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Review: ‘Liberace!’ is easily as entertaining as the icon himself

Having spent his life spreading joy with his outlandish costumes and unique style of playing the piano in concert halls, on television and as the consummate Las Vegas act, Liberace has returned from the dead to set the story straight, so to speak, because he feels redundant in heaven where everyone’s just perpetually happy.

Revue Arts 29 April 2018
  • Kalamazoo
  • Gilmore Keyboard Festival
  • Liberace
  • Farmers Alley Theatre
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Review: Wei Luo’s passion is plain to see and hear

Wei Luo, recipient of a 2018 Gilmore Young Artist Award, shares a music teacher with another Chinese pianist: Lang Lang, who also left his home country for America as a young teenager.

Revue Arts 29 April 2018
  • Gilmore Keyboard Festival
  • Wei Luo
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Review: Christian Sands Trio at Bell’s was ‘a perfect time in the perfect place’

Bell’s Eccentric Cafe was abuzz and looked a bit different than usual Thursday night. From the sounds of things, it could have been a club in Greenwich Village at any point in the 20th Century — but without the cigarette smoke and with better beer. 

Revue Arts 29 April 2018
  • Kalamazoo
  • Gilmore Keyboard Festival
  • bell's eccentric cafe
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Review: Rafał Blechacz proves his place as one of the greatest Chopin interpreters alive

Much like being named a Gilmore Artist, winning the International Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition carries much significance for a burgeoning concert pianist. 32-year-old Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz has claimed both accolades. Blechacz swept the Chopin Piano Competition in 2005 — the first Polish pianist in 30 years to win the top prize — and later won the Gilmore Artist Award in 2014.

Revue Arts 28 April 2018
  • Grand Rapids
  • Grand Rapids Symphony
  • Gilmore Keyboard Festival
  • Rafal Blechacz
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Review: ‘Mama’s Girls’ is an important show well worth seeing, despite some missteps

The play “Mama’s Girls” by Marilynn Barnes Anselmi opens with two siblings in fraught play with Barbie dolls. Though symbols for conventional gender norms, the dolls’ are smooth between their legs, a revelation to Sammy, the emerging trans girl who both catalyzes and suffers from her family’s toxic dynamic.

Revue Arts 22 April 2018
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Review: Seeing/Seen breaks down boundaries and soothes the soul

Anyone who says ballet-based modern dance doesn’t go with hip hop has been proven entirely wrong by Wellspring Cori Terry & Dancers’ Spring Concert of Dance, Seeing/Seen, a collaborative performance that breaks down both real and perceived boundaries from start to finish and beyond.

Revue Arts 20 April 2018
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Review: Carnegie Hall is in for a night of masterful, moving collaboration with the GRS

For 127 years, Carnegie Hall has showcased phenomenal soloists, orchestras and ensembles. An estimated 50,000 performances have taken place in the iconic New York City concert hall. Its walls are embedded with stirring musical history, from Tchaikovsky conducting one of his own works on the night the building opened, to the first assembly of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in 2009. Nina Simone, Bob Dylan and Beyonce have all performed on its stage.

Revue Arts 14 April 2018
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Review: ‘Lost Boy’ asks difficult questions well, but misses the whole picture

The inhuman experiences of the 20,000 children orphaned and traumatized by civil war that began in the late 1980s known as the Lost Boys of Sudan have been documented by journalists, documentarians and novelists, among others; yet their incredibly harrowing journeys and often triumphant stories deserve greater attention.

Revue Arts 13 April 2018
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Review: ‘The Lion King’ is an extraordinary, incomparable visual display

Disney’s The Lion King, billed as the world’s number one musical, is credited with having launched the new Broadway, the one that’s emerged over the past 20 years from a tourist- and family-friendly Times Square, cleaned up of grit, and some may argue, heart.

Revue Arts 07 April 2018
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Review: ‘Queen of Bingo’ is more than a game

In the original iteration of “The Queen of Bingo,” known as “the play you play along with” by Jeanne Michels and Phyllis Murphy, its central characters, two middle-aged, bingo-obsessed sisters, were played by men in drag. This is but one way the audience played along, as intermission also included a bingo game for which the winner received a 10-pound turkey.

Revue Arts 31 March 2018
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Worth a Thousand Words: Language Artists improves writing, equity and accessibility for third graders

An innovative program developed by Grand Rapids Art Museum positions the museum as an extension of the classroom.

Revue Arts 28 March 2018
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Seeing Other People: 'No Exit' explores what true Hell is, while opening doors for students

Imagine you are brought to a mysterious room by someone you don’t know. You don’t know where you are, and there are two other people with you.

Revue Arts 28 March 2018
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First Shift at Neverland: 'Lost Boy in Whole Foods' examines why refugees come to America and how we treat them

In 2001, the United States resettled 3,600 “lost boys” in cities across the country. Ten years earlier, these boys had walked 800 miles from Sudan to escape civil war, landing in Kenya. There, many of the boys ate nothing but grain every day.

Revue Arts 28 March 2018
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Thawed Out and Fired Up: Columbinus looks back on 19 years of school shootings, and how today’s students have changed

Aquinas College’s free reading of Columbinus is, of course, a direct response to the recent school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Revue Arts 28 March 2018
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Review: 'Come From Away' at SC4A is a Truly Extraordinary Telling of an Unforgettable Story

Review: 'Come From Away' at SC4A is a Truly Extraordinary Telling of an Unforgettable Story

We rely on stories to connect us, to share human experiences that may or may not be our own, and to ...
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What A Looker: David Hockney at the GRAM

What A Looker: David Hockney at the GRAM

In 1990, David Hockney turned down a knighthood. His reason? He doesn’t “care for a fuss.” Offered t...
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Review: ‘Shakespeare (Abridged)’ is Lightning-Paced and Thunderously Funny

Review: ‘Shakespeare (Abridged)’ is Lightning-Paced and Thunderously Funny

How dare they? This isn’t one of your regular bards we’re talking about. This is the bard, the immor...
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