{"id":10541,"date":"2020-09-11T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalattache.co\/?p=10541"},"modified":"2021-01-04T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:43:07","slug":"best-bets-at-home-september-11th-september-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalattache.co\/2020\/09\/11\/best-bets-at-home-september-11th-september-13th\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Bets at Home: September 11th – September 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The dog days of summer are definitely over. We don’t just have a lot of options for you, we have truly terrific options for you. This week’s Best Bets at Home: September 11th – September 13th include plays and play readings, an opera recital from Germany, two dance performances, some galas and concerts and one of the Broadway community’s most entertaining and surprising events: Miscast<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have links in the title for most of the events we have listed here. That will make it easy for you to find your way directly to these exciting performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let’s get to it. Here are your Best Bets at Home: September 11th – September 13th:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sal Lopez in “This Is a Man’s World” (Photo by Stephen Mihalek<\/em>\/Courtesy of Latino Theater Company)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This Is a Man’s World<\/a><\/em><\/strong> – Latino Theater Company – Now – September 17th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Los Angeles-based Latino Theater Company’s ongoing series of streaming archived performances, this week they have added Sal Lopez’s one-person show This Is a Man’s World<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The play opened in 2015 and takes a look at masculinity. Lopez combines monologue and music to relay the important events in his life. These include the Watts Riots, falling in love and the birth of his son. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Is a Man’s World<\/em> was directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Table of Silence Project” (Photo by Terri Gold\/Courtesy Buglisi Dance Theatre)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Table of Silence Project 9\/11<\/a><\/em><\/strong> – <\/em><\/strong>Buglisi Dance Theatre and Lincoln Center – September 11th – 7:55 AM EDT\/4:55 AM PDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the tenth anniversary of the 9\/11 tragedy in 2011, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Artistic Director of Buglisi Dance Theatre, created Table of Silence Project 9\/11<\/em>. The work found over 150 dancers gradually making their way to Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza. The plaintive call of a conch shell brings them together as music from a flute, bass drums, a trumpet, bells and the sounds of a chorus fill the space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three of her collaborators – Composer\/Music Director Daniel Bernard Roumain, spoken-word poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and Buglisi Dance Theatre Co-Founder\/Principal Dancer Terese Capucilli – have re-worked Table of Silence Project 9\/11<\/em> for 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be a new Prologue<\/em> which will feature dancers from Buglisi Dance Theatre, Ailey II, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Ballet Hisp\u00e1nico’s BHdos, The Juilliard School, Lim\u00f3n Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company. In addition to other dancers from the NYC community, violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and poet Joseph will be joining this year’s performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire event will be streamed live with the following program:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Prologue,<\/em> performed live from Lincoln Center; welcome remarks from industry leaders; an excerpt from Buglisi’s Requiem<\/em>, (choreographed in 2001 as an immediate response to the events of 9\/11); the World Premiere of \u00c9tudes,<\/em> a new three-minute film featuring more than 100 dancers from around the world who have been inspired by the Table of Silence Project 9\/11<\/em> to create and submit small scale works recorded during the month of August and, finally, the full presentation of the 2019 Table of Silence Project 9\/11<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you cannot watch the event live, it will be available on-demand after its premiere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda Green (Courtesy of Musical Theatre International)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Green AF in Q<\/a><\/em><\/strong> – Birdland – September 11th – 7:00 PM EDT\/4:00 PM PDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don’t know Amanda Green by name, you might be familiar with some of her work. She wrote the lyrics for the musical High Fidelity<\/em>; lyrics with Lin-Manuel Miranda for Bring It On: The Musical<\/em>; music with Trey Anastasio and lyrics for Hands on a Hardbody<\/em>; additional material for the 2019 revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate<\/em> and additional lyrics for the 2015 revival of On the Twentieth Century<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green has a distinct connection to the last musical. Her father, the late Adolph Green, co-wrote the music and lyrics for On the Twentieth Century<\/em> with his long-time writing partner Betty Comden. In the interest of being fair to both parents, her mother was the late Phyllis Newman, a Tony Award winner for her performance in the musical Subways Are For Sleeping<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of the Radio Free Birdland!<\/em> concerts filmed at the venue without an audience, Green performs along with her guests singer Natalie Douglas, singer\/songwriter Curtis Moore and drummer Sean McDaniel. The music director is James Sampliner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She’s working on a couple new musicals – including one with Jason Robert Brown and Billy Crystal. Perhaps there will be previews of the new material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets are $23.50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William Bracewell and Francesca Hayward in “Romeo and Juliet” (Photo Courtesy of PBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet<\/em><\/strong> – Great Performances PBS – September 11th (Check local listings)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1965 legendary choreographer Kenneth MacMillan debuted his new ballet, Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, with the Royal Ballet. It’s Shakespeare’s classic tale danced to the music of composer Sergei Prokofiev. It received phenomenal reviews and the company, which featured Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, gave 43 curtain calls during the 40-minute standing ovation at the ballet’s completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this film airing on Great Performances, the ballet leaves the stage and takes place in and around multiple locations and sets in Budapest, Hungary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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