Tableaux, comedic skits, and shout-outs coalesce into a funny and insightful all-female clown show at La Mama.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Milk Like Sugar’ by Kirsten Greenidge at Playwrights Horizons
Desperate for positive reinforcement, Annie doesn't even know what to do with herself when she gets some.
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What is it really like in occupied Zuccotti Park, ground zero for protest?
Read More »Concert Review: Clarion Music Society, New York City, 9/22/2011
Early music fans are used to hearing sacred texts set to music, and the religion is, of course, Christianity. Except when it isn't.
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Though legally abolished, slavery remains an unvanquished worldwide phenomenon.
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Under the cloud of smoke, we waited out the longest day of my life.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Pillow Book’ by Anna Moench
This powerful new work, inspired by the thousand-year-old Japanese literary classic, is well worth seeing – and getting a bit perplexed about.
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The women get the scariest moments, but this superior production of Arthur Miller's timeless play about the Salem witch trials is as much about the men.
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Cities like New York are taking some steps to prepare, but the political will can be shaky.
Read More »Music Review: Yelena Grinberg and Serafim Smigelskiy at the Players Club (New York), 7/22/2011
I was surprised to learn that these two musicians don't play together regularly; their four hands could have belonged to one person.
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