Born during the Great Depression, Jay Johnson studied at the University of Chicago, the University of Northern Colorado, San Francisco State University and The American Conservatory Theatre. His poetry has appeared in magazines as diverse as Light, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Art and Understanding, and Blue Unicorn. Although his works have been noted by John Crowe Ransom, …
Gustavo Dudamel, 34, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, has been in the news lately. Last week he penned an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times to explain why he does not get involved in politics. A proud Latino, he’s reluctant to criticize the socialist government of his native country, Venezuela, …
While it’s a bit sweeter than is my usual wont, this week’s selection for ScreenDance Diaries is a viable exploration of the intersections of dance, imagination, young love, and a brick wall. Elon & Emmanuelle depicts a young woman who stops to sit at a bench accompanied by a humungous white balloon, and begins to …
Though the memory of Spring Awakening is still green—the original Broadway run of the electric rock musical ended only six years ago—Michael Arden’s jagged and heartfelt rendition for Deaf West Theatre, just transferred to Broadway after a Los Angeles engagement (here’s a link to Sylvie Drake’s review of that production for Cultural Weekly), makes it feel …
There’s a lot to be said about Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ambitious play at the Mark Taper Forum, most of it not encouraging. It’s a piece that has received a good deal of attention in the past couple of years, at Louisville’s Humana new play festival where it surfaced first, followed by full productions at Washington’s …
At the level of cohesive vision and organisational strategy, poetry in Australia is struggling. This is unsurprising, given the protean and multiple quality of poetry. Yet, if we cannot agree on what makes a good sonnet, we might be able to more readily agree that a discussion of sonnets, or any other such form, deserves …
As we live in an age of manufactured phantasms, of public hedonism and private fear, it is difficult to determine the impact social networks have on our mental health and our understanding of the world. Let’s not get carried away and start believing the abyss of a Facebook news feed is a Hive-Mind yet, but …
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