Playing Around

A brief, pianistic overture is so atmospheric, it almost makes the room overcast. Israeli vocalist Yael Rasooly walks slowly from the back [...]

You can barely make out a Victorian London skyline for some of the best theatrical fog I’ve experienced. Burt Grinstead’s dramatic, [...]

“Issued in 1942 by the American War Office, the pamphlet Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain aimed to prepare GIs for their [...]

Shana Farr, a self-described ‘dreamer’ performed a revelatory dream-themed new cabaret show at the historic Players Club opposite [...]

Jason Gotay’s “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” is everything one would hope Curly McLain’s opening salvo to represent. Gotay is [...]

Perhaps the most extraordinary aspect of iconoclast Taylor Mac is that as playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, [...]

I’m sitting with magician/mentalist Gary Ferrar in a room beneath Oxbow Tavern on Columbus Avenue where once a month he’s [...]

Hans Christian Andersen’s (1805-1875) fairy tales are embedded in our culture. Rife with disguised lessons, appreciated by children and [...]