This Issue | Scene4 Magazine June 2017

"Postcards from New York" | Jon Rendell | Scene4 Magazine | June 2017 | www.scene4.com

Postcards from
New York

The photography of
Jon Rendell

City of Spires
and Masts

An exceptional exhibit of New York City in Prints 1900-1940

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

"Paterson" | reviewed by Miles David Moore | Scene4 Magazine | June 2017 | www.scene4.com

No Ideas But
in Things

Paterson

The best movie about
the creative process of a
writer—in this case, a
poet—I have ever seen.

Miles David Moore

The Grey Cashmere Dress Overcoat
What to call this feeling, this “fitness”? Perhaps just that: fitness. Rightness. Something that keeps us inside our own heads.
Michael Bettencourt

2 Pickles and 20 Pieces of Garlic
Someone once said, "everything is 90% about sex and 10% about nothing else." Fair enough... better than if that were reversed.
Arthur Meiselman

Cats on Prozac
This afternoon, we've stumbled into this conversation & then the question is posed: what the heck is karma anyway?
Claudine Jones

Improbable
We live in a world where the improbable is as likely as not. Take courage from that fact and make the improbable exist.
Nathan Thomas

Perfect Album: Sweetheart of the Rodeo
It comes to us time-tested and patinated, curiously familiar like a
sepia-toned photo of a bygone family gathering.
Patrick Walsh

Man Sings at His Own Funeral
Many of us spend a lot of time contemplating our own demise. How would we like to go out?
Les Marcott

Haji as Puppet:
An Orientalist Burlesque

Roger Sedarat spends a lot of time bashing poets—he’s quite equal opportunity in that respect.

Karren LaLonde Alenier

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

"Rosenkavalier" at The Met |reviewed by Renate Stendhal | Scene4 Magazine -June 2017 www.scene4.com

A Modernist Rosenkavalier
at the Met:

Octavian as a trannie.

Renate Stendhal

Arts of Thailand
The Vihara Wannee Mural

Interview with
Kriengkrai Muangmool
“It is the thing I love and am eager to do most.”

Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

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

Episode 7:
Visions Of Paradise - Part VI

The Earth could in fact be a
Paradise for all, if the human
race could muster the will and
understanding to make it so.

David Wiley

Old Fart Village

Audrey
and the
Secret Snipper

Elliot Feldman

Giddy in Wuzhen:

China’s Cutting Edge
Theatre Festival

Lissa Tyler Renaud

Step by Step

Darrell Grant’s
Step by Step: The Ruby Bridges Suite, an extraordinary combination of syncopated musical energy and historical documentary

Karren LaLonde Alenier


	Mario’s Stare Griselda Steiner


	Thomas Hardy’s Poetry in Song Lewis Alpaugh

Drunken Boat
~
Rimbaud’s House

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.

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


		Arthur Meiselman Nightdances

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


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