The poignancy of his acting, this tall man with long arms at a music stand, the agony in his big voice, had the audience riveted as he brought to life Scheer’s beautiful lyrics drawn from Lewin’s diary with Heggie’s music. Continue reading “Stunning” Premieres from Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer at Music of Remembrance
There’s a lot to laugh about in the comedy-musical The Wisemen (at ACT Theatre through December 22): the story of the Wisemen Law Firm (Goldberg, Frankenstein, and Murray) is an extended riff on “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” focusing in this instance on what you’ve been told about the Nativity. Continue reading Calling in “The Wisemen” on a Wayward Spirit of Christmas
That’s Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, and Michael Chabon, who have all blurbed for Ben Marcus’s latest novel, The Flame Alphabet. Here’s Chabon’s outburst after reading the book: “Echoes of Ballard’s insanely sane narrators, echoes of Kafka’s terrible gift for metaphor, echoes of David Lynch, William Burroughs, Robert Walser, Bruno Schulz and Mary Shelley: a world of echoes and re-echoes—I mean our world—out of which the sanely insane genius of Ben Marcus somehow manages to wrest something new and unheard of.” Continue reading Two Jonathans & a Chabon Are Fired Up About The Flame Alphabet
