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Forsythe's "Blake Works I" | reviewed by Catherine Conway Honig | Scene4 Magazine | November 2016 | www.scene4.com

Forsythe Finds A Little Tenderness With The Paris Opera Ballet

In his new work, he has
turned surprisingly soft.
In interviews, he spoke
about not wanting to force
the dancers to change.
He mostly succeeded.

Catherine Conway Honig

Nat Chandler:
At One With His Work

He speaks with passion about his nearly three-decade career in the theatre and his odyssey from classical music to Broadway and America’s leading regional stages.

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

Pimpaween Sunthontammarat | interview by Janine Yasovant | Scene4 Magazine | November 2016 | www.scene4.com

Arts of Thailand
Pimpaween Sunthontammarat

It feels like opening a
new book
and learning about the
new world

Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

Death Of A Fish
He was just a betta fish – Betta splendens, to be exact – something that caught Marvelous María Beatriz’s eye. She named him Inigo Montoya.
Michael Bettencourt

Tenderized Genderized Jazz
It's only the music, the lyricism of the music, the song of it all that matters. What most rock, most country, all rap and Bob Dylan never understood.
Arthur Meiselman

It Had've Been Marlowe
In the inexplicable turns of fate, I have encountered another musician who worked with my beloved late-great Lillian.
Claudine Jones

An Idea
What fascinates me is that countries and arts organizations alike basically emerge into the world as the product of an idea.
Nathan Thomas

Rock’s Poet Laureate Is Now A Nobel Laureate
If people enjoy poetry at all it’s because of modern troubadours–and none greater than Bob Dylan.
Patrick Walsh

Dylan And The Nobel
His influence is immeasurable, his writing profound and provocative, his phrasing uncanny.
Les Marcott


	Reflections On The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election From Gertrude Stein’s Faust & Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Karren LaLonde Alenier

The Steiney Road To Operadom | Karren LaLonde Alenier | Scene4 Magazine | November 2016 | www.scene4.com

Days Without Nights- "Aladdin's Electric Lamp" and "Madelín de Rumba" | Arthur Meiselamn | Scene4 Magazine - November 2016 www.scene4.com

Days
Without
Nights

Aladdin’s
Electric Lamp and
Madelín de Rumba

The Drama of
First Times

Arthur Meiselman

Quests
High And Low

Two recent movies display the vitality of the oldest form of human storytelling,
the heroic quest:
Kubo and the
Two Strings
and Hell or High Water

Miles David Moore

Episode 5:
The Rapt Pack

The forming of cliques among the twelve Colors was a rarity, and when it did happen it was mostly an illusion. Gossip and rumor were rife.

David Wiley

Old Fart Village

At the Baby Boomer’s
Woodstock party
Mr. Pinkus pisses
everybody off.

Elliot Feldman

In The Beginning Was The Dance | Griselda Steiner | Scene4 Magazine | November 2016 | www.scene4.com

In The Beginning Was The Dance

Every woman has her own dance, a celebration of her life, sensuality and experience of pain and joy.

Griselda Steiner


Plants With Pizazz The Photography of Jon Rendell

Love Jungle Apocalypse III The Art of David Wiley




Autumn The mind, as John Milton once observed, is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven. Sandeep Girish Bhatnagar

Camellias If anyone suggested we were lovers, Sydney would laugh, comfortable in knowing the truth. Lissa Tyler Renaud

Five Poems Her beauty struck a match/like sweet william in still air like twilight bird’s silence/like foxglove trellising on sea cliffs Alan S. Kleiman


	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.

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts | Michael Bettencourt April 2016 | www.scene4.com


	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


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

	Arthur Meiselman Nightdances


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