This isn't the first show I've seen featuring deaf actors. But it's the first on a Broadway scale, and the first musical. It is, to switch metaphorical senses, eye-opening.
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Theater/Dance Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Cinderella,’ a Baroque Burlesque Ballet by Company XIV
The latest dance-theater extravaganza from Austin McCormick and his scarily talented troupe transports us into a magical world of tongue-in-cheek glitz and deeply felt emotion rolled densely into a concoction of wonders.
Read More »Music Review: Jake Shimabukuro – The ‘Travels’ of a Ukulele Virtuoso
Shimabukuro's playing has always been a pleasure on pretty much any material he undertakes to put across, originals and covers alike.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: Disrupting the Climate Change “Brand”
Some scientists have been pushing to replace the phrase "climate change" with a more effective term.
Read More »Music Review: Des Ark – ‘Everything Dies’
Interesting melodies with counterpoint from smoky background vocals coalesce with beautifully played and recorded instruments to build a blurry late-night Paris or Lower East Side mood – with an undercurrent of anger.
Read More »CD Giveaway: Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott – ‘Songs from the Arc of Life’ with Booklet Signed by Yo-Yo Ma
Enter to win a signed copy of the new collaborate album from cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his longtime friend, pianist Kathryn Stott.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll, 150th Anniversary Edition Illustrated by Salvador Dalí
It's a great pleasure to rediscover Lewis Carroll's classic in this modestly priced new Princeton University Press edition, with marvelous illustrations created by Salvador Dalí for a long out-of-print 1969 printing.
Read More »Music Reviews: Indie Roundup – Wide-Ranging Americana from Holly Golightly, Stephen Young & the Union, Andy Hackbarth
These three new albums all fit loosely into the Americana category but are all very, very different. Two are from artists who aren't even (originally) from America.
Read More »Language Matters in Life and Business: Impulse Control When You Shop
Don't let marketing buzzwords and scarcity messaging urge you into impulse purchases this holiday season.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Radio Mystery 1949’ by Dennis Richard
The concept of an old-time live radio broadcast turning into a kind of reality show might ring bells for today's audience if it were handled cleverly, but 'Radio Mystery 1949' drops the ball.
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