Mrs. Warren’s Profession is the type of play that will haunt you. Or at least, it should. When Sir George Crofts asks Kitty Warren about marrying her daughter, Mrs. Warren says, “How do you know that the girl maynt be your own daughter?” “How do you know that that maynt be one of the fascinations […]
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Of the Warrens’ Profession
Posted: April 5, 2013 by Jesse Herwitz in Theater ThrillerTags: George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Robin Larsen, The Antaeus Company
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Songs Of Bilitis – A Tantric Literary Celebration
Posted: March 26, 2013 by Jesse Herwitz in Theater ThrillerTags: Pierre Louys, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Songs of Bilitis, The Bootleg Theater
From her inception, Bilitis has been one to seduce men. Claude Debussy scored two sets of musical odes to her, painters painted for her, and a great number of Parisian and, later, European audiences lusted and fantasized over her innocence turned lesbianism turned ardent worship of Astarte. But of them all, none more so than […]
Trainspotting at the Elephant
Posted: March 18, 2013 by Jesse Herwitz in Theater ThrillerTags: addiction, AJ Jones, David Agranov, Elephant Theatre, Elizabeth Knowelden, Harry Gibson, heroin, Irvine Welsh, Justin Zachary, seat of your pants production company, Trainspotting
Much like heroin, youth is an opiate by which we convince ourselves that the worlds we create in our minds are the same ones that we actually live in. It is not until we grow older, out of youth, that we realize they really were. A young man, Mark, rises from a ‘strange bed,’ waking […]
A Family Thing [Theater Review]
Posted: March 12, 2013 by Jesse Herwitz in Theater ThrillerTags: A Family Thing, Andrea Grano, Chris Fields, Darryl Stephens, Echo Theatre Company, Elizabeth Regen, Gary Lennon, Johnny Messner, Off-Broadway, Saverio Guerra, Sean Wing
A Family Thing is a play about how three brothers and their respective lovers attempt to create a family out of the ones they were given. Jimmy is coming home from prison after serving years for armed robbery and Sean and Frank spend a big chunk of their time trying to arm themselves in anticipation […]
Walking The Tightrope: A Theatre-goer’s experience (Part 2)
Posted: February 18, 2013 by Jesse Herwitz in Events - On the Town, Theater ThrillerTags: Debbie Devine, Jay McAdams, LAB24, Mark Bramhall, Mike Kenny, Paige Lindsey White, Tony Duran, Walking The Tightrope. 24th Street Theatre
The ocean is a far thirteen miles from West Adams. Far from 24th street near Hoover where at a building that once housed horses is now the home of the 24th Street Theatre. Where within that theatre the opening night and West Coast premiere of Mike Kenny’s Walking the Tightrope is set to begin. “It’s not your typical […]
Walking The Tightrope : A Review (Part 1)
Posted: February 1, 2013 by Jesse Herwitz in Events - On the Town, Theater ThrillerTags: 24TH STreet Theatre, Debbie Devine, Mark Bramhall, Paige Lindsey White, Tony Duran, Walking The Tightrope. Mike Kenny
By Jesse Herwitz Victor Hugo once wrote that the ‘one spectacle grander than the sea is the interior of the soul.’ If there is a place where that spectacle is being staged, where the sea meets the soul, then the characters of Mike Kenny’s ‘Walking the Tightrope’ are its permanent resident actors. Subject to a […]
Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance – Film Preview
Posted: December 25, 2012 by Jesse Herwitz in Film Freaks, PreviewTags: American Masters, Ballet, Gerald Arpino, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, Mandy Patinkin, PBS, Robert Joffrey, The Joffrey
Among the fine arts there have always been two philosophies, two schools of thought, two warring camps: the traditionalists and the modernists. The former prefers this production of that. The latter’s costume design is too much one way. Inherent in its performance, ballet is very much a traditional form of dance with old traditions in appearance […]
If Only Everyone [Film Review]
Posted: December 20, 2012 by Jesse Herwitz in Film FreaksTags: Academy Awards, Arpa International Film Festival, Artsakh, If Only Everyone, Michael Poghosian, Nagorno-Karabakh
By Jesse Herwitz Natalya Belyauskene’s ‘If Only Everyone’ begins with the image of an airplane flying. It is an image that in a film rich with symbolism and redemption may carry the most significant statement. That is, that there are no borders in the sky. That, in some idealized way, the earth and its varied […]
Azad Film Review – Mayak and the Reckoning of a Family’s Past in Diaspora
Posted: December 11, 2012 by Jesse Herwitz in Events - On the Town, Film FreaksTags: armenian, Arpa, Arpa Film Festival, Azad, film festival, NIcolas Tackian, Review
Azad begins with an old man sitting in a bathtub, a young man, his grandson, by his side for him for whatever he needs. It is an image that transcends familiar bonds. The youth looking at his culture’s past, the elder at his younger self, remembering all he had to overcome in order to grow […]
15th Annual Arpa International Film Festival – In the Courtyard of the Egyptian
Posted: December 10, 2012 by Jesse Herwitz in Events - On the Town, Film FreaksWritten by Jesse Herwitz Opening night for the 15th Annual Arpa International Film Festival began last Thursday with the premiere of Gor Kirakosian’s ‘Lost & Found in Armenia.’ With over 800 members in attendance, filling both Rigler and Spielberg Theater’s to capacity, it was nothing short of spectacular. The crowd roared with applause when the […]