Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) is a contemporary American portrait painter known for his highly naturalistic portraits of modern-day Black people…
Fortunately (with apologies to Remy Charlip) Unfortunately, when we exited the Opera House after the program ended, we saw that…
It’s harvest time in rural Northern Ireland. A time of hard work, but also an occasion for exuberant celebration as…
Over the last several years, I’ve read and reviewed more than a handful of AIDS-related memoirs — Peter Staley’s Never…
Aiden Levy’s “Saxophone Colossus” is an engrossing portrait of jazz musician Sonny Rollins. Rollins, now 92, stopped performing a decade…
Not too many stories have the legs of Frances Hodson Burnett’s 1911 novel, The Secret Garden. As a child you…
Signature Theatre Company’s enthralling revival of “A Bright New Boise” opened recently in a new production with an outstanding company…
In the romantic tragedy “Giselle,” the most important dramatic character, the games keeper Hilarion (Nathaniel Remez), is the one most…
“I climbed into the world without a destiny.” Baba: The Life & Death of Stana–authored, composed and keenly directed…
While football is America’s most popular sport, baseball is where we go to address our demons. Under a Baseball Sky…
Few plays could seem more intriguing to me than a noir mystery set in San Francisco. Written by Obie Award-winning…
“Are we meant to take more than we give?Or are we meant to be kind? And if only fools are…
If you have ever imagined yourself attending a fantasy dinner party where Leonardo da Vinci is a guest, the closest…
Mozart may be the master of opera buffa. The current cast in LA Opera’s production of The Marriage of Figaro…