Andrew Schneider, inventor of the Solar Bikini (capable of charging your iPod), and wireless, programmable, sound effect gloves, walks a high tech tightrope between grand design and accessible theater. The test tube child of Einstein and Houdini, Sch …Read more

The Improbable Fall, Rise & Fall of John Law: A New Play About Money, is a long title indeed, but then a shorter one wouldn’t do the real John Law’s improbable life justice. At over two hours long, it is but part one, as in the fall and rise. The …Read more

Long before WikiLeaks, visible news story holes, contrary reports, debunking satire and a broad subsection of society began programming their own media, people had already grown accustomed to the manipulative handling of their psyches and opinions in …Read more

Artist Tom Sachs really loves space, the exploration of it, and the vessels that make such a thing possible. Sachs also loves DIY. Infatuated by the Apollo Project, his sculptures over the years have mimicked various lunar model parts to stellar effe …Read more

“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing the contents seem to be”, wrote Arthur C. Clarke in the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. Alongside a surfeit of advanced predictions, Clarke was on the mark. To add t …Read more

An ugly rumor persists about a certain beautiful blonde bombshell who died in the early sixties, and the line-up of mortuary staff whom succeeded in having their wicked way with the dead superstar. There are plenty of necrophilia stories. The odds ar …Read more

From every action and decision made, there are consequences. Social psychologist Stanley Milgram, eager to understand those that assisted with or turned a blind eye to the systematic atrocities of the Holocaust, carried out a series of obedience expe …Read more

The decade characterized by its counter culture, rock and roll hedonism and civil rights movement would take a good few years from its onset to fully take shape. The early sixties, in many ways a covetous extension of the previous decade, were shaped …Read more

A set-piece in miniature, a school boarding house, emanates little glimmers of warmth as the window lights switch on one by one. The bare trees of Santo Loquasto’s set design suggest a cool, lonesome atmosphere by contrast. In Prodigal Son, presented …Read more

Infrequent yet ominous piano music penetrates a summer retreat, crammed with the accouterments of artistic craft and disharmony. Adolph (Josh Tyson), an artist belittled by a desperate love for his writer wife Tekla (Elise Stone) and the tangled webs …Read more