Some Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written at other places: A review of a fine tribute concert for Leonard Cohen at the Kennedy Center on my Substack. Surveying an exhibition…
Here are some other things I've written at other places: A review of a fine tribute concert for Leonard Cohen at the Kennedy Center on my Substack. Surveying an exhibition…
Here are some other things I've written lately: A survey of 24 museum shows to see at Smithsonian museums in 2024, for SmithsonianMagazine.com Remembering Wayne Kramer, the influential MC5 guitarist,…
Tony-winning Broadway star and groundbreaking Latina singer and dancer Chita Rivera died Tuesday at 91. Remembered for her trailblazing roles in “West Side Story,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Chicago” and “Kiss…
Here are some theater reviews I've done in recent months: A review of Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker" by the Edge of the Universe Theatre, pictured above. A soul music revue…
Signature Theatre in Arlington is helping expand the American Songbook to include rock and pop classics of a half century ago in cabaret shows this winter that will celebrate Leonard…
The Writer’s Center is just the right place to stage a reverent version of one of Harold Pinter’s best known plays. Pinter’s modernist, somewhat absurdist “The Caretaker,” which the Edge…
How do you fit an 800-page Russian classic into a night's ballet? Throw a lot of ballroom dances. There has been a couple of attempts to make Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"…
Aya Ogawa never had a memorial service after their father died. So there's one every night in "The Nosebleed," Ogawa's unusually involving Obie-winning play getting its regional premiere at Woolly…
Like the growing Christmas tree, the grand Tchaikovsky score and the sparkle on the snow queens, there are certain things audiences expect from their annual viewing of "The Nutcracker," and…
Leonardo Da Vinci predated William Shakespeare by half a century; their paths never crossed. Both were artists who changed the world with their vision; each had flinty intellects interested in…