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‘Ask questions. Don’t Provide Answers: Composer Jake Heggie on 25 Years of Dead Man Walking | Opera

‘Ask questions. Don’t Provide Answers: Composer Jake Heggie on 25 Years of Dead Man Walking | Opera

💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Capital punishment,Stage 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: 'forYou are so young!” Julie Andrews shouted on opening night of Dead Man Walking, 25 years ago at the San Francisco Opera. I made my way to her through the crowded hall to introduce myself as the composer of the opera, fearing that this would be my only chance to meet my first goddess. My first singing nun.Was I that young? It was October 7, 2000. I was 39 years old and this was my first opera, the “big…
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Kerry Godliman: Bandwidth Review – After Life Star in Gorgeous Spleen Form | comedy

Kerry Godliman: Bandwidth Review – After Life Star in Gorgeous Spleen Form | comedy

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Comedy,Kerry Godliman,Stage,Comedy,Culture,Menopause ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: TSpeaking of hot flashes: Menopause and pre-menopause have in a short time gone from being “the great unmentionable” to a favorite subject of midlife female comics. Following Bridget Christie, whose treatment of the subject evolved into a hit TV series, and Desiree Burch's middle-aged heartfelt cry on this year's Fringe, Kerry Godliman comes with her own take on the hormonal chaos and entering "hag territory." If its subject no longer arrives with the shock of the new, Bandwidth is marked…
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Jennifer Walton: Girls Review – An Elegant and Painful Beginning | music

Jennifer Walton: Girls Review – An Elegant and Painful Beginning | music

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Music,Culture,Experimental music,Pop and rock 📌 Main takeaway: M"ISS America," the centerpiece of Jennifer Walton's elegant and haunting debut record, sits us in a hotel room near JFK Airport, watching as Walton learns that her father has been diagnosed with cancer. The Sunderland-born musician was touring the US for the first time, playing drums with indie band Kero Kero Bonito, and now sadness clouded everything. A stuttering piano and muted strings accompany gothic messages from the tour van: “Cattle ranch and ruined shack/Shopping mall, drug deal, and panic…
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Lily Allen: West End Girl – A stunning autopsy of infidelity | Lily Allen

Lily Allen: West End Girl – A stunning autopsy of infidelity | Lily Allen

🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Lily Allen,Music,Culture,Pop and rock 📌 Key idea: IIt's been seven years since Lily Allen last released an album. No Shame was nominated for a Mercury Prize and reviewed much better than 2014's Sheezus - not least by Allen herself - but it was also her lowest-selling album to date. You could have taken that as evidence of pop's progress. In Britain, 2018 was the year in which George Ezra, Jess Glynn and Ed Sheeran, the well-mannered boy and girl, ruled. Allen seemed to be a symbol of…
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الليلة التلفزيونية: عاد نورمان ريدوس لمحاربة نهاية العالم من الزومبي | television

الليلة التلفزيونية: عاد نورمان ريدوس لمحاربة نهاية العالم من الزومبي | television

✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Film,The Walking Dead,Alan Partridge,Graham Norton,Kim Kardashian,Bryan Cranston,Kathryn Bigelow,Ben Stiller,John Carpenter 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Holly Richardson Human resources 9pm on Channel 5 How are you? إنه آلان (بارتريدج) Human resources Southwest Southwest 💬 Share your opinion below! #️⃣ #الليلة #التلفزيونية #عاد #نورمان #ريدوس #لمحاربة #نهاية #العالم #من #الزومبي #television
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Stiller & Meara Review: Nothing’s Lost – Ben Stiller’s poignant study of the price his family paid for the entertainment industry | film

Stiller & Meara Review: Nothing’s Lost – Ben Stiller’s poignant study of the price his family paid for the entertainment industry | film

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Documentary films,Ben Stiller,Comedy films,TV comedy,Seinfeld,Parents and parenting,Comedy,Culture,Family,Life and style,Television,Television & radio,US television 💡 Key idea: forProjectSyndicate en Stiller has painted an unexpectedly sweet, tender, and poignant portrait of his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara—and perhaps of himself, too, without quite realizing it. His mother and father were hard-working comedians, had a very successful TV double act in the 1960s and 1970s and a long marriage. This has been the source of much material, based on the quarrels and tensions to which Ben and his sister Amy…
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This Is All Folk: Curator and Mythology Designer Marina Warner Creates Space for Stories | art

This Is All Folk: Curator and Mythology Designer Marina Warner Creates Space for Stories | art

🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Art,Art and design,Culture,Exhibitions,Folklore and mythology,Paula Rego ✅ Key idea: MAriana Warner has spent her life studying the cultural and psychological uses of fairy tales, whether about fairies, ghosts, or the lives of saints. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that The Shelter of Stories, a new exhibition curated by the leading mythology designer, has plenty of spine-tingling as well as fantasies-tickling.There are artworks inspired by alternative folkloric worlds by major contemporary artists such as Paola Rego or Kiki Smith, while older paintings confront spiritual or social horrors.…
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Obstacles Review – A tender but difficult account of an odd couple’s connection | stage

Obstacles Review – A tender but difficult account of an odd couple’s connection | stage

🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Birmingham Rep,Deafness and hearing loss 💡 Key idea: forArrier(s) is a strange love story about a couple with very different experiences of the world. Alana (Em Prendergast) is hearing, while Katie (Zoë McWhinney) is deaf. Created by Deafinitely Theatre, which blends British Sign Language and spoken English, the play moves from the initial awkwardness of their first meeting at a children's party, through Alana's early mistakes, to a big, heartfelt portrait of the highs and lows of their relationship.Eloise Pennycott's script unfolds episodically: one year, Alana struggles…
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‘I Changed Ballet’: Misty Copeland Takes Her Final Bow in Retirement Show | Ballet

‘I Changed Ballet’: Misty Copeland Takes Her Final Bow in Retirement Show | Ballet

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Ballet,New York,US news,Dance 💡 Key idea: Misty Copeland took one last spin on her pointy-toed shoes Wednesday night, filled with gold sparkles and bouquets of flowers, as she retired from American Ballet Theater after a pioneering career in which she became an ambassador for diversity in the predominantly white arts field.Copeland, who a decade ago became the first black principal dancer in the company's 75-year history, was honored at a star-studded fall gala at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Oprah Winfrey and Debbie Allen were among those…
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TV TONIGHT: Lauren Lyle heads to New Zealand in a stressful new thriller | television

TV TONIGHT: Lauren Lyle heads to New Zealand in a stressful new thriller | television

✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,TV crime drama,TV comedy,Culture,Tom Hollander,Dragons' Den,Taskmaster,Reece Shearsmith 📌 Main takeaway: ridge9pm on BBC TwoKaren Berry's Lauren Lyle stumbles into the role of another protagonist in this tense psychological thriller. Mia is an anesthesiologist and also an alcoholic. After an event at the hospital threatens her career, she makes a last-minute decision to attend her estranged sister's wedding in New Zealand. Worse still, when she boards the plane, she receives a panicked voicemail from her brother — and arrives to find her dead, having fallen…
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