KXT on Broadway, November 26 8/10 This is Chekhov’s The Seagull not so much adapted as recooked. The characters remain recognisable despite some renaming, and the story’s intact despite being set in Bellingen during Covid. The big change of ingredient is the dialogue, but even that remains close to the…
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Wharf 1 Theatre, November 25 3/10 The appropriate venue for this play was the bottom drawer. About an hour into its 90 minutes, I sensed my partner’s tolerance hitting the red line, and whispered, “There’s not too much more.” But there was, because every minute was an eternity, while, across…
The Neilson, November 22 8/10 Twenty-four years ago pianist Andrea Keller won the inaugural Freedman Jazz Fellowship, and now she was one of a trio of judges announcing that saxophonist/composer Sam Gill had won this year’s $30,000 fellowship. Gill will pursue compositional studies, collaboration and recording in New York across…