I’ve been having discussions recently with TV networks – most of whom are suffering a decline of ratings. While piracy and cord-cutting are partly to blame, I think many of the networks have abandoned their original identities and thus their core constituencies – they didn’t treat their customers with enough respect. The key to success …
Julie Hébert’s continuing series Look What She Did! features the incomparable Alice Tuan sharing her admiration for feminist playwright and theatre director Rachel Crothers, who had great success in the American commercial theater… over a hundred years ago. Rachel Crothers wrote and directed her own plays on Broadway in the early twentieth century, opening up …
100 Years Later, Rachel Crothers Inspires Playwright Alice Tuan Read More »
The devils have all the fun and the angels are pretty dull in Andrei Belgrader’s production of Doctor Faustus, adapted by Belgrader and David Bridel from Christopher Marlowe’s play, now at Classic Stage Company. Derived from a German legend, this late 16th century morality tale concerns the bargain the titular scholar strikes with Mephistopheles, first …
At 25 years old, the multi-award winning, so-called “Bad Boy” of ballet – Sergei Polunin – is seemingly still a young upstart. In 2003, at a mere 13 years old, Polunin left Kyiv Choreographic Institute to join the prestigious British Royal Ballet School. Six years later, he became a soloist, and then by 2010, the …
Glendale – June 13, 2015 Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre premiered their latest dance performance titled Brush Up at the Glendale Brand Municipal Gallery. This production was created in collaboration with Tokyo-based calligraphy artist Isa Hirano, combining traditional Japanese calligraphy with site specific art. Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre’s initiative has aimed to direct innovative dance experiences …
There was plenty of laughter at the opening night of Bad Jews at The Geffen Playhouse last week. A kind of willful determination to have a cracking good time. The guffaws kept coming, fueled, as they so often are on opening nights, by family, colleagues, friends and, in this case, a tribe. I belong to …
Dance and music aficionados in the neighborhood of Boston and/or in the general vicinity of Massachusetts, I’m very excited to present a new work at MASS MoCA’s Solid Sound Festival. On Sunday June 28th at 1 pm, Sarah Elgart / Arrogant Elbow will premiere an untitled new work, which will include music by guitarist extraordinaire Nels Cline, live …
Sarah Elgart / Arrogant Elbow at MASS MoCA’s SOLID SOUND Read More »
In the past week, we have seen a racist gunman take lives in a black church, a white woman claim black identity, and the Confederate flag fly full-staff while the US flag draped in half-mast sorrow. Our country is still fighting the Civil War. The question of blackness has long troubled American art, too. Now …
General considerations Summer is finally here as a time of possibilities after a winter of constraints, when hanging out, as a mindset defined by being open to possibilities, leads us to search for live places made livelier by the clemency of summer. The feature image captures perhaps the spirit of it, as benches surrounding a …
There are elections and then there are elections. The latest one to capture my imagination was for the Oxford Professor of Poetry. There is no place like Oxford, and perhaps fittingly, there is no role like this anywhere in the world. Established in 1708, the professorship was created by an endowment from the estate of …
There is a little cream puff of a play going on at International City Theatre (ICT) in Long Beach. It’s called The Heir Apparent and comes from the pen of a favorite playwright. His name is David Ives and his earmarks are a nimble mind with plenty of wit delivered with a very light hand. For …
Get Ready! Cultural Weekly’s Jack Grapes Poetry Prize Poetry Contest opens on July 1st, 2015. We will publish the submission URL and information on July 1. No submissions will be accepted before that date. Cash prizes of $250 for first place, $150 for second place, and $100 for third place, including publication in Cultural Weekly. In …
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