By far the most striking set of the evening belonged to Chicago singer-songwriter Susan Werner, who achieved a breakthrough performance on this night. Though Werner has been playing the city…
Edward Albee joined a who's who roster of artists for this weekend's YoungArts program, which offered mentoring sessions to creatively inclined students from around the country.
Soon after the unthinkable we call 9/11, those of us who think about such things started thinking about the impact of such catastrophe on our culture. What kind of art would rise from the sh…
Sheila Callaghan's lat est play, "Roadkill Confidential," starts off with a strong David Lynch vibe. An FBI man in an eye patch (Danny Mastrogiorgio) spouts terse, cryptic lines. Blondie pl…
I'm sure you've heard the adage, “you must suffer for your art.” I've always considered myself an optimist with a pretty good life, albeit a bit of a worrier. So the worrisome vo…
Banksy may be today's street art star, but if you want to see where it all began, visit the Museum of the City of New York's "City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection." T…
Check out this exquisitely personal and tremendously important post entitled Are We Listening? from Sarah Taylor Ellis at her Compositions on Theater blog. As always Sarah is able to blen…
When the opportunity to do a Shakespearean classic came about, actor Avery Brooks and director Harold Scott thought of Shakespeare's "King Lear," but with a difference.
