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Wonder-ful Tale: A Short Interview with Then She Fell's Marissa Nielsen-Pincus
You might leave Then She Fell with more questions than answers, but that's part of the amazement. This immersive theater experience pushes you to examine the limits of reality and to free your mind to...
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Hong Kong Zeros in on Creativity
We have known for some time that public art with sculptures, statues, and murals everywhere, and buildings with their uniquely carved doorways, cornices, and columns are usually what distinguish one...
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'Orpheus,' Four Larks, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy of Eugene Lee; collage courtesy of Stephanie Butterworth. Orpheus: A Junkyard Opera, directed by Mat Sweeney and Sebastian Peters-Lazaro, marks Four Larks' auspicious Los Angeles debut....
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses Can't Be Kept Up With
On the subway home from The Realistic Joneses, Will Eno's second play this season and now at the Lyceum after a 2012 Yale Repertory Theatre stay, I noticed that the woman seated across from me was also...
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'Literature Is My Utopia': Eventi Letterari Monte Verità in Ascona
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or...
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Jodorowsky's Dune
Was Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune, "the greatest movie never made?" The South African director Richard Stanley makes that claim in Frank Pavich's documentary about the ill fated project, currently...
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Greg Miller's Painterly Pop
Greg Miller: Buena Vista Now through April 30, 2014 Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco About ten years ago, American painter Greg Miller admitted the truth -- that he's a Pop artist -- and it felt good to...
View ArticleMy Take on All the Way
After an agonizingly slow ride on the local train to New York, through a string of Connecticut towns, some blighted, some not, with the detritus alongside the track piling up more and more as we...
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Painted City: Looking at Art on the Streets of Detroit
Interstate 94 leading into Detroit is bordered by tall walls adorned with decorative tiles patterned with stylized motifs of windswept leaves. The design is quaint, but its charm marred by peeling...
View Article'The Realistic Joneses': Welcome to Will Eno's Neighborhood
The first thing you should know about The Realistic Joneses is that none of the four characters in Will Eno's play have much more than a nodding acquaintance with reality. The second is that it is...
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The Creative Process in Eight Stages
I made a great big canvas. For three weeks it sat in the center of the studio like Jack's massive desk in The Shining. No matter how many "painting miles" I've earned, there's really nothing more...
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Artists Band Together to Celebrate Beloved Magical Girl Characters
The magical girl trope -- that is, stories involving young girls with magical powers -- has been around since the 1960s. Though most commonly found fluttering around Japanese anime (cartoons) and...
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Uncovering the Mystery Behind Bryce Dessner's St. Carolyn by the Sea
Since Deutsche Grammaphon/Universal Music released conductor André de Ridder and the Copenhagen Phil's St. Carolyn by the Sea -- a collection of orchestral compositions by both The National's Bryce...
View ArticleThe Bollywood Oscars Are Coming to Tampa Bay
On April 23 to April 26, the 15th annual International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) weekend and awards will be taking place in Tampa Bay, Florida. The IIFA awards, known as "The Oscars of Bollywood" are...
View ArticleA Day at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Maxwell Hearn speaks with Scarlett Zuo Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art holds one of the largest collection of Asian art in the Western world, with over 35,000...
View ArticleLila Downs Finds Three-Part Harmony Among Countries
Lila Downs was born with one foot in each of three cultures. Her father was from Minnesota while her mother was Mexican, and Downs was brought up in both countries. In addition, her mom was very proud...
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Ginger Man: Scott P. Harris, Red Hair and Redheads on Film
Scott P. Harris, via beingginger.co.uk A sweet, earnest redheaded guy from America moves to Edinburgh, Scotland. Bullied as a boy for his copper hair, he hopes and expects this will never happen in...
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An Interview With Ben Rimalower: 'The Lady's Got Potential'
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with writer, director, and performer Ben Rimalower about his upcoming show at Birdland, The Lady's Got Potential, featuring Natalie Joy Johnson, Molly Pope,...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Martha Clarke's "Threepenny Opera" Short-Changes
Not to put too fine a point on it, director-choreographer Martha Clarke's version of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill Threepenny Opera, at the Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater, seeps across the footlights...
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Dr. Kevorkian, aka Dr. Death's Art on Display
We were invited to the opening of the Dr. Kevorkian art exhibit at Gallerie Sparta in West Hollywood. It was a somber event with 11 of Dr. Kevorkian's paintings on display as well as the "Thanatron,"...
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