Much has been written, reported, and broadcast about the celebrity death toll in 2016. While it is probably not substantially different from previous years, it did seem that a disproportionate number of major figures left us. I doubt that there has b …Read more

“Maybe given my brains and disposition, I’ll immigrate and be a politician.” So says Dorante, the titular fabulist at the center of David Ives’ adaptation of Corneille’s The Liar now playing at Classic Stage Company. I saw it on a drizzly Inauguratio …Read more

How heartbreaking that on World Holocaust Day 2017, a play about the suffering of Sephardic Jews during the Holocaust seems more relevant than ever. As the new administration has taken on the task of banning refugees and making the lives of non-white …Read more

In Lavender Songs – A Queer Weimar Berlin Cabaret, actor/singer/writer Jeremy Lawrence, in the guise of his alter ego, “kabarettist extraordinaire” Tante Fritzy, manages to turn the tiny stage at Pangea into a veritable time machine, whisking the aud …Read more

Sky-Pony’s concert at The Sheen Center on January 28th is being dubbed as “the most important” in their career so far, and with reason, coming off the success of their musical The Wildness from 2016, and their album Beautiful Monster, it seems like i …Read more

“Can it be that you’re not actually good?” In her solo Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster, Melbourne-based artist Nicola Gunn asks the tough questions of the human condition, all with a wry smile. Gunn’s world is remarkably bright in both style and …Read more

Everyone says that your life changes when you have kids, and DANNYKRISDONNAVERONICA takes those changes to heart, examining the many ways that children and parenthood impact not only the individual but the marriage. In a refreshing look at contempora …Read more

Manual Cinema’s Lula Del Ray is a strange and lovely dream, full of a far-off eerie sadness and sweet mystery, like some kind of apocalyptic lullaby. As delicate as a radio tuned just right to pick up distant 2 A.M. airwaves, the story pours forth in …Read more

Remember those I Spy books with the photographic picture riddles full of miniatures and myriad objects imaginatively arrayed? There was often a surreal quality to these primarily visual books; a feeling of browsing through the freely associated token …Read more

Midway through Erik Ehn’s latest experimental drama Clover, the character of Mamie (played by Laura E. Johnston) reminds the audience that Emmett Till’s murderers sold the story of their hate crime to a publication for four thousand dollars. “This pl …Read more