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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.
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Hilarious choreography makes for entertaining 'Pirates'
In terms of stage action, Anchorage Opera’s production of “The Pirates of Penzance” is the best I’ve ever seen. The musical satire always tends toward slapstick, but director Bill Fabris has drilled the cast to pull it off with respectable precision, never lagging nor...




