The superb cast of 'Cult of Love' during their Christmas celebration of love, angst and chaos.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey’ – a New Work by Richard Foreman and Object Collection
With all its high-tech spectacle and stagecraft, Richard Foreman's first new work in a decade revels in the retro
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library’ – A Prison-cell Drama with a Twist
Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader envisions what might have taken place during Arendt's eight-day imprisonment in 1933 Berlin.
Read More »Art Book Review: ‘Yokai’ by Shigeru Mizuki from Drawn+Quarterly
'Yokai', by Shigeru Mizuki brings readers into hidden world of Japan's wide range of monsters - some comical and some horrifying.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Awake in the Dark’ by Shira Nayman
Shira Nayman's stage adaptation of her own fiction powerfully evokes a war child's search for her roots – with a shocking twist.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Thistles,’ a Prickly Family Dilemma by Cyndy A. Marion
This pandemic-era family drama sustains a tricky balance of tragedy and comedy most of the way thanks to a star turn by Mel House.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): ‘Death Becomes Her’ Is Riotous Fun
This riotous musical scores laughs a minute, with lush music and superb performances by Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Agamemnon: The Circle of Blood’—War Stories Old and New
Rafika Chawishe's collage of theater, film, and performance art commingles ancient Greek history with the present day and reminds us how humanity never seems to learn from its past.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): ‘It’s a Wonderful World’ is Terrific
'It's a Wonderful World' chronicles jazz great Louis Armstrong's life and loves over six decades in a glorious celebration of his genius.
Read More »Art: ‘Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A triumphant new exhibition surveys decades of Black artists engaging with the art and iconography of ancient Egypt.
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