Despite rain, musical adaptation of ‘All Summer in a Day’ shines
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The show was able to combine a deeply literary text with the energetic airs of a musical theater production in a way that honored both traditions.
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Local high-schoolers create musical adaptation of Ray Bradbury short story
The two actors are rehearsing an original adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day.” The catch? They’re ninth- and 10th-graders in high school.
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‘A Fantastic Woman’ prevents breakout star from shining
One of the most unfortunate aspects of the film is that Vega’s artistic choices are limited by the undeveloped characters that surround her.
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Shared visions, conflicts in ‘A Fantastic Woman’: An interview with Sebastián Lelio and Daniela Vega
While they may disagree on how the film is experienced, they seem to have found a genuine rallying point around the limitlessness of their protagonist.
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Meryl Streep shines, but ‘The Post’ disappoints, offering convoluted, disjointed ambitions
“The Post” struggles to find a balance between the story it is really telling and its commitment to larger ideologies, such as history.
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‘The Chinese Typewriter’ and the future of the alphabet: An interview with Thomas S. Mullaney
The book is a technological history of the efforts to create a typewriter suited to a character-based writing system.
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Spacey vs. Trump: Comparing the repercussions for Presidents on screen and off
Spacey is, to some extent, paying for what he has done. It does appear that Hollywood is no longer willing to turn a blind eye to sexual violence.
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‘Requiem’: Summer Mei Ling Lee explores diaspora, repatriation in multimedia art installation
While the lines between time and place, record and feeling, art and artifact may converge and overlap, Lee’s hand never wavers.
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‘Bat Boy: The Musical’ — About Something More?
The script seems to be a strange combination of a B-grade horror movie, a Greek tragedy and a jazzy show-stopper getting put on in a haunted house. In an interview with The Daily Californian, Teddy Lake, the director of “Bat Boy,” made it clear that she wanted the show to be about something more.
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St. Vincent: Are you singing about love or loss?
The music videos are an amalgamation of liltingly beautiful color schemes and situations that appear mournful and deranged. It is clear that something is wrong.
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