- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: The Back Channel
What happened at Pecha Kucha?
November 13, 2008 – 12:20 pm
I wasn’t able to attend last night’s Pecha Kucha. You can read more about the inaugural “show-and-tell” for “cultural creatives” here. Though I couldn’t make it, Dan Conover did. Conover is a careful reporter and thoughtful essayist. He used to be a staffer at The Post and Courier. He’s currently on his own, as the [...]
Doctor Feelbad
November 12, 2008 – 4:35 pm
The reviews of the New York performance of John Adams’ new opera, about the life of Robert Oppenheimer, have been stellar. So opera fans, and even curious culture vultures, should check out the Metropolitan Opera’s high-definition broadcast of Doctor Atomic.
John Adams, who also composed the seminal Nixon in China, explores the gripping and tragic story [...]
Beatles on Rock band
November 12, 2008 – 4:34 pm
The Associated Press reported the creators of the hit video game Rock Band, will be making a new video game featuring music by the Beatles. The game will include sampling from the albums Please Please Me and Let It Be. Expected to be released for the holiday season, the idea is that the music simulator [...]
The other dance company
November 12, 2008 – 4:32 pm
Don’t forget about Charleston’s other dance corps, the Robert Ivey Ballet. We talk about the Charleston Ballet Theatre a lot, but this group also benefits from fresh talent. The troupe is in residence at the College of Charleston and offers its fall performance on Nov. 14-15 at 8 p.m., Nov. 16 at 3 p.m. The [...]
Cup of Joe with the CSO
November 12, 2008 – 4:31 pm
Do you like coffee? Do you like maestros? Then kill two birds with one stone at the Charleston Public Library on Calhoun Street for Coffee with the Maestros. At 10 a.m. on Nov. 14, the public is invited to meet flutist Regina Helcher Yost and music director David Stahl of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. The [...]
Wanna be in a video?
November 11, 2008 – 2:01 pm
If so, this is for you. I suppose. Just got this in my email. I can’t verify anything. Go at your own risk. I will say this. I’m listening to the band’s music right now. It’s pretty groovy. So they have that going for them.
Hello my name is Nefertiti and I’m casting for a music [...]
Breaking News: PURE to do ‘The Last Five Years’
November 11, 2008 – 9:52 am
I got word late yesterday that PURE Theatre is filling in its TBA date in January with something it rarely does: a musical. But this isn’t just any musical, if memory serves me correctly. I’m pretty sure that Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years has just two characters in it and is told, or [...]
The end of a cultural era?
November 11, 2008 – 9:30 am
By Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, published by New Geography . . .
Senator Barack Obama’s success in the 2008 presidential campaign marks more than an historical turning point in American politics. It also signals the beginning of a new era for American society, one dominated by the attitudes and behaviors of the largest generation [...]
Mary Jackson wins again!
November 10, 2008 – 9:09 am
A short time after winning the prestigious “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation, Johns Island basket-maker Mary Jackson has won another high-profile award, this time a fellowship from the advocacy group United States Artists, in the amount of $50,000. If there was any doubt that Jackson is the face of the arts for Charleston to [...]
If Obama, as president, has time for this …
November 6, 2008 – 10:43 am
From Bloomberg News, 10/31/2008 . . .
Obama Tapped Hal Prince, Michael Chabon to Craft Culture Plank
“[Now President-Elect] Barack Obama writes poetry, gets props from Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z, and is the first White House contender to include a far-reaching arts plank in his platform. The proposals range from increased support for arts education and the [...]
