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Short Takes
Early August is when SceneShop comes out of mothballs and puts on its annual production of short plays. This year’s collection takes work as...
Night & Day
WED ▪ 30
Alan Ayckbourn’s farce A Small Family Business was written in 1987, and there’s some disagreement over whether its satire of Margaret Thatcher’s...
Beautiful Creatures
We’ve stated before in these pages that we don’t believe that Hayao Miyazaki is actually retired. Nevertheless, it’s never a bad time to revisit...
Night & Day
WED ▪ 23
If you were disappointed with last spring’s Muppets sequel, you can bring back the good memories with 2011’s The Muppets when it...
Bright Eyed Joy
One of America’s best composers for the stage, Ricky Ian Gordon is a musician who has followed Leonard Bernstein’s lead in blurring the distinctions...
Night & Day
WED ▪ 16
The Fort Worth Cats have now put some distance between themselves and the bottom two teams in the United Baseball League, but...
Girl on a Bike
When Wadjda hit American theaters last year, everyone said, “Oh! Look at that!” That’s because it wasn’t just a film from Saudi Arabia, a...
Night & Day
WED ▪ 9
Russian conductors don’t often try their hand at Italian opera, but the estimable Semyon Bychkov headed up the Met’s production of Verdi’s...
The Rhinoplaster’s Tale
A man is asked by his daughter why he’s an unlicensed plastic surgeon, so he spins a fantastic fable about how his profession started...
Night & Day
WED ▪ 2
The recent mild controversy over the newly crowned Miss USA’s body type has made beauty pageants sort of relevant again, so now...