Review
An engaging and entertaining mystery, told in an evocative period setting, that deconstructs narrative conventions, analyzes the artifice of identity, and critiques the capitalist patriarchal system.
Is anyone surprised that playwrights like Kearnan are creating works that show us women who are resourceful — and ready to fight back against their oppressors?
“Dealing With the Dead” achieves something else no outsider, however gifted or knowledgeable, could pull off: showing how magic, superstition, religious faith and credulity (as in, a hunger to believe) play into the everyday lives of most Pointe-Noireans.
Reviews of live performances by bands led by flutist and composer Jamie Baum and saxophonist Miguel Zenón.
Keiko Green’s play about the end of the world is a robust vaudevillian entertainment.
Film Review: Echoes of Passion — Arnaud Desplechin’s “Two Pianos” Plays on the Keys of Loss and Love
Here’s a drama that explores with uncommon pathos the ways that people confront—with grace or with fury—what they’re compelled to give up.
“Hoppers”‘ climax is a valuable reminder that none of us — from mammal to ant — are safe from the fury of a Mother Nature we have badly wronged.
Kris Davis appeared with her current trio of acoustic bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake, a simpatico unit that clearly responds to both the pianist’s genre-pushing forms and spontaneous sense of adventure.
Sliding back and forth between the past and the present, “Eating Ashes” paints a gritty, emotional, and forceful vision of a family traumatized by disconnection.
Gary Lippman’s latest offering is the least classifiable of his books so far. It’s an inventive assemblage of fiction, historical anecdotes, autobiography, authorial meditations (and advice), quotes, song lyrics, and literary allusions.
The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters