First Nighter: Kathryn Forbes' I Remember Mama Well Remembered
I Remember Mama, John Van Druten's adaptation of Mama's Bank Account, Kathryn Forbes' memoir of her early 20th-century San Francisco upbringing, opened on Broadway October 19, 1944, with Mady...
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How to Start a Movement: A Movie Review of 'Chavez'
How To Start A Movement A movie review of Chavez Lloyd I. Sederer, MD "Si se puede!" Yes we can! Cesar Chavez asserts to a restive crowd of California migrant workers whose hope has worn too thin....
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The Angle on Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
Chapter III of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac: Vol. I, demonstrates the effect of his central character's actions on others. The character, Joe (whose youthful and grown selves are played respectively...
View ArticleBouncing Off the Brick Wall
Brick walls are underrated. Just because a phone doesn't ring with job offers doesn't mean that it's gone completely silent. If you're lucky, if you've been through it a time or two, when you hit a...
View ArticleHow Idina Menzel's Portrayal of Frozen's Elsa Finally Set Wicked's Elphaba Free
Before Queen Elsa's blizzard tore through Arendelle, the voice behind the icy blonde tore through Oz's Western sky. I was 12 years old the first time I experienced Idina Menzel's powerhouse voice. I...
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Accomplice
Housed at the Walnut Street Theater, a small, but intimate setting, the cast of Accomplice hurriedly prepared themselves as a steady crowd of people gathered in the lobby for a thriller of a play. Now...
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An Expanding Universe: Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance
At the center of the Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, the shiny Unisphere sits as a relic of the controversial 1964 New York World's Fair. Dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking...
View ArticleDoes Ballet Class Have an Age Limit?
I take ballet class with a woman who is turning 90-years-old at the end of April. (And she's not the teacher -- she's a student, like me!) Clearly, my Saturday morning adult ballet class is host to a...
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Firemen at the Echo Theater in Los Angeles
Beginning with the trial and conviction of schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau for having an affair with an underage student, the national media have taken a predictably salacious view of affairs...
View ArticleSo, You Want to Write a Book?*
(*Awesome. I'm always looking for good books to read.) Recently, I've had a spate of people contact me, looking for help writing a book. Not editing or grammatical help, thank god, but help more along...
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What's Right With Disney's Broadway Adaptation of Aladdin
It's safe to say that when you hear the name Aladdin, the popular word association is Disney's beloved 1992 animated blockbuster based on a timeless Middle Eastern fantasy. But what you may not know...
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Beautiful Sunsets (and Sunrises) in Art
Many people have, over the years, told me that I shouldn't judge a book by its cover. But no one ever told me that I shouldn't judge a sunset (or sunrise) by its beauty. After all these years, a group...
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MOCA Gala 35th Anniversary (PHOTOS)
On Saturday March 29, 2014 I captured an art world star-studded cast of luminaries at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as part of my continuing N(art)rative Series; a series that captures the important...
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Ballet de Du Grand Théâtre de Genève: Holla, the Swiss Are in the House!
March 25-31 at the Joyce It takes more than a good share of talent, energy and choreographic expertise to deliver 65 minutes of non-stop exhilarating movement, but the 20 dancers of the Ballet du Grand...
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Stage Door: Heathers
Heathers the Musical proves high school is a killer -- literally. Twenty-five years ago, the teen cult film starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in a twisted tale of adolescent cruelty and angst....
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Praying a Broadway Baby Quits the Booze
April 2014 Re: An Open Letter to Elaine Stritch Dear Ms. Stritch, I'm not unique, per se. I'm just another one of your fans who has spent many years idolizing you for your work in theater, cabaret,...
View ArticleThe Geek's Guide to the Writing Life: MFA vs. NYC vs CT
Two juicy titles recently debuted at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Seattle this year, MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction and Now What: The Creative...
View ArticleNicola Tyson on the ImageBlog
Graphite Drawing #4, 2010; Graphite on paper, 25 x 19 inches
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"ART GIRLS" (R)evolution in Berlin
ART GIRLS opens 10 ACHTUNG BERLIN at the Babylon Kino in the Mitte of the post-unification art scene. Billed as a romantic science fiction film genre-hopping into satire, ART GIRLS amounts to a full...
View ArticleChew On This: Operatic Mastication
Opera lovers have been on the edge of their proverbial seats waiting to hear the latest about yet another company having trouble. No sooner did the news of the New York City Opera bankruptcy moderately...
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