If you didn’t know better, the name Radium Girls might conjure up visions of something light-hearted: a team of superheroes, maybe, with radioactive capes, or a line of glowing Rockettes. The far weightier truth is that it refers to women who, in the early 20th century, suffered and, sometimes, died while performing work they were assured was perfectly safe.
Arts exhibitions and performances have returned in full swing to West Michigan. This season, there’s absolutely no shortage of concerts, symphonies, plays, musicals, ballet, visual arts and beyond.
The world premiere of a ground-breaking new musical will take the stage at the Dormouse Theatre in Kalamazoo this month. “The Dead Memoirs” is the latest project from Western Michigan University MFA fiction student K.D. Battle, and music arranger Noah Mercil. Based on the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Brazilian author Machado de Assis, the play brings diverse musical influences, and fast-paced storytelling to the timeless, classic tale.
Is there anything as romantic as classical ballet? Deos Contemporary Ballet reminds us Victorian literature, born of the same historical period, provides the perfect fodder for a new, brilliantly conceived storybook ballet with “Jane Eyre”, performed this weekend at St. Cecilia Music Center.
To say the relationship between dance and music is an intimate one is to state the obvious, but to fully experience how nuanced movement becomes when performed to live music is quite a privilege.
A common complaint of the much-loved cult classic 1988 Tim Burton film “Beetlejuice”—and its sequel—is that there’s just not enough of its fabulous titular character sprung to life, er, death, by the inimitable Michael Keaton.
“I speak more easily through photographs.” These words appear in the introduction to Ann Ray’s Love Looks Not Through The Eyes: Thirteen Years With Lee Alexander McQueen.
Arts exhibitions and performances have returned in full swing to West Michigan.
Asked to put together a bit of live entertainment for an EMI Film Studios Christmas party, Richard O’Brien, aspiring actor and lover of B movies, wrote a song called “Science Fiction Double Feature.” It went over pretty well.
Arts exhibitions and performances have returned in full swing to West Michigan. This season, there’s absolutely no shortage of concerts, symphonies, plays, musicals, ballet, visual arts and beyond.
