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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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 »Theater Review: ‘Roosevelt: Charge the Bear’ by The Roustabouts
In this engaging one-man show, actor Phil Johnson takes viewers through President Theodore Roosevelt's uphill battles during the coal strike crisis of 1902.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Memory Monster’ by Yishai Sarid
The first English translation of a book by Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid – a tale of a modern-day Holocaust historian – appears at an opportune time.
Read More »Music Review: Cappella Romana – ‘The Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia’ (CD + Blu-ray)
This remarkable new recording from the choir Cappella Romana uses digital processing to recreate Byzantine chant as worshipers in Hagia Sophia would have heard it.
Read More »Concert Review: Mirror Visions Ensemble – ‘The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing’ (NYC, 17 Feb 2020)
Four singers and a pianist swung from romance to riotous humor to wartime pathos, delivering musical settings of letters from different eras with force and feeling.
Read More »Theatre Review (Washington, DC): ‘Silent Sky’ at Ford’s Theatre
This rich drama by Lauren Gunderson shines a light on the pioneering astronomical work of the women of the Harvard Observatory.
Read More »Visiting the Freud Museum in London
On your next London trip, go see the house where Sigmund Freud spent the last year of his life.
Read More »Visiting the Charles Dickens Museum in London
As you visit Dickens' home, you're more likely to find yourself in a festive mood rather than in a "Bah, humbug!" mindset.
Read More »75th Anniversary of D-Day – The Lost Must Never Be Forgotten
As world leaders gathered in England and France to solemnly mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944, it is necessary and compelling to remember those lost.
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