Music: Oracle Hysterical with New Vintage Baroque

http://newvintagebaroque.com/2015/04/08/apocrypha/

What happens when fate separates a work from its creator? What meaning is gained or lost from a piece devoid of a clear history? In this concert, members of New Vintage Baroque wade into the ambiguous territory of anonymous, misattributed, and spurious works. Accompanying them on this journey will be the composing-singing-bards of Oracle Hysterical, writing companion pieces to the Passionate Pilgrim, an anonymous anthology of 20 poems once attributed to one “W. Shakespeare.” Featuring new works by Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett, Elliot Cole, and Majel Connery.
(Works not listed in program order)
Sonata a Quatour Stromenti in B-flat major, attrib. George Frideric HandelQuartet in D-minor, TWV 43:d3, Georg Philipp Telemann (formerly Handel)Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon in C-minor, attrib. Handel“The Passionate Pilgrim” (premieres)Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett, Elliot Cole, and Majel Connery
Whitebox Art Center
329 Broome Street, NYC
(Between Bowery and Chrystie)
Friday, May 8, 2015, 7:30pm

About Oracle HystericalThe Oracle Hysterical is Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett, Elliot Cole and Majel Connery. A book club and a band, OH is devoted to literature recounted through music. Its genre-crossing body of work explores new ways of narrating stories through chamber, folk and orchestral music, hip hop and opera. OH has created and performed retellings of Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, Grimm’s folktales, Euripides’ Hecuba, Melville’s Billy Budd, and other stories. Its collaborators include the Chicago Composers Orchestra, New Vintage Baroque, the Metropolis Ensemble, the Franklin Quartet, Washington Square Winds, and the Lucerne Festival Academy, where they were Spotlight Artists in 2011. 

Theater: Doctor Zhivago, the musical on Broadway

http://doctorzhivagobroadway.com/about/

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is a heartbreaking epic romance, revolving around the search for love during the final days of Czarist Russia. Raised as an aristocrat, Zhivago is a political idealist, physician, and poet whose life is tossed by the tides of history as he is torn between a life with his close childhood friend and wife, and the passionate and mysterious Lara. Zhivago, however, is not alone in his yearnings for Lara, and must compete with both revolutionaries and aristocracy alike to win the heart of the woman he cannot live without.

Music: 2015 NY Hot Jazz Festival

CUFF Film: The Real American, Director : Darya Zhuk

From online: http://cufilmfest.com/films/real-american/
The Real American

A Post-Soviet Union exchange student stops fearing American culture and starts shaving her legs.
Director : Darya Zhuk
Writer(s) : Darya Zhuk, Guy Cimbalo
Producer(s) : Viktorya Aleksanyan

Co-Producer(s) : Mitch Maxman
Director of Photography : Jessica Bennett
Editor(s) : Niv Klainer
Cast : Tamara Sevunts, John Rothman, Carolyn McCormick, Gerard Assante, Stephen Stapinski, Josephine Buldo, James Crichton, Mariah Lee

CUFF Film: Pitter Patter Goes My Heart, Director : Christoph Rainer

From online: http://cufilmfest.com/films/pitter-patter-goes-my-heart/
Pitter Patter Goes My Heart

Lisa's heart desires only one thing: a fountain of blood in the shape of a man.
Director : Christoph Rainer
Writer(s) : Christoph Rainer
Producer(s) : Elsa Kremser, Mark Szilagyi, Nikolai Gemel

Director of Photography : Georg Geutebrueck
Editor(s) : Roland Stöttinger
Production Design : Claudia Frank
Composer(s) : David Furrer
Sound Design : Simon Peter
Cast : Vicky Krieps, Michael Maertens, Max Reimann, Martina Schöne-Radunski, Tom Lass

CUFF Film: Stay Awake, Director : Jamie Sisley

From online: http://cufilmfest.com/films/stay-awake/

Stay Awake
Brothers, a mother, songs from the Seventies, Xanax, and a woman named Vicki. Stay Awake explores addiction and making sacrifices for people you love.
Director : Jamie Sisley
Writer(s) : Jamie Sisley
Producer(s) : Sarah Dorman
Executive Producer(s) : Jan and Lois Dorman
Co-Producer(s) : Tom Sveen, Ko-Rely Pi, Kristin Frost
Associate Producer(s) : Grace Shin Im, Constance Hofland & Craig Johnson, Paul and Suzy Cossette, Michael Pyon
Director of Photography : Alejandro Mejía
Editor(s) : Jamie Sisley
Production Design : Jennifer Donner, Miguel Martinez
Sound Design : Ryan Billia, Rumble Audio
Cast : Owen Campbell, David Rysdahl, Rebecca Harris, Lori Brown-Niang

For more information: www.jsisley.com/stayawake

Theater: Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at BAM, April 2015

Found online:

By Alicia Dhyana House
The revolutionary and Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906), radically changed the history of the stage by writing about the real problems in life. Ibsen’s affinity for tearing the veil off late 19th-century hypocrisies and defiantly exposing the dirty underbelly of human nature eventually garnered him the title, “Father of Modern Drama.” Ghosts, which comes to the BAM Harvey Theater April 5—May 3, tackles social conventions and their harmful consequences on domestic life, revealing a woman caught in a repressive society. It centers on widow Helene Alving who spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband.

http://bam150years.blogspot.com/2015/03/haunting-ghosts.html

Dance: Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM, April 2015

From the review:
Mark Morris Dance Group’s program at the Howard Gilman Opera House includes “Crosswalk” and “Spring Spring Spring.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/arts/dance/review-mark-morris-dance-group-at-brooklyn-academy-of-music.html?_r=0

Film: Dior and I

From the movie's web site:

Dior and I brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons’ first haute couture collection as its new artistic director—a true labor of love created by a dedicated group of collaborators. Melding the everyday, pressure- filled components of fashion with mysterious echoes from the iconic brand’s past, the film is also a colorful homage to the seamstresses who serve Simons’ vision.

http://www.diorandimovie.com/
http://www.diorandimovie.com/trailer

Theater: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Found online:

USA Today said the young actor was "a revelation, his movement, expressions and voice making the boy's terrors and his ferocious intelligence seem equally natural." 

The New York Times described the experience as "the kind of smashing Broadway debut young actors classically dream about." 

The New York Daily News said Sharp "dazzles as bright as the high wattage effects with a physical and emotionally intense star turn." 

Over all, the Hollywood Reporter said the production shows the power of theater.
"It makes us want to reconsider the world around us, without missing a single one of its infinite details," it added.

Review: http://www.dawn.com/news/1136590/curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-charms-broadway-audience