Category Archives: Media Coverage
It’s a wrap (plus blog stats)
It’s finally over.
Last night at Middleton Place was a terrific cap to this year’s Spoleto Festival.
We’ve seen a lot this year. Some expected, some unexpected, a lot of it memorable, all of it worth doing all over again.
But not for another year.
Meanwhile, it’s time to see what we’ve accomplished.
Here’s the breakdown of what we’ve done, […]
The Post and Courier’s missed opportunity
Philip Murphy of Mount Pleasant found fault with Tim Page’s review of Monkey: Journey to the West. The overview critic for The Post and Courier wrote that he had little taste for the circus or for theatrical fare like that offered by Chinese opera director Chen Shi-Zheng, Britpop songwriter Damon Albarn, and Gorillaz illustrator Jamie […]
More gaffes
The hits keep on coming from the P&C . . .
TUESDAY
In a review of Vaud Rats: Critic Sandy Katz writes that actor K. Brian Neel “channeled Robert Downey Jr. playing Charlie Chaplin.” I’m pretty sure that Neel was influence by Chaplin, but whether he was influenced by Downey playing Chaplin seems to be another matter […]
You’re welcome
That’s what I’d like to say to Dan Conover of the Post and Courier. In today’s preview of Taylor Mac (headline: “Modern ‘fool’ shares truths at his own risk”), Conover talked about the cross-dressing performance artist as “the Fool reimagined for the 21st century” who is “a truth-teller in drag” like “Frank-N-Furter,” Tim Curry’s meatloaf […]
How YouTube is like vaudeville
K. Brian Neel was running a fever the entire time he was performing Vaud Rats on Wednesday night. I found this out afterward while we talked about his interest in the rich history of vaudeville.
As we talked about the play within the play aspect of his show, he asked me what I thought of the […]
Laurie Anderson is ‘multimedia-free’
Dan Wakin, the classical music reporter for The New York Times, observed that “already three productions consciously blur the line between moving images and real life.” In particular, he rightly praises the theater troupe 1927 for its stellar production of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: an “ingenious, macabre little charmer,” he writes. […]
Post and Courier’s many cultural journalism gaffes
ON SATURDAY . . .
In review of Monkey: Journey to the West: Critic George Hubbard writes that Tripitaka, the Buddhist monk, is accompanied in his quest to find the lost sacred scriptures by the Monkey King and the monk’s horses, Pigsy and Sandy. In fact, the monk is accompanied by the monkey, Pigsy, Sandy, and […]
What’s wrong with his shirt?
Criticism has value in the marketplace of ideas, but the whole enterprise is undermined a little bit more each time a review gets into print like this morning’s P&C review on Amistad. The reviewer, Jeff Johnson, evidently felt uninspired by Spoleto’s restaging of Anthony Davis 1997 opera about the legal battle facing illegally imported Africans […]
That horrible monkey thing
(Note: This was originally posted yesterday. We second-guessed ourselves, thinking this was mean, not funny. So we took it down. Then we changed our minds. Here it is again in slightly different form).
We got this message yesterday from a concerned reader. She felt ashamed for us. We are, in fact, grateful. We need all the […]
It’s great to be the center of attention
The Canadian Press loves us, too. This just in from the news consortium north of the border. Locals have known about this. Even so, it’s nice to have so many people around the continent talking about us.
This year’s Spoleto, which will feature more than 100 dance, music and theatrical performances, is to open with a […]
