Author Archives: Andy Manshel

Opera Philadelphia

Kamala Sankaram and Rob Handel’s opera takes a hard look at surveillance in an app-based world. ByHeidi WalesonSept. 10, 2019 4:38 pm ET New York Subjects for immersive theater don’t get much more relevant than the insidious spread of surveillance, which is cleverly explored in the opera “Looking at You,” by Kamala Sankaram and Rob …

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at Here. So it begins…(again!)

Leave a reply Learning from Bryant Park: Revitalizing Cities, Towns, and Public Spaces Hardcover – April 17, 2020 by Andrew M. Manshel (Author) By the 1970s, 42nd Street in New York was widely perceived to be unsafe, a neighborhood thought to be populated largely by drug dealers, porn shops, and muggers. But in 1979, civic leaders developed a long-term …

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The Glimmerglass Festival presents the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s ‘Blue,’ as well as a shortened version of ‘The Ghosts of Versailles’ and productions of ‘Show Boat’ and ‘La Traviata.’ ByHeidi WalesonAug. 14, 2019 4:19 pm ET Cooperstown, N.Y. Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson ’s “Blue,” commissioned and given its world premiere by the …

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Glimmerglass. Last night Ghosts of Versailles.

that Handel had traveled up the Susquehanna to its source?

Who needs England when we have Otsego County? Jerusalem [“And did those feet in ancient time”] BY WILLIAM BLAKE And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills?And was Jerusalem …

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