'PS Burn This Letter Please' by Craig Olsen is a beautiful homage to the brave souls living in a dangerous time when being a drag queen often meant prison.
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Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares To U” – Its Brilliance is Her Legacy
Sinéad O'Connor's passing this week at age 56 is a shocker. It's the kind of slap in the face that we get when someone we have admired dies unexpectedly.
Read More »Percy Hynes White and the Danger of Cancel Culture
Percy Hynes White of Netflix's 'Wednesday' denies allegations of sex crimes, but Cancel Culture still hounds him. Crisis experts advise.
Read More »‘The Doctor,’ an Absorbing and Profound Theatrical Experience, Starring Juliet Stevenson
'The Doctor,' with text and direction by Robert Icke stars the amazing Juliet Stevenson in a bravura performance.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘In Corpo,’ A New Musical by Ben Beckley and Nate Weida
Inspired by Kafka and Melville, the smart, soulful, and original 'In Corpo' is the kind of musical that reassures us there's plenty of creative life left in musical theater.
Read More »Titan Submersible Loss – A Tragedy for Our Times
The media frenzy over the story of a lost tourist submarine and the death of its passengers has framed the Titan submersible as a tragedy for our times.
Read More »Concert Event Review (Brooklyn): ‘Secret Byrd’ – Music of William Byrd at Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs
A unique performance event that places us at a clandestine Catholic Mass in Elizabethan times, with music by William Byrd.
Read More »Opera Review: ‘American One Acts’ – ‘Highway 1, USA’ by William Grant Still, ‘Down in the Valley’ by Kurt Weill
One by an African American composer, the other by a Jewish immigrant, these two one-act operas can both be seen as quintessentially American.
Read More »Opera Review: Puccini’s ‘Il Tabarro’ from On Site Opera at South Street Seaport, NYC
The adventurous opera company sets Puccini's tale of a barge outdoors at the edge of Manhattan where seagoing commerce once thrived.
Read More »Theater Interview: Kadahj Bennett on Understudying in ‘The Lehman Trilogy’
"This show already premiered on Broadway, but for Boston to have the first American version of the piece is astounding and beautiful. I'm excited to be a part of this process."
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