Two of them - A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love - were extended into superb features and won festival awards which encouraged the French to take him up.
THE NEWBERRY CONSORT: "SHAKESPEARE'S SONGBOOK" Music Before 1800 presents the superb ensemble (featuring the soprano Ellen Hargis and the lutenist Paul O'Dette), which will offer settings of the Bard's words by such composers as Morley, Dowland, and Cornish.
The piece is by Alex Tizon, and was published posthumously — it speaks very specifically to the punishing reverberations of the colonial class system in the Philippines, and is the latest entry in a recent streak of superb feature writing on the lives of Filipino immigrants, starting with Rachel Aviv's piece on caregivers for The New Yorker last year.
The Ottawa Citizen recently ran a superb feature on Scott Heggart (entitled "A Gay Jock Takes Off The Mask") in which they described the aspiring athlete's year-long process of posting video diaries to his YouTube account as he struggled to come out to his parents and teammates at school.
Starring the superb Ben Kingsley and featuring a great soundtrack.
The superb Steppenwolf production, featuring the fiery, fearless acting the company has long been known for, is being imported intact for the Broadway version, scheduled to open Nov. 20 at the Imperial Theater.
PRISM QUARTET: "MEMO TO SELF" Among the quirky and intriguing new-music offerings at Symphony Space this week is a concert by the superb saxophone quartet, featuring the world première of Bernard Rands's "Prism" (one of his series of solo "Memo" pieces) along with music by Augusta Read Thomas and Katie Agócs.
The superb audio guide even features GPS technology that identifies where you are in the museum and triggers playback accordingly.
Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne, Thu to 5 Nov This staged concert of Sawhney's music features the superb dance duo Wang Ramirez as well as guest vocals by Joss Stone.
MUSIC MOUNTAIN The first of two weekends of concerts features the superb young Janaki String Trio, which teams up with the pianist Alpin Hong to perform music by Beethoven, Dohnányi, and Brahms (the Piano Quartet in G Minor). (Falls Village, Conn . 860-824-7126 860-824-7126 860-824-7126ting, see www.musicmountain.org).
