Michael McDonaghArt & ArchitectureNew York,
It's important to remind people that the West is the new kid on the block because our narcissistic Euro centric worldview is always telling us that "we" did everything first, and everyone else is a late arrival. But that, of ...
Much Ado About Nothing" (June 3 – July 6)
"King Lear" (July 22 – August 17)
Aaron BotwickDestinationsNew York,
“Like one swallow,” wrote John Simon when reviewing the premiere of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," “one Shakespeare does not make a summer.” Fortunately, for the first time since 2011, Shakespeare in the Park is eschewing musicals for two revivals ...
"Everybody’s Out of Step But Me"
Bryan Cranston plays LBJ on Broadway
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
In 1963, Lyndon Baines Johnson (Bryan Cranston) became the first Southern President of the “You-nited States of Am’rica” in one hundred fourteen years—that is, since Virginia’s Zachary Taylor, our twelfth commander-in-chief, who held that position for a total of ...
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
Arnold Bennett, no stranger to the quotidian himself, once accused James Joyce of selecting the “dailiest day” as the subject of his novel Ulysses. Les Misérables, then, could be said to concern itself with the most epical epic: it is the story of a ...
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
“Why, [you’re] the torturer, of course,” Inez (Jolly Abraham) says to Cradeau (Bradford Cover) as she enters Jean-Paul Sartre’s "No Exit." He says that this is “too comic for words,” but of course he is her torturer just as she ...
A play that takes as its subject the prevalence of pornography in American culture reveals some uncomfortable truths about hypocrisy, race, and class as well.
Don SheweyTheaterNew York,
Thomas Bradshaw is a 33-year-old black American playwright who might as well have his middle name legally changed to Provocative, because no one seems to be able to talk or write about his work without conjuring that adjective. The most ...
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
They Know You Exist
Caryl Churchill’s "Love and Information" is a solid one-hour play that happens to run for a little under two hours. Its fifty-seven scenes are connected thematically and not narratively, featuring over one hundred ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierMusicNew York,
My dear late best friend Danny Cariaga, classical music critic extraordinaire of the Los Angeles Times, once observed that people went to Wagner’s operas when they were new because they had more time. But now, with the onslaught of e-mails, ...
Renata PoltDestinationsNY,
A look at a New York state map shows a large, almost bare area in the state’s northern triangle. Compared with the rest of New York, there’s hardly a major road. Instead, there are lakes, rivers, mountains, small towns; and, ...
Susan YungArt & ArchitectureNew York,
New Museum, NYC
http://newmuseum.org/
Reprinted from CV writer Susan Yung’s blog for WNET PBS New York
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/blog/arts/after-nature
Walking over to the shimmering New Museum to see the exhibition After Nature, I stepped over a dead baby bird ...
