Michael Gardner directs his new adaptation of Jean Cocteau's novella, creating a lurid phantasmagoria of mental warping animated by rabid performances.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Ford/Hill Project’ at BAM
Derived entirely from transcripts of the Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford hearings, the play zigzags fluidly between the two, emphasizing how little has fundamentally changed since 1991.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Safe House’ by L.B. Browne
This gripping experience is likely to leave you thankful for whatever healthy family relationships you might have.
Read More »Music Review: Composer Nirmali Fenn – ‘When Apathy Is Betrayal’
There's a sense of splintering throughout the suite, of dissociation and the associated discomfort – all conveyed through a sonic palette suffused with beauty.
Read More »Music Review: SPLICE Ensemble – ‘Ansible’
Past, present, and future mythologies inspired composers Steven L. Ricks, Caroline Louise Miller, and Elainie Lillios to create experimental new music for the trumpet, piano, and percussion trio SPLICE Ensemble
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Alice Won’t Die’ by Grace Tomblin Marca
A screw-up gets a trio of killers-for-hire in trouble and the only solution is another murder. But just how did it happen? 'Alice Won't Die' asks us to decide whose perspective to trust.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Real Ivanov’ by Anton Chekhov
Having lost his grip on his life's thread, Chekhov's antihero Nikolai Ivanov's plight was all too "real" from the start.
Read More »Music Review: Jeff Anderle, Bass Clarinet – ‘Warp & Weft,’ Music by Marc Mellits
Marc Mellits continues to mold his unique short-attention-span minimalism that combines seriousness of purpose with a spirit of play.
Read More »Music Review: Diego Tedesco – ‘Varietas’
On Diego Tedesco's first portrait album, the composer uncovers fresh seams of gold in well-explored mines of atonality and abstraction.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘benevolent’ by Sophie McIntosh
The play reveals how the Inwood Benevolent Home's soothing name masked harsh conditions for "fallen" women under the Magdalene Society.
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