You Send Me: The Songs and Soul of Sam Cooke
“It starts with that voice, a voice that stirs…always reaching, yearning, giving us testimony, giving us a story…” Darius de Haas [...]
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Karen Akers: Water Under the Bridge
Karen Akers returns to New York performance like a blazing torch. In a show she declares to be her most personal to date, the artist takes [...]
How I Learned to Drive – Stunning
When many spiders capture a fly, they poison the insect and wrap it in silk for later intermittent consumption. Imagine the fly a sentient [...]
Artemisia Gentileschi: A Star Reborn – Art, Rape, Feminism
Based in part on the Smithsonian Associates Lecture by art historian Aneta Georgievska. “I will show your illustrious lordship what a [...]
Birthday Candles – Like a Warm Bath
Michigan’s Ernestine Ashworth (Debra Messing) is 17 today. We meet as she’s conscripted into helping her mom (Susannah Flood) make an [...]
115 International Summer Music Festivals Welcome Back Audiences and Performers
At last, after a long and challenging absence, international audiences and artists will be gathering in person for many more summer [...]
To My Girls – (It’s a Toast)
Playwright JC Lee has one finger on the zeitgeist, the other on Boys in the Band, to which his play might arguably be called a successor. [...]
Penelope – Or How The Odyssey Was Really Written – Ruinously Camp
Homer never wrote a word of the epic poems attributed to him. To this day, authorship of The Iliad, centered on a ten year siege of Troy by [...]
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