This Issue | Scene4 Magazine March 2017

Frankenstein Meets
Downton Abbey

Like Victor Frankenstein, the medical student who created and lost control of The Creature, in his new ballet, Liam Scarlett falls victim to his own unwieldy creation.

Catherine Conway Honig

Women at a Crossroads

Hidden Figures
20th Century Women

Both films depict women faced with important life decisions in the last half of the previous century.

Miles David Moore

Mahler
Das Klagende Lied

Semi-staged, conducted by
Michael Tilson Thomas
at the San Francisco Symphony.

Renate Stendhal

On Sadness and Politics
We now breathe the air of a smoldering landscape of anger, intolerance, and triumphalism. However, these fires are not new fires.
Michael Bettencourt

Bits&Pieces: Lala in La La Land
Not having the vision to see a pig fly, a cat's ninth life, a unicorn's breath, an
omni-gendered human being, and a trans-human.
Arthur Meiselman

Back in the Saddle
It's insulting. I'm coming up on my 68th birthday next week—there! I said it!—& I'm working on the vanity thing. .
Claudine Jones

I Am Not a Contrarian
Acting is a behavior that’s probably inherent with inner contradictions. We start with the fact that the #1 fear for most people is public speaking.
Nathan Thomas

Never Mind the Strawberries, Our President is Mad
Regardless of where any of us stand on the political spectrum, we have to acknowledge the fact that our President is a madman.
Patrick Walsh

Theater of the Absurd
“What are you rebelling against ?”, “Whadda you got?” sums up the sentiments of many as they grapple with the world as it is in 2017.
Les Marcott

Resisting Versus Surviving

Resistance To Doom
I had to make room for hope.

Karren LaLonde Alenier

The Steiny Road To Operadom | Karren LaLonde Alenier | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

A Conversation with Actor David Girolmo | Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold | Scene4 Magazine - March 2017 www.scene4.com

No Wrong Choices

A Conversation
with Actor
David Girolmo.

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

Arts of Thailand
Pakorn Preechaphong

Is an orchid
just an orchid?

Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

Colors of the Roundtable: Episode 7-Part III | David Wiley | Scene4 Magazine | March 2017 | www.scene4.com

Episode 7:
Visions Of Paradise - Part III

It was the only way the kingdom of Color and the Conductor would save the human species from destroying itself.

David Wiley

Old Fart Village

Who’s feeding who?

Elliot Feldman

The Dark Bride | Griselda Steiner | Scene4 Magazine | March 2017 | www.scene4.com

The Dark Bride

Margaret Starbird’s
The Woman with
the Alabaster Jar
and
The Goddess in
the Gospels

Griselda Steiner

Night Wanderer

“Wasn’t this the life everyone wanted?”
Second excerpt from
Kiss Me Again, Paris
a memoir by
Renate Stendhal


	Cloudscapes My balcony affords me a relatively clear view of the Bay Area sky, so I am always on the lookout for unusual cloud conditions. The Photography of Jon Rendell

	Nature Girl River Crossing The Art of David Wiley


	Undress Me Michael Bettencourt In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.


	The Greed Gene Michael Bettencourt A young couple is told by their genetic counselor, the "genie of genes" that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do.

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	THEATRE THOUGHTS


	An astute and entertaining array of audio essays on an array of topics by an astute and entertaining essayist.


Letters to the Editor Recent Letters

Qreviews Long & short reviews of theatre, film and more

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren LaLonde Alenier The Dresser addresses what’s underneath the art

	Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against


		Arthur Meiselman Nightdances

	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show


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