Humorist David Sedaris's irreverent comedy provides a welcome respite for adults who need a break from all the holiday cheer.
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Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914’ is a Moving, Musical Memory Piece
This affecting musical tribute to the soldiers of World War I provides a welcome message of peace just in time for the holidays.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘No Man’s Land’ by Melissa Moschitto and The Anthropologists
Inspired by the bizarre true story of a Virginia farmer who claimed a patch of land in Africa in order to make his daughter a real princess, the show is a frustrating jumble, with highly entertaining and materially noteworthy elements undercut by sequences that go down the drain.
Read More »Dance/Theater Review: ‘The Mar Vista’ by Yehuda Hyman and Mystical Feet Company
This sweet story slides from religious tradition into the traditions that arise in an individual family – the legends, the habits, the clashes, and the spoken and too-often unspoken feelings.
Read More »New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show Bar Car Nights
The Holiday Train Show Bar Car Nights and the entire exhibition are sure to ignite your seasonal spirit and bring joy and vitality to help you usher in the New Year.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ at the Woodlawn Theatre
A bright production of the Webber and Rice musical closes out the Deco District theater's 2016 season.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Pigeon in The Taj Mahal’ by Laoisa Sexton
It is the unexpected meetings that hold the most promise to take us out of the killing routine of our lives.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Roads to Home’ by Horton Foote, Starring Hallie Foote
Beyond superficial appearances, whether in the city or the rural South, people are the same.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The City That Cried Wolf’ by Brooks Reeves
All is shadowed darkness in Rhyme Town. The wolves have become preeminent and terrorize the city.
Read More »New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show, a 25-Year Celebration of Awesome
This year the Applied Imagination team added the exhibition's first roller coaster, the Coney Island Cyclone. With the Cyclone are the Coney Island Wonder Wheel (complete with LED sign) and the Elephantine Colossus, a gigantic elephant-shaped hotel from the 1890s that burnt down in a fire.
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