Hays Street Bridge, San Antonio, 2006
re: culture, ideas & the built environment
Mike Greenberg / San Antonio
My
short play "Max & Maggie" had quite
a good production as part of the Bexar Naked
Playwrights' "Black Box-er Shorts" festival,
Feb. 21-March 2 in the excellent black-box
theater at Northwest Vista College. Here's
a link to the video on YouTube. At
left, Lisa Valle and Evans Jarnefeldt play the
title characters.I am pleased to welcome Diane Windeler as a guest reviewer on incidentlight.com. Diane was for many years a freelance music and theatre critic, first for the San Antonio Light and then for the San Antonio Express-News. Here, she'll concentrate on theatre reviews, though I'll sometimes ask her to fill in on music as well. Her first theatre review considers Classic's production of Max Frisch’s “The Firebugs.”
Video "memento" of my play, "Three Views of a Waterfall," in the Bastrop Opera House production. The planned video shoot of the final performance had to be scrubbed when one of the leads fell ill and was unable to appear
.
I assembled the "memento" from audio and video
clips I recorded during the production process.
The clips were intended only for my reference,
not for public consumption, and I apologize
for the technical quality. Dec. 4, 2011
COMING FEB. 21-23: Morton Subotnick plans Urban-15 residency Feb. 11, 2013
SA Symphony's new music director: Sebastian Lang-Lessing seeks a sound,
connects with local tradition Feb. 22, 2010
Reviews by Diane Windeler
Classic Theatre/"Scapin," by Moliere: A servant commands laughter May 16, 2013
Vexler Theatre/"Glengarry Glen Ross": Life of a salesman Feb. 15, 2013
Classic Theatre/"Painting Churches": Portrait of the artist as yearning child Feb. 12, 2013
Playhouse Cellar/"Red": Inside Rothko's studio -- and his mind Jan. 30, 2013
Woodlawn Black Box/"Eurydice" by Sarah Ruhl: Try to remember Nov. 20, 2012
Proxy Theatre Co./"End Days": Jesus is a friend of hers Nov. 6, 2012
The Playhouse Cellar /'November': A politician hoist with Mamet's petard Oct. 29, 2012
Sheldon Vexler Theatre /'The 39 Steps': Hitch and high jinks Oct. 29, 2012
Classic Theatre / Max Frisch's 'The Firebugs': A fool and his matches Oct. 15, 2012
Olmos Ensemble: Reach and grasp May 11, 2013
SA Symphony, SLL, Andreas Bach: Beauty and the beast May 4, 2013
Ebène Quartet: Rigor in action, from Mozart to Miles April 16, 2013
SA Symphony, SLL: In Verdi's Requiem, doom and grace in equal glory April 14, 2013
David Finckel & Wu Han; Olmos Ensemble: Still more Brahms, and more March 20, 2013
SA Symphony, SLL, Alexandre Da Costa: From factory floor to concert hall March 9, 2013
SA Symphony, Camerata, SLL, Gluzman, Wang: More Brahms, less 'Brahmsian' Feb. 17, 2013
SA Symphony, SLL, Gerstein, Camerata: A feast of Brahms, with plenty of feeling Feb. 10, 2013
Miró Quartet: Vox populi Jan. 31, 2013
SA Symphony, Kamensek, Gomyo: Ives, on the way to becoming Ives Jan. 26, 2013
Olmos Ensemble, Andrew Garland: A baritone voice of startling beauty Nov. 21, 2012
SA Symphony, SLL, Ewa Kupiec: Webs of influence Nov. 17, 2012
Opus One: E pluribus unum Nov. 14, 2012
SA Symphony, Lang-Lessing, Filjak: Speaking French like a native Nov. 10, 2012
YOSA Philharmonic, Richard Stoltzman: Impressive leaps, forward and back Nov. 7, 2012
Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio: First hearing Oct. 27, 2012
SA International Piano Competition: The medalists, and the one that got away Oct. 24, 2012
SA Symphony, Lang-Lessing, Skride: 'Symphonie fantastique' in high-def Oct. 20, 2012
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, James Dick: Autumnal Beethoven, springy Brahms Oct. 19, 2012
SOLI: New postcards from settled territory Oct. 12, 2012
