The CES tradition, Last Gadget Standing, continued in the 2021 virtual CES.
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Review: Boundary-Stretching Opera and Song Cycles at Prototype Festival
Three productions stretched the boundaries of the opera and the song cycle at this year's Prototype Festival.
Read More »CES 2021: Online Technology Show Done Right
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), like so many other film, trade, and technology events this past year, went digital. CES, however, was different. I’d begun to feel some burnout after so many ZOOM or other technology based online experiences. As I should have expected, the CES sponsor, the Consumer Technology …
Read More »Coronavirus – Celebrating a New Year’s Eve Unlike Any Other
It was once again New Year’s Eve, but the 2020 version just didn’t feel right to me.
Read More »Theatre Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ by the Guildford Shakespeare Company and Jermyn Street Theatre
The Guildford Shakespeare Company and Jermyn Street Theatre's production of the beloved Dickens tale is as wonderfully interactive as it is funny and heartwarming.
Read More »Theater Review: Molière in the Park Presents ‘pen/man/ship’ by Christina Anderson
This inventive online production of the company's first contemporary American play takes place in 1896 on a ship bound for Liberia on a mysterious mission.
Read More »Profile: Ray Buffer, a Working L.A. Actor in the Time of COVID
The singer and actor, based in Southern California, talks about keeping his dream alive during these troubled times.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘No Way Back’ by the Roustabouts
Jessica John gives a compelling and moving performance in this play about a family's escape from Iran in 1981.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Popol Vuh: A Retelling’ by Ilan Stavans, Illustrations by Gabriela Larios
A gorgeously illustrated new English-language retelling of the Mayan creation myth
Read More »Theatre Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ Table Reading, a Livestream by Lockdown Theatre
'The Real Inspector Hound' was Lockdown Theatre's third Zoom live table reading, bringing the fundraising grand total to over £100,000.
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