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MAR

Review: Joffrey Ballet's "Romeo & Juliet"

By Tiffany Kuan

The Joffrey Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet. Photo by Cheryl Mann

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Dance

Beyond The 805

The Joffrey Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is a dynamic, contemporary take on the classic ballet. From the various costumes and settings spanning the 1930s, 1950s, and 1990s to the contemporary twists to the ballet choreography, watching Joffrey Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet is a refreshing and captivating experience.

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MAR

Artists Opening: Christine Leong & Andrea Vargas

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Christine Leong & Andrea Vargas

March 15 - May 13, 2018

Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA

Christine Leongs Mountains in Blue

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MAR

Review: FLAX’s The Dialectic of the Stars Bodies 2

By Allyson N. Adams

Review

Dance

Beyond The 805

The penultimate evening of FLAX’s The Dialectic of the Stars Bodies2 features choreographer and dancer Noé Soulier. Fabien Danesi, the curator of the series, describes LA as “both cinematographic and paradisiac, but also artificial”. His inspiration for The Dialectic of the stars draws a star in Los Angeles: a place of contradiction, hallucination and mystery, at once “political and poetic.” I keep his portrait of Los Angeles at the forefront as he introduces Soulier.

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MAR

8 Facts About A Remarkable Young Man.

By Society 805 Staff Writer

On Wikipedia, it mentions that Ethan Bortnick has 6 occupations, they are a pianist, singer, actor, songwriter, composer, and comedian, and he is only 17 years old!! He has accomplished more things in his seventeen years than most people in a lifetime and I have a feeling that he is only just getting started.

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FEB

Review: ETC’s The City of Conversation

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

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Wrongs of the Righteous

Anthony Giardina’s timely play, The City of Conversation, now playing at Santa Barbara’s ETC, traces the story of a fictional Washington D.C. political doyen, Hester Ferris, pushing American politics Pamela Harriman-style, behind the scenes in her dining and drawing rooms, across four decades and many more presidential regimes. It is in many ways a difficult play to pull off, in spite of its many funny lines, and pertinent content.

This ETC production fairs better than most, in large part thanks to Sharon Lawrence’s superb rendering of Hester Ferris, its lead character. In a sense, the main reason to watch this play is to see Lawrence work her magic.

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FEB

Review: This Random World

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

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Steven Dietz's This Random World at SPTC

Santa Paula Theatre Center kicks off its 2018 season with a wonderfully good production of Steven Dietz's This Random World. SPTC produced Dietz's Becky's New Car last season as well; but these are two very different plays with little in common except Dietz's genius for fascinating female parts; a beautifully controlled, understated sense of humor; terrific writing; and Dietz's particularly good-hearted, slightly off-kilter somewhat philosophical bent.

Scott Blanchard (L) and Aileen-Marie (R)

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FEB

Art Review: Vonder Gray at WAV

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Art Review

Vonder Gray at WAV

Vonder Gray's exhibition of new work at the WAV is an important show for this artist, the WAV and the greater Ventura art community. Continuing her recent forays into improvisational abstraction, featuring large, sometimes unstretched, paintings on canvas, the new work is more open, expansive, confident, and larger in conception.

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JAN

Ligia Lewis' minor matter at REDCAT

By Allyson N. Adams

Dance

Beyond The 805

The dance starts and ends with black, the absence or complete absorption of visible light. What happens in between is red; as the second installation of a three part performance, minor matter is a fervent outpouring of joy giving life to rage, rage to joy.

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NOV

Review: Perlmutter’s Directing Hamlet

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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First, let us hear it for doing new theatre, new scripts, producing local playwrights’ new plays, or more courageously yet, workshopping new plays. Plays do not bloom, full-grown, out of the head of Zeus. As they say in Silicon Valley, if you are not doing something new, you have no future.

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NOV

Review: Taking Sides

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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Rubicon Theatre in Ventura’s downtown cultural district is doing Sir Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides through 12 November 2017. Harwood did The Pianist and has repeatedly shown interest in World War II-related moral dilemmas. Taking Sides fits right in. It’s basically a military tribunal “trial” by the American occupation command in Berlin of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the great German conductor who stayed in Nazi Germany throughout the Nazi era and World War II.

Patrick Vest as Major Arnold, Tara Donovan as Emmi Straube and Peter Van Norden as German composer Wilhelm Furtwängler in Taking Sides by Academy Award-Winner Sir Ronald Harwood and directed by Ovation Award-winner Stephanie Coltrin.
Photo Credit: Josh and Veronica Slavin

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