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First Live Performance Review – Jack Williams
The first concert that I had ever been to at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts – in hindsight a highly regrettable fact – was surely an incredible experience. The Emory Jazz Big Band came together in a tour de … Continue reading
Much Ado about Nothing – Jack Williams
In line with much of Shakespeare’s work, Much Ado about Nothing is a play (ballad?) about the tragedy and romance involved with marriage and love. I saw this particular version as a Hollywood RomCom with a European twist, but also … Continue reading
Inherit the Wind – Jack Williams
I truly enjoyed Inherit the Wind, because it brought to life an extremely hot issue of the time through both technical and creative ways using just a stage, lights, actors, and a few desks. Inherit the Wind, which obviously recounts … Continue reading
Waiting for Godot – Jack Williams
I was not a big fan of Waiting for Godot. I think that the reason behind this is not necessarily that I disliked this version of the play or the script but rather that I don’t very much like the … Continue reading
Glengarry Glen Ross – Jack Williams
What a cast! I absolutely LOVED this film, and plan on it being one of the movies that I watch over twenty times. As having just gone through the real estate process myself, it was quite scary to watch this … Continue reading
A Raisin in the Sun – Jack Williams
Lorraine Hansberry, in A Raisin in the Sun, brings to light the condition of poor African American families in the South Side of urban Chicago during the 1950s. The play debuted on Broadway in 1959, and was felt heavily in … Continue reading
Sweeney Todd – Jack Williams
I very much liked Sweeney Todd, and I usually do not enjoy the horror genre as a whole. The reason I usually avoid that genre is because their plotlines tends to be easily anticipated, and the reasons for the protagonist’s … Continue reading
A Streetcar Named Desire – Jack Williams
Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, is a 1947 classic which addresses the human psyche and many of the social “inconsistencies” that result from the human mind and its desires such as homosexuality, for example. Reflected in each of … Continue reading
Noises Off – Jack Williams
Noises Off is the story behind a disastrously unprepared, dim-witted and drug-and-sex-addicted group of actors and actresses throughout their preparation for and performances of the fictional play Nothing On. Being such an abhorrent play, and such a frustration for the … Continue reading
Medea – Jack Williams
Although this play only won third prize at the Dionysia Festival in 431 BCE, it has become one of Euripides’ best and most popular works as well as one of the great works of the Western Canon. The play is … Continue reading