Arts

‘Got Dance?’ Audition at the YMCA

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YMCA News:

The Y is calling for dance auditions open to ages 12 and older in individual and group dance categories. Selected acts will perform 4-6:30 p.m., April 26 at New Beginnings Fellowship Church, 112 East Road.

Dancers will compete per category for top honors. Performance will be on a 25’ deep x 45’ wide wooden, elevated stage coated in a poly-resin paint.

The performance will benefit the Y’s Annual Campaign for scholarships. Tickets sold at the door.

Audition requires submitting an electronic link of your representational dance. Register to compete Feb.6 through March 16 at the Family Read More

LALT Announces Auditions for ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’

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LALT News

Los Alamos Little Theatre announces auditions for Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts’ romantic musical “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” to be performed in May 2014.

Auditions are scheduled at 5 p.m. Feb. 8 and 9 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar. Those auditioning need to attend only one of these, although they are welcome to attend all. 

Prepare a song (not from this show) and bring your music for the accompanist. If you are auditioning for a non-singing part, you will read an excerpt from the script.

Details on the scenes, auditions, Read More

A Shy Young Man Learns about Love in ‘Lars and the Real Girl’

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Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

If you look up “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007, PG-13) on IMDB, the one-line blurb reports, “A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.”

First, I wonder if the adjectives “delusional” and “unconventional” are really necessary, considering the noun “doll.” Second, I wonder if it’s possible to summarize such a paradoxically complex and simple film, at all, but particularly in a single sentence.

Yes, it’s about a quiet man who ─ Read More

‘Merry Wives’ Kick Their Heals in This Lively Production

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From left, Mistress Ford (Stephanie Anne Landers), Master ford (Micah Linford), Sir John Falstaff (George Williams), Master Page (Tom Conklin) and Fairies Fiona and Chloe Ferber. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Hugh Evans (David Buckland), left, and Master Page (Tom Conklin) watch as Pistol, (Los Alamos actor Iain May) takes on his boss, Sir John Falstaff (George Williams.) Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Review By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Arden Shakespeare Festival brings a polished and fun production of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Read More

Glenn Randall Will Present Landscape Photography Workshop

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LAPC News:

The Los Alamos Photography Club and the Los Alamos Adobe Users Group are sponsoring a one day workshop by landscape photographer Glenn Randall 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12 upstairs at Fuller Lodge Art Center. The cost is $70.

Randall is a nationally known photographer and teacher. He is a regular contributor to the magazine Outdoor Photographer. Here is a link to the syllabus for the class. Visit https:////www.glennrandall.com/ to see examples of Randall’s work.

“I took a workshop from Glenn last August at Rocky Mountain National Park and found it to be excellent,” club Read More

Workshop: Write Marketable Children’s Book in 7 Weeks

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COMMUNITY News:

Award-winning Los Alamos authors Shirley Raye Redmond and Jennifer McKerley will offer a half-day workshop for the Southwest Writers organization 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Carlisle Executive Offices, 3200 Carlisle Blvd. NE, Suite 114 in Albuquerque.

Using the method explained in their workbook, “Write Marketable Children’s Book in 7 Weeks,” Redmond and McKerley have sold dozens of children’s books to major publishers, including Random House and Simon & Schuster.

They have had titles translated overseas into French and Spanish. Read More

Los Alamos Students Shine at 2014 Junior Theater Festival

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Los Alamos students from Atomic City Children’s Theater at the 2014 Junior Theater Festival. Photo by James Barker/Junior Theater Festival

ACCT News:

Los Alamos students from Atomic City Children’s Theater earned national praise at the 2014 Junior Theater Festival Jan.17, 18 and 19 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Ga. 

The 18 students, ages 9-15, presented selections from Disney’s Mulan JR. for Ryan Macaulay, who works in the amateur licensing department of Josef Weinbergur Ltd. in the U.K.); and Linda Hartzell, artistic director of Seattle Children’s Theatre; and Read More

Tapestry Artists Stir Up ‘Alphabet Soup Exhibit’

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Airplane in Air by Cindy Dworzak. Courtesy photo
 
Spiral in Space: Whirlpool Galaxy by Evelyn Campbell. Courtesy photo
 
FLAC News:

Las Aranas Spinners and Weavers Guild (Albuquerque and Central New Mexico) and Las Tejedoras Fiber Arts Guild (Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico) present a tapestry show, the Alphabet Soup Exhibit, at Fuller Lodge Art Center’s Portal Gallery Jan. 31–March 15.

There will be an opening reception for this show, and for “Signed Sealed Delivered” in the Main Gallery, 5-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31.

The Alphabet Soup Exhibit consists of 31 small Read More

Arden Shakespeare Festival Presents ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’

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From left, Micah Linford (Master Ford disguised as Master Brook), Ambrose Ferber (Host of the Garter Tavern) and George Williams (Falstaff) in ‘Merry Wives of Windsor.’ Courtesy photo

Theater News:

The Arden Shakespeare Festival returns to Santa Fe from its recent sold out run in New York and great reviews at the Edinburgh Festival to present Shakespeare’s hilarious comedy of seduction, jealousy and revenge, “The Merry Wives of Windsor.”

Queen Elizabeth so enjoyed the character of Falstaff in the history plays, she asked Will Shakespeare to write another play about him, he Read More