The ascendance of podcasts has resuscitated the mostly-dead art once called the radio drama. This adaptation of Oscar Wilde's short story is one of the best new examples I've heard.
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2021 SXSW Film Festival Review ‘Executive Order’
This dynamic, often poetic dystopian thriller draws one in with its immediacy. Shot on location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it's set in the distant future, but its contemporary issues prove stunning.
Read More »Theater Interview: Emma McDonald from ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
Actress Emma McDonald explains this modern take on Oscar Wilde's classic and the challenges of making a digital production.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Maestro David Stern on Opera Fuoco’s ‘Figaro in the City’ and Palm Beach Opera’s Live-Audience Return
The conductor spoke with us about reimagining opera for a young video-obsessed generation, and about the challenges and rewards of staging live opera with an audience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More »Climate Change’s Growing Toll on Culture and the Arts
From historic buildings to electric guitars, and from fine wines to ancient statues, irreplaceable pieces of culture and the arts around the world are falling victim to our runaway use of fossil fuels.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Dog Act’ by Liz Duffy Adams, from The Seeing Place Theater (Live Stream)
The visceral power of this post-apocalyptic, quasi-Shakespearean dark comedy doesn't come through in this virtual production.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse’ by Anahid Nersessian
'Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse' by Anahid Nersessian is a deep and accessible delve into the poetry of one of the great Romantic poets.
Read More »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 »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.
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