Archive: Arts & Entertainment

The Kitchen Theatre Company’s KITCHEN COUNTER CULTURE series, featuring cutting-edge, outside-the-box work by guest artists from around the country, continues in May with another not-to-be missed event.  Slam poet and stand-up comic Regie Cabico will perform at the Kitchen Theatre for three performances only—May 15, 16 and 17.  UNBUCKLED, UNCENSORED traces Cabico’s orbit from Catholic family roots and dreams of Broadway musicals to spoken word slams.  His Filipino background and queer identity are explored in this wildly funny, outrageous piece.

Single tickets to all 2009 Hangar Theatre performances will go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 1 at 10 a.m.  The Mainstage season opens with Dirty Blonde, a jubilant, warm-hearted comedy with music that explores the life story of the American icon Mae West as related by two of her most adoring fans and unlikely lovers. Tony award nominee Emily Skinner will star in this regional premiere directed by Hangar Theatre artistic director Peter Flynn.

Then, from June 18 to July 4, the lyrical Caribbean musical Once on This Island will captivate and charm the entire family. Young love sought and lost, fanciful story-telling, and inspired song and dance make this a theatre experience not to be missed.

Aurora, New York – The Wells College Arts & Lecture Series welcomes playwright Lanna Joffrey and “Valiant” to campus on Saturday evening, May 2. The play will be presented in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall, at 7:30 pm.

Adapted by Lanna Joffrey from Sally Hayton-Keeva’s book Valiant Women in War and Exile, the play “Valiant” is a documentary theatre piece based on interviews with women from Japan, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Russia, the United States, Armenia, Hungary, El Salvador, and the Philippines. Whether victim, soldier, or peacemaker, these women have fought, struggled, and survived. “Valiant” explores the causes and consequences of war, and asks the question: “Can we redeem ourselves?”

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SMART TALK
by Dr. Manda Rynne

BE SURE AND GIVE HIM MY BEST:  Honest Al, of Johnson's Used Car's here in Unberbelly, Texas, loves to end conversations in this way.  But then, he also says he'll try and get you the best deal - "Honest.  Really.  I ain't kidding!"  He also wears those garish sport jackets.

At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we researched the possibility of a link between poor taste in language and cheap looking taste in clothing and found none.  Even Hemingway used try and.  We think this use of and instead of to comes from our friends the Brits, who don't know the difference between that and which, either.  Some of them even think the tilter at windmills was Don Quiksut.

We can do better.  Be sure to speak English as if it were your first language, and try to sound smart and look literate.  "Sure" and "try" always - no exceptions - imply another, following, verb.  By themselves, they have little meaning and no clarity.  Be sure to speak and try to sound smart are single tasks.  Why  try to make them sound like two?

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The Hangar Theatre announced the cast for its summer production of Claudia Shear's Dirty Blonde Monday.   Carbonell award winning artistic director Peter Flynn directs the play, to run June 3-13 at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York.

 

Tony award nominee Emily Skinner (Side Show, Dinner at Eight, The Full Monty, and Jekyll & Hyde) leads the cast that also includes Joe Kinosian and Kevin Carolan. Skinner plays the legendary actress Mae West whose wit and audacity made her America's first sex symbol.

 

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SMART TALK
by Dr. Laconia Crisp


NO PARKING ANY TIME:  Word has reached us at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired that the nearby village of Deer Crossing is erecting signs that advertise, well, linguistic impairment.

No Parking Any Time is no improvement over No Parking.  After all, since when did No Parking mean you could park there at, say three in the morning?  As the tee shirt says, What part of NO don't you understand?

To the linguistically impaired, No Parking Any Time has any redundancy's seductive attraction: twice the words.  Like the pompous official who describes a car as traveling at a high rate of speed instead of going fast, the sign maker may hope to sound like a lawyer.

At the Institute, we show our patients that using bloated language impresses only those even more ignorant.

The prizewinner, however, is a real "Wet Paint" sign we saw with the helpful additional information, Applied With Paint Applicators.

Food for thought there.

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ITHACA, NEW YORK -- In celebration of the 90th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth and the 20th anniversary season at the Cornell University Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, the Schwartz Center is pleased to present as its 2008-09 season finale the regional premiere of Bernstein's Mass.

This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to see this rarely produced and enormous musical theatre piece fully staged. Mass is a collaboration between Cornell's Departments of Music and Theatre, Film and Dance. It will be performed one week only (April 21-26).

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