RUFUS-RETRO-WAINWRIGHT-SPECTIVE: ACT 3 at Bram Goldsmith Theater at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

**Each evening will feature a different program, all combining to create the full Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective experience. ACT 3: Songs of Contempt and Resistance - Any highly original artist is going to find resistance from the outside world against their work and if they want to be successful will have to put up a fight for their position in the world. They will also fight themselves, their doubts and demons. These fights can be political, artistic, or personal. Exuberant as Wainwright is in his song-writing, these feelings fuel some of his most epic songs and lyrics from Old Testament references in "Jericho" to symphonic climaxes in "Go or Go Ahead." As in all of Wainwright's songs, there is a joy and irony in what he is expressing, a lust for the art of songwriting that lifts these personal struggles into a much higher plain of human experience.