I’m a big fan of Tom Jacobson’s playwriting because he always seems to find a way to illuminate current agonies with past events in a reassuring way, letting audiences know […]
If Boston Huntington’s opening of The Light in the Piazza is predictive, this latest incarnation of the almost-classic American musical sung and spoken largely in Italian is a hit! The audience, noticeably […]
Tennessee Williams just couldn’t leave Blanche alone! In his 1968 rendering In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Miriam (Susan Priver), the unhappy wife of an alcoholic painter, dawdles her life away […]
The life of Federico Garcia Lorca, poet, playwright, and martyr could easily be the subject of a conventional biographical opera. But, with AINADAMAR, composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry […]
The names James Baldwin, Miles Davis, and Maya Angelou loom large in our cultural memory, because they were among the vanguard of Black artists who began to thrive in the […]
In 2001, Reese Witherspoon created an iconic character in the feel-good movie Legally Blonde. She was feisty, funny, and inspirational to many tweens and teens, and she didn’t disappoint adults […]
