Commentary
Our opera-loving reviewer contrasts his own pieces, written 48 years apart, on the same Offenbach operetta.
What lies beyond COVID-19 for the arts community?
Now that the real live boy is an old man, how’s he holding up in 2020?
Today, our perception of the environment has become narrowed, defensive: the outside world has become worrisome, dangerous, aspirational, and changing.
It seems evident that hardly anyone knows about the centenary of a moviemaker who, in earlier days, was universally revered, whose hallowed name was synonymous with art-house cinema.
The opportunity to see the culture-changing Broadway phenomenon Hamilton on Disney Plus, sucked up all the arts oxygen over the Fourth of July weekend.
A reassessment on the 40th anniversary of A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel that many consider one of the funniest ever written by an American.
What lies beyond COVID-19 for the arts community?
Dance critic, scholar, performer, activist Sally Banes died on 14 June in Philadelphia.
Critical/Theater Commentary: Slapping Sleeping Media Outlets A “Woke”
Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.
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