By Dennis Polkow The gargantuan music dramas of Richard Wagner are by and large a world inhabited by gods and heroes ruled by magic and fantasy. The one exception is "Die Meistersinger von N…
l-r Donald Rees, Nir Guzinski, Sean Curley (Photo credit: David Reudelhuber)Brave New Productions, all grown upYasmina Reza, the painting, the menby David ReudelhuberSitting at hi…
The National Endowment for the Arts is conducting discipline-specific webinars for Art Works grant guidelines in January and February 2013. These webinar workshops provide deeper insight int…
Real story of Columbine is told as survivors' views unfold onstage -- and in audience You could tell the people from the Columbine community by how they reacted to the many gunshots in the…
Chinese music, dance spectacle stirs political pot.
Just after Valentine's Day, an exhibition exploring the juncture where literature and fine art meet with the longings of the flesh " Lust Letters " opens Saturday, February 16 in Chinatown. …
The Drama Desk will present its annual spring panel discussion/luncheon March 22 at Sardi's. The 2013 event, "The Art of Storytelling," will explore the challenges actors face …
Larry Moss hates being called a "balloon artist." It qualifies the art. Picasso wasn't a paint painter. He was an artist who worked with paint. So why should Moss be a balloon artist?
Modern Love is an exhibition featuring works by master artists Carrie Graber and Snake Jagger that highlight Mid-Century Art and Architecture. Images by Gideon Fine Art Gallery in Palm Sprin…
About the author: It’s not easy to hold the attention and sympathy of an audience in a solo show, but Martin Moran has mastered this very difficult theatrical form. In his astonishing…
The arts community of Columbus, Ohio is celebrating acclaimed American expressionist painter Mark Rothko this month with both a museum exhibition and a semi-biographical play. First, the Col…
An ambitious mingling of the cerebral and the physically demanding is underway at the Denver Center's performance-in-the-round Space Theater.
In an unusual new exhibit, the Museum of Russian Art showcases 70 pieces of spiritual art by 47 artists who dared to defy their rulers.
The CLF Art Cafe, The Bussey Building, London: The comic potential of the enigmatic Iago is exploited to good effect here. Iago, who is excellently played by Jack Johns, stalks through the m…
In conjunction with and curated by Al Fingers and Shimmy Shimmy, SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS is proud to present Art in the Dancehall, an exhibition celebrating dancehall illustration and d…
"An Otherwise Hopeless Evening of Very Gay and Extremely Grim Short Plays by William Inge," a unique production that includes visual art and the performances of four obscure one-act plays b…
Generous Company in Baltimore, Maryland presents Gumbo, a six-night festival of new works from theater, visual arts, and music blurring the lines between art and neurobiology.…
Crispin Hellion Glover (films "Back to the Future," "Alice in Wonderland," "Hot Tub Time Machine, "River's Edge") performs his solo work, "Big Slide Show, Parts One and Two" on Friday …
I have written about Seth Godin on this blog before. He is someone who seems to me to be truly liberatory (a combination of liberating and celebratory). This week, he did a rare interview wi…
REVIEW: Gender-bending, nudity, voguing, a Prince song " all part of transgressive Walker show.
“Admire” show features paintings, drawings, photos and sculpture by 11 Twin Cities artists picked by Form + Content artists.
Two plays I just reviewed for Backstage, Mat Smart’s "The Steadfast," a play about American soldiers through the ages, and Judith Malina’s "Here We Are," a theater piece about…