Around New York High Line – disused railway line turned into an urban park above the streets of the city 32 mile walk around the shoreline of Manhattan – totally worth the effort Art Picasso and Marie-Marie-Thérèse , L’Amour Fou (The Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea) – a visual love letter Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from [...]
Posts Tagged ‘theatre’
My May 2011
Posted in Diary, tagged art, books, movies, music, my diary, theatre on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jerusalem
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth, Mark Rylance, theatre, William Blake on May 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In England’s green & pleasant Land” The last verse of Jerusalem by Willam Blake Last year I saw Mark Rylance give a virtuoso performance as Valere in La Bête when he came on stage and [...]
My April 2011
Posted in Diary, tagged art, books, movies, music, my diary, theatre on May 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Books The Hunger Games trilogy (Suzanne Collins) : intelligent young adult books which topically highlight the impact of war and violence on children Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule The World (William Cohan): for those interested in finance, an absorbing 600+ pages on the investment bank One of Our Thursdays is Missing [...]
My March 2011
Posted in Diary, tagged art, books, movies, music, my diary, theatre on April 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Art German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse (MOMA) : has become one of my all-time favourite exhibitions Infinite Variety : Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts (American Folk Art Museum) : quilts as modern art Books Super Sad True Love Story (Gary Shteyngart) : super sad and frightening view of a future digital world Suits: [...]
My January 2011
Posted in Diary, tagged books, lectures, movies, my diary, theatre on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Art Abstract Expressionist New York (MOMA) : a beautiful expression of the energy of the city Books A History of the World in 100 Objects (Neil MacGregor) : see the world in a new way Lords of Finance (Liaquat Ahamed) : understand the world of today How to Read the Air (Dinaw Mengestu) : how [...]
La Bête
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged David Hirson, David Hyde Pierce, Joanna Lumley, La Bête, Mark Rylance, theatre on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not often you get to see a modern play written in verse. La Bête is set in the French court of 1654 but still seems relevant to today’s world of radio shock jocks, partisan talking heads, non-stop blogosphere and the ascendance of reality TV. David Hirson‘s play sets Elomire, leader of the high-brow royal [...]
Make ‘em laugh
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged Shakespeare, Singing in the Rain, The Globe, The Merry Wives of Windsor, theatre on November 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The company of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre were in New York to perform The Merry Wives of Windsor and put on a production that lived up to the merriness in the title. Harold Bloom, in his book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, says he shares AC Bradley’s indignation about the play: “[Falstaff is] baffled, duped, [...]
Handless Christopher Walken
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged A Behanding in Spokane, Broadway, Christopher Walken, Martin McDonagh, theatre on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this interview, Christopher Walken says he told his agent that he wanted to play a wholesome family man. Instead, in A Behanding in Spokane he stars as one-handed Carmichael, a racist homophobe with a very macabre hobby. As a birthday treat, I was lucky enough to see Walken in his first appearance on Broadway [...]
The Tempest
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged BAM, Shakespeare, The Tempest, theatre on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The design of the new production of The Tempest at the Brooklyn Academy of Music looks fantastic according to this photo in the New York Times; and this is a review from The New Yorker. I am still unsure whether they think this is a good production but the piece is headlined Big Magic so [...]
