Flickering candles and colorful baubles adorn mantles and tables worldwide as the holiday season approaches. While traditions and celebrations vary from place to place, music is the global c…
Two cloud-patterned companions weave through throngs of paper mâché creatures as the world expands around them, offering new experiences for them to explore and create. At Cirque du Sole…
It's a refrain that's graced the ears of parents since the dawn of time: "You don't understand!" Regardless of the amount of children's books and adages that teach about empathy or walking a…
Bookcases filled with seemingly innocuous tchotchkes (worth 24 points in Scrabble, +50 if you manage to use your seven letters for a "bingo" on either side of the word "hot") ensconce a puzz…
Cast your line off the askew wooden dock, a distressed beach shack behind you, and dangling fairy lights overhead, and you're sure to catch a nostalgic performance of the jukebox musical, "E…
Two pianos sit under a simple, wooden, A-frame house, lit by the yellow glow of string bulb lights, settling the audience into the life of the March household during the Civil War. Louisa Ma…
Framed by an open stage and wearing all-black clothing, Brad Zimmerman maneuvers around his simple set of a chair and a table beset with a single rose in a vase and a childhood sports trophy…
 Six improv comedians walk into a theater and… well, I'm not very good at improv. The cast of The Second City's "The Revolution will be Improvised" are more than qualified to come up w…
"Whodunits" are aptly named because at the end of the story, well, you find out who 'dun it. However, when Charles Dickens passed away without finishing his novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Droo…
Classical theater is flush with the self-indulgent concept of a "play within a play"""Hamlet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The King and I," to name a few. In the modern era, this devic…
          Sitting enraptured in an audience chair listening to Taylor Raven adeptly maneuver her way through "Una voce poco fa," her rhythmic precision being o…
When a restaurant brands themselves as being "modern," one can undoubtedly expect to partake in an elaborate ritual concocted of seemingly endless and over-specific courses: drinks with choi…