities there. In New Mexico Ms. Noyer has taught, directed, and choreographed contemporary dance for several years. Her writing on dance includes a monograph accompanying the video of choreographer Bill Evens’ ballet “The Legacy.” An overview of Evans’s world wide career, it was written and published during his tenure at the University of New Mexico. Ms. Noyer’s studies in the humanities, and her studio dance work influence her approach to dance as an integrative art form in the United States.
Barry Gaines Barry Gaines has taught Shakespeare in the University of New Mexico English Department for over twenty-five years and has received two outstanding teaching awards. He has written theater reviews for the Journal since 2000. He has attended theater all over the world including Shakespeare productions in Russia, South Africa, Denmark, and Poland. He has also served as literary advisor for two professional theater companies and written performance reviews for Shakespeare Quarterly. Gaines has taken two years of acting with Paul Ford and appeared in small parts in three plays at the Albuquerque Little Theater. He believes that he is probably a better reviewer than actor.
Joanne Sheehy Hoover Joanne Sheehy Hoover, music critic emeritus of the Albuquerque Journal, has written for NPR, PBS, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Symphony, among others. She has also been a music lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates and a music critic and arts writer for The Washington Post. She was director of the Levine School of Music, one of the country’s largest community music schools, in Washington, D. C. 1980-1993. She and her husband moved to Corrales, New Mexico in July 1993. Also a poet, her fifth collection, “Einstein in New Mexico,” was published in 2002.
Marissa Greenberg Marissa Greenberg is a member of the faculty of the University of New Mexico English Department, where she teaches Shakespeare and early English literature. A prior guest reviewer for the Albuquerque Journal, Greenberg will be reviewing theater while Barry Gaines is out of town. She also composed and edited the program notes for last year’s Albuquerque Shakespeare Festival and has written performance reviews for Shakespeare Bulletin. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, Greenberg has been performing and studying drama for most of her life. She is thrilled to have this opportunity to review for the Journal.
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