Performing Arts
NEA – Redux or Renew?
President Bush wants Dana Gioia at the helm of the NEA for another term. Will this be good for America’s…
Access All Arias
Making the opera relevant to a larger audience, a new audience, is a practice happening around the states. Far from…
CBGB’s is now a memory
The Bowery block that was its home is now grayer, bleaker, and a lot quieter. And as it regularly does,…
Still SING-ing
With its 60th anniversary just around the bend, the high school musical theatre competition SING! can look back on an…
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…