Chico is a relatively small place, which means that our local community ballet company is also relatively small. They only do one full-length ballet a year, so they switch off: they do The Nutcracker every other year, and varying other ballets in non-Nutcracker years. This year was a Nutcracker year. I love The Nutcracker, and I love their version ( Read more... )

My mom and I went down to Sacramento last month to see Wicked. She saw the San Francisco production a few years ago; I knew almost nothing about it except that it's different from the book (which I haven't read anyway) and that it's femslashy.

( Spoilers, ranting, and a recs request. )

Last night, a friend and I went to see a local production of The Revenger's Tragedy. I wanted to go because a production of it is a plot point in Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, which is one of my favorite books of all time, and I'd never seen it. My friend knows the director who told her about one of the aspects of her directorial choice that made ( Read more... )