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REVIEW: THE LAST OF HIS KIND
Call "The Last of His Kind" slow, talky, unfinished and - as of the preview on May 9 - under rehearsed. But it does make you think.
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REVIEW: 'Damnation of Faust'
Tedious and declamatory, Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust" presents a problem for programmers and listeners alike. It is cut and rearranged, staged as an opera, presented as a grand symphony with chorus and soloist, and most often heard in a few well-known excerpts that rise above the majority of the...
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REVIEW: 'When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?'
Mark Mcdoff's increasingly vintage drama "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder" is about people's disinclination to make a change, even for the better, except under duress. UAA Theatre's gripping production keeps us glued to the plot long enough to let that critical point strike home.
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Review: UAA New Dances
Fifty performers presenting 10 new choreographic works are featured in this year's "New Dances" showcase at the University of Alaska Anchorage Mainstage.
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REVIEW: 'MONUMENTS'
Amy Seiwert has been touted as one of the most promising up-and-coming choreographers on the west coast. On Friday, Anchorage dance fans could judge for themselves as Alaska Dance Theatre premiered her latest work, "Monuments," as part of its "Intersections" program.
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Unitarian choir to premiere new work Saturday
The choir of the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Church - one of the newer ones in Anchorage, we hear - will present its first-ever concert, "When the Spirit Says Sing," at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 13.
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Reviews: "Dead Man's Cell Phone" and "A Gulag Mouse."
Two newish plays went on stage in Anchorage last month, one of which will stick with me for a while.




