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Mikhail Baryshnikov Transforms Chekhov in Santa Monica
Man in a Case. Photograph by T. Charles Erickson If you're a fan of Mikhail Baryshnikov, or think you know your Chekhov from your Pushkin, Man in a Case might be your theatrical cup of tea. Adapted...
View ArticleTheater: NPH Is... Wait For It... Epic In 'Hedwig;' Daniel Radcliffe Is...
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH *** out of **** THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN *** out of **** THE GREAT IMMENSITY * 1/2 out of **** HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH *** out of **** BELASCO THEATRE A Broadway house...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: The Civilians Confront Climate Change With "The Great Immensity"
It's taken for granted that any superior drama depends on its stakes being high. If that's the case, then The Great Immensity -- created by the always-intrepid Civilians troupe and presented at the...
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Trying to Sustain a Charade
Keeping up appearances sometimes requires extraordinary effort. A lot can be overlooked when someone is young, pretty, perky and in good health. But when tragic events darken one's days, desperate...
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Frederica von Stade in Tour de Force Performance
Photo by Lynn Lane A Coffin in Egypt, a rarely produced 1980 play by Horton Foote would seem an unlikely subject for an opera, but in the hands of the marvelous Frederica von Stade and the talented...
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A Conversation With Chris Davies, Founder, 'Photo Independent: The...
Chris Davies is the President of Fabrik Media, a Los Angeles-based publishing and marketing agency. Concerned by the art fair under-representation of otherwise talented photographers, he founded "Photo...
View ArticleArtists' Assistants and the IRS
Not a trick question: Are artists' "employees," or are they "independent contractors"? There are reasons why artists may want them to be a little bit of both. Many employers, including artists, prefer...
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Why Life May Not Be a Cabaret & More Tony Musings
Well, the Administration Committee did it, they ruled Cabaret Tony eligible. I wrote previously about how there would be precedent for that ruling (including precedent involving the show Cabaret), but...
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A Parent's Worst Nightmare
History and literature are filled with stories about children who have been separated from their parents. In some tales, children wander from home (Hansel and Gretel) or are lost by inattentive parents...
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The Similarity of Poets and Madmen: The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions...
Dylan Marron, Christopher Borg, Cara Francis, Roberta Colindrez, and Cecil Baldwin in The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Vol. 2, produced by the New York NeoFuturists....
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Searching for Connections, in Panama
Film producing is about making connections, getting in touch with the right person at the right time, having a good sense of what works, what sells, and who will be the next star, either in front or...
View ArticleOn the Future of Wagnerism, Part 2: Jewish Wagnerites and Wagner Societies
Part 1 of "On The Future of Wagnerism," "Do New Revelations of Hitler's Taste in Art Cast New Light on Wagner Appreciation?" was published on Huffington Post, 2/18/14. Part 1 of "On The Future of...
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Storefronts
Soprano Ok-ja Lim, in Rainer Ganahl's "El Mundo" In the last hour of yesterday's Sunday stroll through the Lower East Side gallery scene, I stumbled upon a wonderful sub-theme of storefronts and the...
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Celebrities Turn Out For New York Pops Gala, Transform It Into The Great...
Stars of stage and screen, Debra Messing ("Will & Grace," "Smash," "Outside Mullingar") with her beau, leading man, Will Chase ("Nashville," "Smash," "The Mystery of Edwin Drood") Last night, the...
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Cooking Art History: Savoring Silence
This past weekend I taught a class at ESMoA inspired by its latest Experience, SILENCE. The exhibit explores the path of abstraction in art, a path that goes hand in hand with our ways of perceiving...
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Kohn Gallery Goes Hollywood: This Artweek.LA (April 28, 2014)
Mark Ryden: The Gay 90s - West | Kohn Gallery announces the inaugural exhibition of its new, expansive 12,000-square foot space with new work by Los Angeles-based, Pop-Surrealist artist Mark Ryden....
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Photographer Rick Ashley: Altering Perceptions Through Portraiture
Not all art is good art. There is a very small percentage of art that even gets the opportunity to hang in galleries and on museum walls. Some art earns that label of being kitsch, essentially, done in...
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The Temptation of Moses Feigin
Florid in palette, thick and gestural in style, and rich in sublime allegory, the work of Russian avant-garde painter Moses Feigin has been largely unknown in West. But now, a few years after his death...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Simon Russell Beale Monarchic in HD King Lear
There's no way around it. It's the year of King Lear and King Lears. We've already had Frank Langella at Brooklyn's BAM. Michael Pennington just finished roaming the heath across that Brooklyn street...
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Separated and United by Art
The life and art of two well-known artists --Jerome Witkin and Joel-Peter Witkin, two brothers, who also happen to be identical twins (b. 1939)--is perfect fodder for an over-the-top Hollywood movie....
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