When Misty Copeland became the first African American to be made a principal dancer in the seventy-five year history of American Ballet Theater this past week, it marked a small but significant step forward in the world of classical dance and a tiny step towards leveling the playing field. Long the stuff of fantasy for …
Some people say that criticism is a lot easier to write than a play. Of course it is. It’s also better if it’s lucid, which a play does not have to be. A play can be dense, suspicious, indirect, gripping, make no sense and still be wonderful. So writing a lucid critique of a non-lucid …
Los Angeles sizzles in summer, its denizens favoring bright colors, tropical beverages, and long, languid days by the pool. For those of us living downtown, there’s the lure of the streets with their splashes of crazy and preference for everything “cool.” Here’s my take on July…
Parker Posey has been blessed to work with so many visionary indie directors of her time. Richard Linklater helped to launch Posey’s career with Dazed and Confused in 1993. As a staple in the films of Hal Hartley (Flirt, Amateur, and his trilogy, Henry Fool, Fay Grim, and Ned Rifle) and Christopher Guest (Waiting for …
Playwright Wendy Graf has taken on a sizzling subject in her one-woman play, All-American Girl, a contrapuntal title that gives you little idea of what the piece has in store. It is a mouthful of a monologue, in terms of the complexity of the subject-mater and the demands made of each of the two actors …
The basic question I want to ask is: Where are reviews of performances in our poetry press now? And what does this say about the discourse around orality? Reviews of readings appear too infrequently to my mind and require major events in order to be cited rather than drawing on the regularity of that which …
Michelle Roberts is an MA candidate at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and an editorial assistant for Prairie Schooner. Michelle co-curates the No Name Reading Series in Lincoln, Nebraska where she currently resides. ***** Today Is A Man At The Post Office Who Did Not Hold The Door Open For Me Today is a …
A summering environmental perspective. At summertime the call of shorelines, any shoreline, becomes irresistible, consistent with the season’s sensual ambiance. Together with this sensorial aspect comes an intuitive one, a subtle message, picked up by some poets and philosophers that makes us aware that, at any shoreline, the piece of earth we are standing on …
Fifty years ago, in August of 1965, the black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence, which followed an incident of systemic police abuse. In honor of that historical moment in time, and of the LA Riots of 1992, Grand Performances hosted a free summer concert series titled Aftershock. The series …
In Western European and Asian cultures, urban gardens offering a sense of peace and tranquility, are notable for their individualities. They contribute a sense of civility to the societies which host them. Some of them are private, others are public. When one is in the presence of a notable garden, the experience is gratifying and …
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