First Nighter: Little Me Big and Christian Borle Even Bigger
When Little Me opened in November 1962, its major pluses were Sid Caesar, the Carolyn Leigh-Cy Coleman score and the rarely-miss Neil Simon gags. Revived at City Center this weekend in an Encores!...
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Artist Profile: Ian David Rosenbaum, Brooklyn-Based New Music Percussionist
Ian David Rosenbaum works extensively with new music, specializing in chamber music. He is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two program, as well as a number of other music...
View ArticleWhy I'm Comfortable Producing Porn
If stories that restore your faith in humanity are your thing, or you're quick to click on a video with the words "heartwarming" or "inspiring," you might be a recreational good news porn addict. But...
View ArticlePolitical Read: I Wanted to Be Paul
WASHINGTON -- This is a good a time to thank The Beatles. They got me through high school by popularizing the idea of teen rock bands. It was all part of growing up in the 60s. We were the first...
View ArticleReaders, Writers, Non-Readers and Me
I love my readers. I would write regardless, but all authors whom I know appreciate readers -- those who are indifferent to them likely aren't the sort of people whom one ever comes to know. I welcome...
View ArticleWhy I Love Opera and You Should Too
Even if Renee Fleming's performance at the Super Bowl hadn't introduced opera to the national conversation, I would be making this announcement: I love opera. And I am fully aware that that statement...
View ArticleBallet Is an Art, Not a Sport
Before I begin, I must preface this by mentioning the fact that ballet is competitive. Ballerinas are extremely competitive with each other and the ballet world has a hint of a cutthroat culture....
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Bring On the Night: The Photography of Andy Summers
In 1958, Andy Summers took a bus across his seaside hometown of Bournemouth, England, grasping a guitar without a case. He was heading off to play with a dance band in a local hotel, and several people...
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Prague Wows With a Cornucopia of Stunning 20th-Century Architecture and...
When planning my recent trip to Prague, I knew that a bouquet of architecture and design would be presented to me upon my arrival. Of course, because Prague has so much age and history, there would be...
View ArticlePolitical Read: I Wanted to Be Paul
WASHINGTON -- This is a good a time to thank The Beatles. They got me through high school by popularizing the idea of teen rock bands. It was all part of growing up in the 60s. We were the first...
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By The Light of the Feminist Moon
In 1968, Virginia Slims cigarettes introduced a new marketing slogan ("You've come a long way, baby!") in its effort to increase its appeal to female smokers. In truth, much of the world has come a...
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Silence, El Segundo Museum of Art
As befits an art space that calls itself a "lab," the interior of the El Segundo Museum of Art is sparse. In the center of the space rests a chair and, piled with art books, a small table. The walls...
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Stage Door: The Tribute Artist, Three Little Birds
"You confuse nasty with a European sense of irony," diva designer Adriana says with barely concealed glee. A rich widow who lives in a gorgeous Greenwich Village townhouse, she can afford her...
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F. Scott Hess: The Perfect Hess-Storm
What a year Los Angeles artist F. Scott Hess is having: his works are simultaneously on view in a two-part retrospective, and a one-man gallery show. His deadpan historically-themed mockmentary and...
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Mia Liu Transforms 60,000 Guggenheim Museum Tickets Into Art (VIDEO)
In this video, Taiwanese artist Mia Liu tells the story of how she used 60,000 tickets of New York's Guggenheim Museum to create a large-scale trompe l'oeil artwork. Titled Guggen' Dizzy, the op...
View ArticleHow Artists Can Use Social Media to Discover and Promote Their Voice
"Every artist was first an amateur." -Emerson Recently, an up-and-coming actor friend paid me the wonderful compliment of following my advice regarding how to promote herself on social media. She...
View ArticleHe, She, and Charles Busch
If you need a good laugh (and these days, who doesn't?) you can always count on Charles Busch. In or out of drag, he's a movie-obsessed queen of comedy whose plays such as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and...
View ArticleA Great Grand Partnership for Arts and Culture
The last three years I have been following the arts and culture struggle in my own country, the Netherlands, and also in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and a little bit in Australia...
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The Extraordinary And Everlasting Love Between One Super Dad And His Daughter
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was standing outside the airport terminal in Michigan, eager to get to Spain already. I was headed to Barcelona for a semester abroad and couldn't wait to leave...
View ArticleBorderless Creativity
It is undeniable that creativity is one of the most important aspects of any profession. For an artist being creative is a matter of life or death. If you are not creative, you can't be an artist....
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