A family’s struggle to survive in post-apocalyptic America is bleak subject matter, but the New York City premiere of Dog Days, a groundbreaking chamber opera with intrusive elements of heavy metal music, manages to give us a small ember of hope amid …Read more
I recently spent some time with a friend’s three-year-old daughter, and watched the girl playing with a baby doll in a toy stroller. I noticed the tender seriousness with which she cared for her inanimate child, scolding it occasionally as she maneuv …Read more
I went into Early Morning Opera’s The Institute of Memory (TIMe), the captivating new play by Lars Jan, with two misconceptions. I’ll start with the first, which was swiftly and easily set to right and return to the second later on – I had been prono …Read more
Playing an all-Tchaikovsky program,the night of January 6, 2016 at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra proved they are at the very top of their game. Under the conduction of the extraordinary Louis Langrée, the orche …Read more
In Yellow Day, Drew Seeley plays a man whose worldview is changed during the title day; time during which god reveals himself to people in need. The faith-based film is set in real life Camp Grace and aims to shed light on the struggles of people in …Read more
Performance artist John Kelly is known for his emotionally and intellectually complex works in which he draws from elements of his own life, current politics and other arts. Going from writing, to singing, to acting, Kelly is always on the lookout fo …Read more
Nobody does organized fandom better than Melissa Anelli, the popular author and webmistress, is also the co-owner of Mischief Management, the company behind conventions: LeakyCon, GeekyCon and starting in 2016, BroadwayCon. Anelli, who was one of the …Read more
One of the most talked about international theatre pieces of the decade is finally making its New York debut at the Under the Radar festival. In Germinal (January 6-9), Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort use various elements to build the world from s …Read more
Guillermo Calderón’s Escuela (January 13-17 at the Public Theater) takes place in 1987 Chile and focuses on the efforts of a group of young activists who are training to help overthrow Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. Concealing their identi …Read more
In Now I’m Fine (January 12-17), Ahamefule J. Oluo leads a band of musicians who help him tell a story about “keeping it together”. The pop-opera takes inspiration from events in Oluo’s life and features vocalist okanomodé. Oluo was kind enough to re …Read more