Category Archives: Film
What is between the devil and the deep blue sea?
It’s a place that’s neither here nor there. Not real and not unreal. Among the present and the then and the later. That’s the terrain that 1927, the theatrical cabaret company, explores in Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. We saw its opening last night. Devil a thrilling show that plays with conventions […]
War is hell (even for toy soldiers)
Postal is about to open at the Terrace Theatre and from what I’ve heard, it promises depictions of violence are about a gratuitous as it gets. Which is fine. I don’t mind violence. That is, I don’t have an opinion about its relative merits. I don’t really care for it, however, unless it leads somewhere. […]
So two comedians walk into a ballet studio…
My 90 minutes with Philip Glass’ Book of Longing is now already almost 27 hours past, and on top of that I have to distill some thoughts on today’s final Music in Time concert and this evening’s encounter with the extraordinary (get a ticket now at any cost) Aurelia’s Oratorio. But first, a word on […]
Human behavior
It’s something of an understament to say that a lot of people have been looking forward to seeing newly minted MTV celebs and Comedy Festival/Piccolo alumns Human Giant in Theatre 99’s Piccolo Fringe this week. The comedy trio’s overnight success hasn’t landded them on the cover of Rolling Stone yet, but it’s not out of […]
Piano wire and Sopranos
Leaving Sekou Sundiata’s show led the Lowbrow to innards of a different kind on Monday. Music in Time series coordinator John Kennedy’s got a lot on his plate this year – herding the Spoleto Festival Orchestra and conducting them in one of the big operas, Faustus, The Last Night, at the Sottile – so he’s […]
Big Bang Theory
I’m off to the American Theater for the premiere of Charleston Stage Company’s Denmark Vesey: Insurrection at the moment, followed by the opening reception for the Gibbes Museum’s Rodin exhibit. The weather’s looking reasonably good for tomorrow’s opening ceremony at City Hall: mostly sunny and a balmy 80 degrees.Yesterday afternoon I recorded Buzzcast #4 with […]
Dangerous times call for Dangerous Strangers
Last Saturday night’s final Cabaret Kiki show at Theatre 99 was, like the previous two, so sold out that a line formed of those willing to trade arms, legs, and firstborn children for seats. Audience members walking to the back of the Bicycle Shoppe and T99’s entrance had to navigate around what seemed to be […]
Better Red than Dead Broke
The battleship Potemkin was a notorious political football in the years leading up to and during the Russian Revolution; it suffered through
mutinies and civil war insurgencies, not to mention the indignities of being renamed four times and handed off to Romania — only to be handed back again. In the end, the Potemkin was […]
Getting forensic on Spoleto 2007
The 31st Spoleto Festival USA is officially in the past tense. It’s now time to get forensic on the thing. But that’s less easy than it sounds. Part of the difficulty in summing up the festival after the fact lies in its nature; as Mayor Riley noted during the mid-festival tribute to founder Gian Carlo […]