Just around the corner from where it first played, Sholem Asch's 'God of Vengeance,' challenging and controversial in so many ways since its debut in 1907, has opened at La Mama in its original Yiddish (with English supertitles). Upon its Broadway run in English in 1923, the play's cast and producers were arrested on obscenity charges. With its frank depiction of lesbianism and prostitution, it's no wonder.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Christmas Carol’ from Blessed Unrest
This adaptation of Dickens's classic tale is a mélange of social commentary, supernatural visitations, flashbacks, comic business, metatheatrical kidding around, and sentiment, all in the service of a classic story we seem to need to keep retelling.
Read More »New York Botanical Garden Poet Laureate Billy Collins and Poet Eamon Grennan Read and Chat Poetry
For twenty-five years the Poetry Society of America has been an active presence and voice in New York City. They have sponsored “Poetry in Motion” posting poems and having poets read their poems on NYC subways. They have also worked in concert with the New York Botanical Garden creating placards …
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Life is for Living: Conversations With Coward’ Starring Simon Green
Sir Noël Peirce Coward is a cultural icon you may be surprised to know inspired Elton John, Sting and Paul McCartney to sing some of his songs.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Disgraced’ by Ayad Akhtar
It is no wonder that Akhtar's play won the 2013 Pulitzer for Drama as the writing delves deeply into racial and religious issues of being a non-White Muslim in America.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘The Paisley Sisters’ Christmas Special’ at the Roxie Theatre
This amusing spoof of those ubiquitous 1960s Christmas TV musical specials makes for a fun holiday outing.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley’ Starring Jake Broder
Are you down with being hip or are you uptight as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs?
Read More »Theater Review (Philadelphia): ‘An Iliad’ by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare
The poet of Homer's 'Iliad' has become immortal, doomed forever to retell the story of the Trojan War, just as humanity is doomed to re-enact it. Telling a story set thousands of years ago, 'An Iliad' is a haunting play for the modern age about human nature, just like the epic it’s based on.
Read More »Comedy Review: Mitch Hedberg – ‘The Complete Vinyl Collection’ from Comedy Central
Mitch Hedberg’s humor is so smart and so funny that it doesn’t allow me to listen and at the same time get on with getting anything else accomplished – like work. When I’m listening to Mitch Hedberg that’s pretty much all I’m doing.
Read More »Adobe MAX: Cultivating the Creative Spark
Is being creative just like flipping on a light switch, or does it take something more? Photographer/trainers Chris Orwig and Julieanne Kost think it takes a lot more, and provided a plan during their class “Cultivating the Creative Spark” at this year’s Adobe MAX conference.
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