Well, hello, President Jackson.
There is an upside-down stuffed crocodile body hanging to the right, a faux red fox on the piano on the stage, and what looks like a veiled werewolf head to the left. Blood-red velvet curtains are draped around the walls, and chandeliers hang from various positions on the ceiling. The stage has a strong western look, but ironically, fancy portraits of men in old-fashioned clothing line the walls. Then a man wearing black skinny jeans walks out after a song from the ensemble, addresses the audience, curses, and starts singing a rock song.
This man is Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States. [click to continue…]
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The Public Theater
The unusual layout of the room immediately catches the eye. The theater is a black box, with two adjacent sides of the room filled with seats for the audience. The other two sides of the theater form the “V” shaped stage, although it is not really a stage because it is not raised up; it is a performance area. The show starts, and jokes are told, scenery is moved to frame certain parts of the stage, and accents are expertly employed by the actors. Later, the audience is almost hypnotized for over 10 minutes with pure silence while a corpse is moved all around the stage in what seems like a ritual. In reality, this “ritual” is the embalming of a famous Russian leader.
Lenin’s Embalmers, a new dark comedy at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, is a historical play surrounding the rise and downfall of two men, Boris (Scott Sowers) and Vlad (Zach Grenier), who were chosen to embalm Vladimir Lenin, a Russian communist politician and revolutionary leader, in 1924. [click to continue…]
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Johnny Depp and Tim Burton.
Getting off the escalators on the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art, the difference in mood of this exhibition compared to the permanent collection is quite evident. In front of you is a statue of a huge creature with its mouth open; to enter the Tim Burton exhibition, you walk through the jaws of this colorful monster.
Tim Burton, known for mixing quirky fairytales with dark themes, is a director, writer, and producer of many popular movies of our time, such as Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Sleepy Hollow. His more recent films have been twists on classic stories such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, and Alice in Wonderland (which opens this March). [click to continue…]
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