http://roverarts.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 May 2008 21:38:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Baroness and the Pig by Michael Mackenzie Directed by Catherine Bourgeois Imago Theatre May 6 – 18, 2008 Reviewed by Marianne Ackerman Plays written for audiences steeped in the aesthetics of film are unfathomably rare. The Baroness and the Pig is such a play. An episodic narrative structure unfolds through a series ... http://roverarts.com/2008/05/when-pictures-give-blood/ CD REVIEW Gogol Bordello’s Super Taranta (2007) Pile a sauna with beer and mushrooms, then drink a case of wine; borrow some underwear and wait for a half-naked dancing bear to crawl out of a vent overhead. He will be Eugene Hutz, his moustache will be rich and full, and you will ... http://roverarts.com/2008/05/gypsy-punk/ Where once they held one of the many crowns of the electronic music scene, the long departed and almost forgotten Groove Armada return with the album Soundboy Rock to stake their claim once again in a genre fickly found at a state of perma-renaissance. At the turn of the century Groove ... http://roverarts.com/2008/03/soundboy-rock-by-groove-armada/ By Louis Rastelli Insomniac Press 328 pages ISBN978-1-897178-49-2 $21.95 Reviewed by Marianne Ackerman In the works of Mordecai Richler, Trevanian and Michel Tremblay, Montreal’s Blvd. St. Laurent appears as an immigrant’s Via Dolorosa, where ambitious upstarts vie with petty criminals for trade. How times have changed. These days, The Main offers sweat ... http://roverarts.com/2008/03/a-fine-ending/ Directed: Mike Nichols Written by: Patrick Marber Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen 2004 The seductively innocent Alice bounds naively down a busy London street when she is spotted from a far by the achingly hapless Daniel. Gazes are locked and thanks to cupid's arrow, or rather a rogue London ... http://roverarts.com/2008/03/closer/ Reviewed by Miguel Syjuco. The hum and tweets of the orchestra warming. A backstage announcement: “Maestro Levine to the pit, please.” The audience, spectacled, silver-haired, settles into seats. The Lincoln Centre’s proscenium still darkened. Spectators munch Becel-bronzed popcorn. Sip pop from huge glasses. Someone picks daintily at his gooey nachos. Could ... http://roverarts.com/2008/03/tristan-und-isolde-%e2%80%93-live-in-hd-at-the-cinema/