SA Symphony, Tebar, Chi: New contract! New season! Ding, ding, ding! Oct. 6, 2012
Laura Claycomb, soprano: Agility to spare in 'Amor,' and more Oct. 1, 2012
Camerata San Antonio, Olmos Ensemble: The season begins Sept. 30, 2012
Cactus Pear Music Festival: Fresh coffee, recycled 'Seasons' July 16, 2012
Cactus Pear Music Festival: Mastering the style, and transcending it July 9, 2012
Report from St. Louis: An 'Alice in Wonderland' for our time July 3, 2012
SA Symphony, Lang-Lessing, Scheps: Finding the song in Bruckner's granite June 2, 2012
SA Symphony, Macelaru, Simonyan: An Armenian soul May 26, 2012
SA Symphony: Honoring Jacques Barzun with Berlioz May 17, 2012
Olmos Ensemble: A rhapsody for the clarinetist May 9, 2011
San Antonio Symphony, Barry Douglas: Three (plus three) pieces in old style May 5, 2012
San Antonio Symphony: Venturing into the baroque April 14, 2012
Vienna Piano Trio: A walk in the moonlight, with a lighter step April 3, 2012
San Antonio Symphony, Masur, Zhou: Homecoming March 24, 2012
Camerata San Antonio: Invitation to the dance March 20, 2012
Red Priest: An authentically freewheeling blast March 6, 2012
SA Symphony, SLL, Vadim Gluzman: Fire and water March 3, 2012
Beethoven Festival: Swann, Dowling: The last word, and some along the way Feb. 21, 2012
Brent Watkins, pianist: Big sound, big risks, big payoffs Feb. 19, 2012
Beethoven Festival/San Antonio Symphony: We're all brothers, till the music stops Feb. 11, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Ryo Yanagitani, Audrey Andrist: Voluptuary and empath Feb. 9, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Pacifica Quartet, Olmos Ensemble: Concerts rarefied and earthy Jan. 31, 2012
Beethoven Festival/San Antonio Symphony: In an old friend, unexpected charms Jan. 28, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Christopher Guzman: A Beethovenian Jan. 27, 2012
Beethoven Festival/SOLI Chamber Ensemble: Collaborations across two centuries Jan. 24, 2012
Beethoven Festival/SA Symphony: Second, Fourth and ta-ta-ta-DAH Jan. 21, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Spencer Myer: Scenes from near the peak, and the approach Jan. 20, 2012
Beethoven Festival/SA Symphony: You've heard 'Eroica' before? Nope Jan. 14, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Naoko Takao: How much freedom is too much? Jan. 13, 2012
Beethoven Festival/Jeffrey Swann, Camerata: Concerts conversing with one another Jan. 10, 2012
Archive: Music reviews from previous years
Placemaking at its
best: Latest San Antonio River Improvements transform
wasteland into civic treasure June 21, 2009Correcting the record on lessons from Santa Barbara: Density is good April 2, 2009
McNay
Art Museum's Stieren Center for Exhibitions: Jean Paul
Viguier's pure Modernist addition is all about the light June 13,
20081221 Broadway Lofts: Making an introvert gregarious
June 2, 2008
Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts:
Right space, wrong place April 28, 2008
Configured for concerts, Austin's new Dell Hall still sounds like an opera house May 24, 2008
Notes from the Congress for the New Urbanism's conference in Austin April 18, 2008
CNU XVI: New Urbanist guru thrashes Austin six ways from Sunday April 10, 2008
Transportation Choices Forum: Some gaps remain in our "Smart Growth" smarts (March 30, 2008)
Jubilee Outreach/Wigodsky & Assoc.: Designing within the system
Plus: Big Grass Bamboo: Cinderella story (March 2, 2008)
What to expect in performing arts center? The picture is cloudy (Feb. 16, 2008)
Windcrest Village: Duany brings New Urbanism to Old Sprawl (Jan. 30, 2008)
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