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Susan Sontag wrote short stories as a hobby; she saved more of her enormous intellectual energy for her novels and essays.
Read MoreLong stretches of the evening ask the audience to listen to annoying children’s voices in the dark.
Read MoreCasa Valentina’s dramatic weight comes from how skillfully the cast explores the tensions that swirl about the subject of who is gay, who is straight, and what is legal.
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It’s a work that shifts gears often, which is not in itself a bad idea for a book about a famed shape-shifter.
Read Moreby Gary Schwartz It is not too late to commemorate the 400th anniversary, earlier this year, of one of the great inter-civilizational gestures of early modern times. On January 3rd, 1608, a delegation of Discalced Carmelite monks, arriving in Isfahan from Rome via Kraków, presented to the Moslem Shah Abbas I one of the most…
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A translator must meet a compelling need — to reinvent Franz Kafka’s voice in an English that resounds in the present moment.
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Throughout these bold solo performances, pianist Chick Corea exudes confidence.
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The value of “On Frost and Eliot” is sending the reader spinning out of its own text and back to poems by two of the major poets of the 20th century, each of whom has suffered from the vagaries of fashion, both in popularity and neglect.
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Two exhibitions merit a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art — but soon. Each closes July 16.
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Theater Commentary: Notes Toward a Definition of Theater, Part One — “Be Bold and Wild”
As we grapple with building the brave new world of live theater in a Covid and post-Covid world, a few stray thoughts.
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