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Another Moment in the Woods
Into the Woods is everywhere, it seems, but it has not always been so. A world pre-Woods came flooding back to me recently as I sat enthralled by the sorcery of the Fiasco Theater's ingeniously...
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Jim Morphesis 'Wounds of Existence': Art Review
The word "baroque" kept returning to my mind as I walked through the exhibition "Jim Morphesis: Wounds of Existence" at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. In part, it's the sheer, intense,...
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Stage Door: Rocket to the Moon
Powerhouse playwright Clifford Odets produced his greatest plays in prewar America. Masterpieces like Awake and Sing! and Golden Boy focus on the moral dynamics and economic despair that propel the...
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Metaphysical Unease as a Result of Biological Disturbance
When I saw "Beautiful Beast," at the New York Academy of Art, I hadn't written anything about art for a while. I've been a bit out of circulation lately -- my schedule has gotten to the point where I...
View ArticleMy Night Out: Looking for Love At 'Honeymoon In Vegas'
Broadway's Honeymoon in Vegas has the electricity of the city after which it is titled. Rob McClure's giddy slapstick humor as Jack Singer is contagious, and Tony Danza as Tommy Korman is just well......
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Three Stops on Our Way to the Oscars
As a teenager, I fell in love with fearsome and gorgeous Gods and Goddesses who --according to myths and legends of Ancient Greece --ruled the world from the top of Mount Olympus. Then, years later,...
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Anne-Sophie Mutter - A Profile of the Artist
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony for three performances of Brahms's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 on February 26-28 at 8:00. The...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Ivo van Hove's "View From the Bridge" View, David Hare's...
London--What can ordinarily be objectionable about Ivo van Hove's too often juvenile look-at-me directing is that he thinks it's innovative to play up a script's subtext. That, of course, is just what...
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Aisle View: Wildly Funny Sketch Plays
Arnie Burton, Rick Holmes, Kelly Hutchinson and Liv Rooth in David Ives' Lives of the Saints. Photo: James Leynse All in the Timing, an evening of six wildly comedic sketch/plays by David Ives (and...
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Aisle View: The Other Place and a Modern/Classic Bloodbath
Ben Rosenfield and Sophia Anne Caruso in Jennifer Haley's The Nether. Photo: Jenny Anderson The nether realm, as constructed in Jennifer Haley's eighty-minute drama The Nether at MCC, is a demon world...
View ArticleJazz Was Not Meant for the Dinner Table
A funny thing happened on the way to "school," and "dinnertime" got really strange. Let me explain. When I was born in 1949, America's musical academia was paying little attention to jazz as an...
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A Reversed 'Execution,' Street Artist DRAN Finishes His Show
Either it will have proved to be a master class or an exhibition in hubris, says Pictures on Walls in their framing of the empty-framed show in progress by Dran in London's Soho. Public Execution was...
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How Happenings Are Happening Now
"Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends..." Who knew that masterful track from prog-rockers Emerson, Lake and Palmer would prove so prescient in tone and spirit? But I think it helps...
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A Retrospective of Architect David Adjaye Examines His Prolific Body of Work
When the ongoing visual transformation of London is discussed, the most obvious architectural players are the big hitters like Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid. But one other architect has...
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A Love Letter and Wake Up Call to LA Theater and Actors' Equity
Here we go again. Just like the rabble-rousing "Waiver Wars" of the mid '80s -- union meetings, passionate and heated rhetoric, mano-a-mano infighting -- all about the well-being, membership,...
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Red Baraat's Infectious Bhangra Funk, Pluralistic Message and Its Gaadi of...
I remember the one time I saw reggae king Bob Marley in concert, and from the instant that he struck up his first chord, my date and I stood up and kept dancing on our feet with the rest of the stoked...
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Draw
Self-portrait, copyright Logan Nakyanzi Pollard I met a homeless man once who drew my picture in pencil on a subway street people I have encountered strangely have been the most peaceful people to me...
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Cutting-Edge Art in Costa Rica: TEOR/éTica
It's an unusually cool, blustery day in February in San Jose, Costa Rica and Gabriela Saenz-Shelby, gallery director of TEOR/eTica walks me through their current exhibit, A Chronicle of Interventions,...
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New York City's Forgotten Places Turned Into Art
By Lindsey DeSimone for Architectural Digest. Vines entangle a former dormitory at Letchworth Village, a state institution that operated from 1911 to 1996 on the outskirts of New York City. Though we...
View ArticleIt's Time to Get Acquainted with Cuba
The Malpaso Dance Company has officially landed in the United States. And according to my sources, their landing is no secret. The performance at Dance Place in Washington is sold out, and two weeks...
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