January 9, 2019

Dear Evan Hansen Offers a Poignant and Timely Musical for Our Times

When Dear Evan Hansen first opened on Broadway in December 2016, the unassuming musical about the now iconic high schooler with his arm in a cast and a catchy score became a surprise hit. The show’s fresh-faced lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were relative unknowns. But all that has changed dramatically. Together with Steven Levenson, …

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And So Say All of Us

Former Choreographer/Performance Artist and now Filmmaker Mitchell Rose is perhaps currently best known for his often comedic dance films which have won 87 festival awards internationally. His films are great at making connections – spanning distance and time zones – as seen with such films as “Globe Trot” and “Exquisite Corps” – seamlessly morphing mid-movement …

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Book Review: All That Wasted Fruit by Arminé Iknadossian

Arminé Iknadossian’s mother would gather olives from the trees that grew just outside of her daughter’s high school; she couldn’t imagine all of that wonderful fruit going to waste. Iknadossian has not written a poem for this image she remembers all of these years later, but perhaps all of the poems in her first collection …

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