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Theater Review: “Jagged Little Pill” — A Relevant and Rocking Brew

May 30, 2018
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In the end, Jagged Little Pill manages to spotlight multiple modern problems while making us care about its characters.

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Book Interview: Leonard S. Marcus on Robert McCloskey and the Art of the Picture Book

September 13, 2014
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The centennial of the author of Make Way For Ducklings is being celebrated with a series of lectures by scholar Leonard S. Marcus.

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Film Review: Back from the Moscow International Film Festival

July 2, 2013
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Russian intellectuals privately grasp that they must seem like jackasses to the outside world with their primitive attitudes about homosexuality, aligning not with Western Europe but with Nigeria and Uganda and the Muslim world.

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Music Interview: Billy McCarthy of Augustines — Doing Strong Work

March 4, 2014
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“It seems now that quality spreads through reputation — the live show is where we really see bands pull away from the pack. It takes quality now to survive. Strong work.”

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Coming Attractions in Theater: February 2011

January 28, 2011
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A hold-onto-your seat month with some intriguing world premieres, including a musical version of a Korean folktale, an attempt to turn Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound into a rock event, and a cerebral confab featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. By Bill Marx. King Lear by William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Grandage. NT Live screens the…

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Arts Feature: Artisan’s Asylum — A Unique Organizational Mashup

November 22, 2011
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Part of the great experiment that is Artisan’s Asylum: meeting your neighbors, realizing you need someone to help you solder/weld/create a 3d prototype, and then wandering amongst the open workspaces until you meet a co-collaborator.

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Theater Review: Another Visit to “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real”

May 24, 2012
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Tennessee Williams’ stature amongst American playwrights may be more secure then it was when he died in 1983, but companies like Beau Jest, when they stage inspired productions of previously neglected works, are expanding our appreciation of what kind of a dramatist he was.

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Theater Review: A High-Octane “Fela!”

May 1, 2012
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Don’t expect a standard musical. Think of Fela! as an immersive, artsy, concert experience featuring virtuoso displays of dance and musicianship.

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Theater Review: “Waitress” the Musical — An Enjoyable Slice of Down-Home Self-Discovery

August 23, 2015
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A few quibbles aside, the musical Waitress plays and sounds like it’s close to ready for the Broadway big time.

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Book Review: An Exhilarating Poetry Trek Through Europe

August 31, 2015
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John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages from an atlas of nations.

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