ASPEN - Why do artists tend to struggle in disproportionate numbers with addiction and madness? Is it that the brain chemistry that lavishes creativity also plagues a mind with destructive t…
ASPEN - Why do artists tend to struggle in disproportionate numbers with addiction and madness? Is it that the brain chemistry that lavishes creativity also plagues a mind with destructive t…
This past Thursday and Friday I had the honor of attending a convening on global performance, civic imagination, and cultural diplomacy at Georgetown University, hosted by Derek Goldman a…
The full line-up has been announced for the second season of Broadway at The Art House in Provincetown this summer.
As previously reported, Patti LuPone will open the season with concerts J…
Between the foibles and hopes of middle-age and the vast perfection of nature, the documentary Low and Clear finds its compelling rhythms and its poetry.
What to make of Valerie Blass? It's a question the fast-rising Montreal-based sculptress seems to ask of herself time and again. The Art Gallery of Hamilton has just opened a half-size versi…
A new musical about the life of art deco artist Tamara de Lempicka will get a priviate June 15 Manhattan reading featuring Julia Murney and Kevin Earley.
In a small, nondescript room tucked away on the ninth floor of an out-of-use office building in Crystal City, artist Rachel Farbiarz has tugged the ancient concept of genizah into the 21st c…
June 11, 2012 By Mark Lamos, Playhouse Artistic DirectorMark Lamosphoto by Kathleen O'RourkeOne of the perks of my job as artistic director is a chance to watch other directors in…
Lois Kirschenbaum, 79, shows up nightly for opera and ballet performances, determinedly getting into the show on the cheap and often meeting the performers by the stage door afterward.
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit,” William Faulkner said …
Paul Gonsalves on the Road will be performed at the Capital Fringe Festival from July 21st through the 29th. As any jazz listener or follower of the Duke Ellington Orchestra knows, Paul Gons…
June 4, 2012By Nina SankovitchAuthor of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, a memoir of a year of reading a book a day and rediscovering joy, after experiencing terrible grief.I remember reading T…
Virginia Madsen and Steven Weber are set to perform A Work Of Art, Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karams first play which he wrote at age 17, at 20 Years of Winners Scenes, Songs, and Speec…
Betty Buckley and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will present two benefit concerts on June 19 and 20 featuring students from Buckley's recent Song Interpretation Workshops.
The p…