Performing Arts
Not just for the sake of art
Art is playing an increasing role in creating, maintaining and restoring the emotional health of everyone from artists to homeless…
AmArts: Everybody's doing it
For those who believe in art for art's sake does burgeoning interest in amateur and community arts mark a return…
To believe or not to believe
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors," philosophized Thomas Huxley. But the distinguished English biologist’s argument, however…
All the worlds a blog
In this increasingly wired world, where little is sacred and people literally vie for the opportunity to reveal their lives…
Chasing Pegasus (a play in ten chords)
They say it’s always darkest before the dawn. And then there’s that other saying “The best laid plans of mice…
The art of teasing
Once a mixture of comic plays and bawdy humour, burlesque reeled the crowds in by showcasing women in stages of…
Artistic identity in an age of terror
Post 9/11 do Arab-American artists have to pick a side or can they use their heritage to inform new bodies…
AIDS Awareness: A Dying Artform?
The start of the new millennium sees the AIDS pandemic enter its third decade. Tragically, the number of new infections…
The Art of Memory
It’s been five years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, where nearly 3,000…
Bring back the music ... without the hiss
Cutting edge audio technology allows old recordings by past masters to be stored for eternity and brought back to life…