Why Make Art In Times Of Disaster? The Point?
Michael Chabon: "Maybe the world in its violent turning is too strong for art. Maybe art is a kind of winning streak, a hot hand at the table, articulating a vision of truth and possibility …
Michael Chabon: "Maybe the world in its violent turning is too strong for art. Maybe art is a kind of winning streak, a hot hand at the table, articulating a vision of truth and possibility …
A new documentary recalls when part of the Polcevera Bridge collapsed last year
Words from George Orwell to live by:Â "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." The post Book Review: "The Ministry of Truth" " Writing a Blueprint for Disaster …
"For one thing, Gilot ended up happily married to Jonas Salk, who was doubtless secure enough in his own accomplishments to like her for reasons that had nothing to do with Picasso. And she …
VIDEO: Talkback with writer and co-creater of "Disaster!," Seth Rudetsky at Cockpit-in-Court in Baltimore. Video filmed and edited by Ron Israel.
"Disaster, the Musical!" is anything but in its current incarnation at Cockpit-In-Court. Whatever the opposite of disaster is by definition, this is it. Cockpit has kicked off their 2019…
UMG's accounting of its losses, detailed in a March 2009 document marked "CONFIDENTIAL," put the number of "assets destroyed" at 118,230. Randy Aronson considers that estimate low: The real …
Earthquakes, tidal waves, and infernos take center stage in Disaster!, Broadway's side-splitting homage to classic disaster films. Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, in residence at CCBC Essex…
It commits the great satirical sin of punching down. Remember High School Musical? Cool, cool, here's what would happen if someone fused the squickiest parts of …
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood's devastated world is nightmarishly familiar. It's comforting to regard the premise of Lucy Kirkwood's eco-thriller with a smug sense of…
Matt DiCarlo on his journey with The Play That Goes Wrong---Matt DiCarlo has spent the last two years making sure The Play That Goes Wrong goes right -- or, more accurately, wrong, first as …
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The British drama gets a vivid area premiere at Studio Theatre.
If we say his name three times, will he go away? I'm not talking about the title character of "Beetlejuice," which opened Thursday night, but Eddie Perfect. Fresh off his heinous music for "…
★★★★ Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White make art from horror, with help from Taylor Mac The post Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus: Cleaning Up and Movin…
"The planned 2016 production Nerds has become one of the biggest debacles in New York theater history, spawning a $6 million lawsuit and leaving at least one castmember feeling 'stranded' by…
New Colony's production dances around juicy subjects without fully committing to any of them. Three Disney World cast members find themselves trapped in the smol…
Today, the Hispanic FederationHFand the Flamboyan Arts Fund announced a 2 million commitment from global media leader and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey to aid in the revitalization ofPuertoRi…
On this day in 2017, the hilarious hit The Play That Goes Wrong opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.
The jukebox musical spoof of '70s disaster movies starring Adam Pascal, Faith Prince, Kerry Butler and more opened March 8, 2016.
Troy Patterson: "Its first act is weird and perfect; the second indicates the limits of this salvage operation. In The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, the editors ask, in a headnote, 'Ho…
Rudetsky and Plotnick's book winks at many of these Big-Screen exploits, but never out-and-out 'steals' from any of them, resulting in an entirely"and an enthrallingly--new work that has the…
Ejiofor, known in the U.S. best for his starring role in 12 Years a Slave, has now directed (and is starring in) a new film for Netflix, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. He wanted to be caref…
"In a storytelling culture obsessed with bigger stories and higher stakes, climate change should be irresistible. And yet when we try to tell the story " whether it's motivated by politics o…
The mostly-pre-recorded broadcast was the least viewed of all recent live musicals.