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Ex-Spokane actress Caruso honored for work Off-Broadway

Former Spokane actress Sophia Anne Caruso is one of the nominees for the Earn Lortel Awards, which honor the best in Off-Broadway theater. Caruso, 13, is up for Outstanding Featured Actress in a play for her work in “The Nether,” written by Jennifer Haley and produced by MCC Theater. The play also was nominated for Outstanding Play and in three technical categories.
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Symphony No. 2015-16

Let’s start with the new. A two-film series. A collaboration with Opera Coeur d’Alene. Guest performances from Sheena Easton, and Herb Alpert and Lani Hall. A host of visiting pianists, including new-to-Spokane Alon Goldstein and Ian Parker. What’s returning? The Soirees to the Davenport Hotel. “Carmina Burana.” Beethoven’s Ninth on New Year’s Eve, “The Nutcracker.” Symphony With a Splash.
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GU brings Kearney to town

Douglas Kearney is more than a poet. He’s a teacher, at the California Institute of Art in Valencia, California. He’s a librettist, having written the words for the operas including “Crescent City” and “Mordake.” He’s a performer as well, bringing his poetry to life on stage and on video.
A&E >  Entertainment

‘Camelot’ holds court on INB stage

Whether King Arthur actually existed is a question debated by modern-day historians. What isn’t debatable is the impact this supposed fifth century British ruler has made on popular culture. There are cartoons, comic books, novels, histories, documentaries and operas that tell of the Arthurian legend. Movies serious (“Excalibur”), romantic (“Sword of Lancelot”) and profoundly silly (“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”) have all told stories of King Arthur, his queen, Guenevere, the brave Sir Lancelot and the other Knights of the Round Table. And there’s the Broadway musical.
News >  Spokane

Civic Theatre leader’s defamation suit revived

The Washington Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated a defamation suit filed by former Spokane Civic Theatre artistic director Yvonne A.K. Johnson against the theater’s former music director. Johnson fired James P. Ryan in 2010 after revelations about his “swingers” lifestyle came to light. In early 2011 he launched a blog, Civic Doody, in which he has detailed his complaints about his termination and Johnson’s work at Civic.
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Manhattan Transfer heads to Fox in May

The legendary vocal group Manhattan Transfer is coming to the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox in May, and tickets go on sale Tuesday. The group, which has been on the scene for four decades, has won 10 Grammys – of 17 nominations – and scored a big pop hit, “The Boy From New York City,” in 1981. Other hits include “Route 66,” “Spice of Life” and a cover of Weather Report’s “Birdland.”
A&E >  Entertainment

Collaboration charts new artistic ground

The organizers of Friday’s Spokane Symphony and Terrain collaboration, “Uncharted Territory,” are keeping details a little vague. Intentionally. “This is something that not many orchestras, if any, have done in this country,” said the symphony’s executive director, Brenda Nienhouse, “so we’re trying to make sure we’re bringing the strengths of both organizations together – the established musicians and the emerging musicians – and not lose the specialness of each, and have it come together as something that is unlike anything you’ve experienced before.”
A&E >  Entertainment

Collaboration charts new artistic ground

The organizers of tonight’s Spokane Symphony and Terrain collaboration, “Uncharted Territory,” are keeping details a little vague. Intentionally. “This is something that not many orchestras, if any, have done in this country,” said the symphony’s executive director, Brenda Nienhouse, “so we’re trying to make sure we’re bringing the strengths of both organizations together – the established musicians and the emerging musicians – and not lose the specialness of each, and have it come together as something that is unlike anything you’ve experienced before.”
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Book Notes: Neuffer looks at Andelin, antifeminist movement

In the 1960s, as the feminist movement was on the rise, a separate women’s movement also gained traction by preaching a wholly different message. The Fascinating Womanhood Movement, founded in 1961 by Helen Andelin, taught that women should submit to their husbands’ will, that women should not work outside the home, and that women should maintain a feminine appearance, among other tenets. Her first book sold more than 2 million copies.
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Spotlight: ‘Left Overs’ caps new works series at Stage Left theater

Stage Left theater in downtown Spokane will conclude its new works series with the second “Left Overs.” The challenge? To write, rehearse and perform five short plays in a 24-hour period. Ron Ford, Gail Cory-Betz, Matthew Weaver, Sandra Hosking and Will Gilman are the playwrights. Juan Mas, Rebecca Cook, Dawn Taylor Reinhardt, Scott Doughty and Kim Roberts are the directors. The actors are: Aubrey Shimek, Jordan Lannen, Jason Young, Robyn Urhausen, Tanya Brownlee, Sarah Miller, Emily Hiller, Chasity Kohlman, Nancy Gasper, Aaron Carr-Callen, Dan Baumer, Lindsay Teter, Cole Durbin and Hazel Bean.
A&E >  Entertainment

Festival finale triple play

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Major – known as the Triple Concerto – is the only work the master ever wrote for more than one solo instrument. The triple is among the works that will be performed on Sunday during the Northwest Bach Festival finale at St. John’s Cathedral. Festival artistic director Zuill Bailey will play the cello part, Soovin Kim will take the violin part, and Awadagin Pratt will play the piano part.
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Festival finale triple play

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Major – known as the Triple Concerto – is the only work the master ever wrote for more than one solo instrument. The triple is among the works that will be performed on Sunday during the Northwest Bach Festival finale at St. John’s Cathedral. Festival artistic director Zuill Bailey will play the cello part, Soovin Kim will take the violin part, and Awadagin Pratt will play the piano part.
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Book Notes: 2015 Get Lit headliners

The 2015 Get Lit schedule has gone live. The annual literary festival, sponsored by Eastern Washington University, will include local luminaries Jess Walter, Sherman Alexie and Shawn Vestal, first-time novelists Sharma Shields, Kris Dinnison and S.M. Hulse, as well as local favorites Bruce Holbert, Sam Ligon, Greg Spatz and John Keeble. Local poets Thom Caraway, Tod Marshall and Maya Jewell Zeller will be joined by out-of-towners Carlos Reyes, Prartho Sereno, Rick Barot and Gary Copeland Lilley.
A&E >  Entertainment

Alton Brown’s serious about playing with his food

The idea of a live culinary show evokes an image of a booth at county fair exhibit hall, staffed by a microphone-wearing pitchman selling knives or blenders or the latest fad diet. Alton Brown’s live culinary show, which stops by the INB Performing Arts Center on Sunday, won’t be like that.
A&E >  Entertainment

Violinist Soovin Kim tackles multifaceted Bach works for festival

Violinist Soovin Kim is immersed in the partitas and sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. Not only will he be in Spokane next week to perform Sonata No. 1 and Partitas 1 and 3 as part of the Northwest Bach Festival’s Twilight Tours program, he’s in the middle of recording all six solo violin works for an album to be released later this year.
A&E >  Entertainment

Alton Brown’s serious about playing with his food

The idea of a live culinary show evokes an image of a booth at county fair exhibit hall, staffed by a microphone-wearing pitchman selling knives or blenders or the latest fad diet. Alton Brown’s live culinary show, which stops by the INB Performing Arts Center on Sunday, won’t be like that.