The News Review:
- Fighting the Ghost of Festivals Past
- Houston Shakespeare Festival takes on bad-boy bard
- More Chinese Films Withdrawn in Melbourne Festival Protest
Fighting the Ghost of Festivals Past
New York Times
Forty years ago with Woodstock New York gave the world what many call the archetype of the outdoor rock festival. In the last decade though as musical lollapaloozas have sprouted around the country the region has largely missed out. ne event after another has either been scrapped early or flamed out; for promoters the list is like a litany of war dead:.
Houston Shakespeare Festival takes on bad-boy bard
Houston Chronicle
day of performance; 713-533-3276 Forget that he’s the world’s greatest playwright. As the Houston Shakespeare Festival opens its productions of Twelfth Night and Pericles this weekend we salute the sensational scandalous crowd-pleasing Shakespeare master of saucy situations and rowdy rejoinders. Gals will be guys?Viola heroine of Twelfth Night spends most of her time dressed as a boy. n her gender-bending spree as Cesario she’s hired by the Duke rsino as his page carrying his love letters to Countess livia — who won’t give rsino a tumble but who falls for “Cesario.
More Chinese Films Withdrawn in Melbourne Festival Protest
New York Times
css);Arts Briefly – More Chinese Films Withdrawn in Melbourne Festival Protest – NYTimes. n Thursday organizers of the Australian festival said that the makers of “YB Box” a Chinese documentary; “Miao Miao” a Hong Kong-Taiwan romance; and “The Moss” a Hong Kong black comedy had withdrawn their films following the withdrawals of the short film “Cry Me a River” by Jia Zhangke and the feature film “Perfect Life” by Emily Tang. 8 the festival is scheduled to host Ms. Kadeer a former businesswoman whom the Chinese government has blamed for inciting violence between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese; Ms.
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