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Danny Bristoll

Loneliness Was a Pandemic

November 12, 2024

Haller has created a world where robots have conquered all of humanity through the ability to copy, with precision, the technical aspects of a functional society. The lack of understanding of human artistic creation keeps them from destroying a particular element of human culture: creative artists. The missing element in the totality of their superior nature is the spark of artistic creation. It is an aspect of humans they do not fully understand. So, they keep alive those humans considered to be creative artists in an attempt to understand and replicate the human ability of singular artistic creation. [more]

H.M.S. Pinafore (NYGASP)

January 5, 2023

While Albert Bergeret’s old-fashioned production does not sparkle, it is a solid, steady ship that satisfies with all its jokes intact plus a few new ones like the hilarious drunken scene between the captain and the First Lord of the Admiralty. Associate conductor Joseph Rubin kept the orchestra in close harmony and gave an excellent account of Sullivan’s lilting score. Albère’s attractively realistic scenery looked brand new and created interesting stage pictures. The lovely late Victorian costumes by Gail Wofford helped complete the stage picture. Benjamin Weill’s lighting design bathed the stage in sunlight for the daytime scenes in the first act, and used blues and purples for the evening scenes of the second act. [more]