Two new musicals open on Broadway, a film composer's string quartets are showcased, a jazz legend celebrates his 80th and new music is presented over 12 hours in Los Angeles. These are the events selected for this week's BEST...
It's the first full week in November and we are quickly working ourselves to the end of the year. Which means we have some very interesting Best Bets coming up and this week is no exception. Here are the...
"We talk a lot about path dependency in the arts, and you never change the path unless you actually try something new."
MasterVoices opens their season with a concert version of the Gershwin's Strike Up the Band
"It means more than just you're not alone. It means you're not alone in your desires, your dreams, your wishes, your hopes. I've got them, too. So let's both dream together."
"As much as you want to make it be about me, there's just too many ways in which it isn't."
"Yet the questions must continue to be posed. The audience must continue to be involved."
"If people are able to walk away talking about their own identity as well as understanding a little portion of this Latino family's journey, I think that would be really cool."
"I mean, of all the places to do this show, Los Angeles is probably the right place. Just because of it being about a movie director in a movie studio."
"I can't say we're being completely ourselves. We're being our heightened selves because we're on stage in front of an audience. But we are as ourselves as we can be."