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Showing posts with label William Beals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Beals. Show all posts
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Shankar and Her Many Strings Stun Lisner
BY WILLIAM BEALS
Sitar player Anoushkar Shankar performed Friday evening for a
sold-out crowd at Lisner Auditorium. The nearly two hour performance
was highlighted by passionate performances by Shankar and her supporting band.
The performance included five other backing artists, who provided
percussions, vocals, cello and piano. The concert was to promote
Shankar’s seventh studio album, “Traces of You”, her first album release
since her 2011 Grammy nominated album, “Traveler.”
The concert began with a standing ovation and ended with cheers
for an encore. The artists were happy to oblige.
Shankar began training on the sitar with her father as a child.
Consisting of a couple sessions per week, practice began at the age of ten.
Shankar gave her first public performance at the age of 13 at Siri Fort in New
Delhi. By the age of14, she was accompanying her father at concerts around the
world. She signed her first record contract with Angel Records at the age of
16.
Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of famed sitar player Ravi
Shankar, who gained international fame in the 1960s, and taught George Harrison
of “The Beatles.” Anoushka Shankar is also the half
sister of singer songwriter Norah Jones.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Rocky Horror Pleases Yet Again
BY WILL BEALS
Forbidden Planet Productions’ 19th annual performance of The
Rocky Horror Picture Show was a huge
hit, filled with classics including “virgin games” and a whole lot of audience
participation.
The show began before the doors even opened, with cast
members asking audience members if they had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show before. Those who had not would be marked
with a red “V” on their cheek or forehead to indicate that they were Rocky Horror
virgins.
Once inside, the festivities began with the famed “virgin
games,” which consisted of audience members competing in a number of Rocky Horror-themed games. All of the participants were then told that they had, “won nothing,”
and had to leave the stage.
After the games, everyone was instructed to stand, raise
their right hand, place their left hand on the person to their left, and take
the Rocky Horror pledge of allegiance.
The show began with the 1975 film being projected on a large
screen behind the stage. Rocky Horror
veterans were quick to shout out and respond to every line of the film. Actors acted out and pantomimed all of the
dialogue and sang all of the musical numbers.
The Rocky Horror
Picture Show is a 1975 British-American musical comedy-horror film and
an adaptation of The Rocky
Horror Show, a musical stage play by Richard O’Brien. Directed by Jim Sharman, the production
is a humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B-movies of the
late 1940s through early 1970s. The film
has received a large international cult following and is the longest running
theatrical release in film history.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Dead Man's Cell Phone Knocks The Audience Dead
By Will Beals
GW’s Department of Theatre and Dance opened its MainStage season
Thursday night with its production of Sarah Ruhl’s 2007 comedy-drama, “Dead
Man’s Cell Phone.”
GW junior, Lauren Winters stars in this play about how
memorializing the dead and technology changes us as a society. Dead Man’s Cell
Phone is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about
morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed
world. The production also stars
junior Meghan Bernstein, junior Andrew Flurer, senior Same Game, senior Hilary
Kelly and senior Lily Sondik. Theater professor Elizabeth Kitsos-Kang directs
the show.
The cast delivers a moving performance, inciting laughs,
gasps and cheers from the audience.
The local Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company originally
performed Dead Man’s Cell Phone in 2007. Since then, Ruhl’s dramatic comedy has
been performed throughout the country.
Tickets are still available for the final performance of the
production, scheduled for Sunday at 2:00 PM. General admission is 15 dollars,
with a discounted student price of 10 dollars.
Ticket reservations are available online at
theatredance.gwu.edu, by calling (202) 994-0995, or by visiting the box
office prior to the performance. The box office is located next to the Dorothy
Betts Marvin Theatre, on the first floor of the Marvin Center and will
open at 1:00 PM.
Following Dead Man’s Cell Phone, the Department of Theatre
and Dance’s 2013-2014 season continues with five other productions including
Twelfth Night (opening Oct. 31), Absurdities: An Evening of Ionesco (opening
Feb. 20), The Cradle Will Rock (opening March 27), and two faculty, guest
artist, and student choreographed DanceWorks (opening Nov. 14 and April 17).
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Friday, November 16, 2012
WRGW News at 6: Thursday, November 15, 2012
With a special report on Sexual Assault at GW, AU, and Georgetown's campuses.
Friday, October 5, 2012
WRW News at 6: Thursday October 4, 2012
Featuring a special report by WRGW Sports Director Nkwa Asonye. We apologize for any technical difficulties.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Students Arrested in Protest Share Their Story
GW freshmen Markus Batchelor and Matt Laurinavicius stopped by last night's "News at 6" to discuss the fight for D.C. statehood and their recent arrest at a protest at the Capitol. Listen below:
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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