On Broadway “Slave Play” earned twelve Tony nominations – the most of any play ever — but did not take…
Early on in Trouble in Mind, veteran actress Wiletta Mayer (Ramona Keller) sits down with newbie John Nevins (Michael Zachary…
The Philadelphia Ballet’s ‘New Works for a New World’ program features newly commissioned premieres by choreographers Juliano Nunes, Alba Castillo…
“…I’m here to tell you that change is coming
whether they like it or not…” The goddess is refined, emanating from…
It doesn’t take long for a ballet student to grasp that dance is a bundle of contradictions: you go up…
In 2020, the cancellation of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas was an early indication that COVID-19 was just about…
A Life of Picasso IV’ The Minotaur Years is art historian John Richardson’s fine line portrait of the revolutionary artist…
The world premiere “Swept Away” is the tragic tale of four starving shipwrecked sailors — and it’s a musical. But…
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is close to three hours long and what was my first instinct to write? Honestly? It…
There are so many interesting and intriguing aspects to the Iranian film, “A Hero” by writer/director Asghar Farhadi. Not least…
Best of 2021 (Movies) by Andrew Osborne 1. SUMMER OF SOUL Link Like its streaming service companion, Get Back, this…
Evelyn Reed, the Marxist anthropologist author of “Women’s Evolution,” was debating the existence of cannibalism in Africa, when she took…
Virtuoso trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is musical director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and as a composer most known for…
My cultural round-up has usually centered on theater. This year theater finally did come back and hooray for that but…