Time and a change of perspective can allow you to appreciate things you once abhorred. That maxim can be true of many things. Music, art, food. People. It was true of Boys in the Band. When Mart Crowley’s 1968 bombshell of a play rolled out on celluloid in 1970, it rightfully caused the world to …
Some productions rejuvenate your appreciation for theater by stripping it down and letting you focus on its two essential parts, the story and the characters. Double Vision, a wild and smart musical now playing at the Edge on Broadway, is the kind of wacky joy ride that generate lots of grins, and an occasional groan, …
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Was eating out ever just utilitarian? Something you do to satisfy your hunger and nothing else? If those days ever existed, they’ve gone the way of the brick sized cell phone. Eating out is doing something adventurous, satisfying a curiosity, indulging a craving, commemorating something special or succumbing to a guilty pleasure (Crisp). We dine …
Sometimes dance is better understood when you try to see it through the eyes of someone who designs it. In an interview several years ago, Christopher Wheeldon Obe, the choreographer for Commedia, the first dance opening The Joffrey Ballet’s winter season at the Auditorium this past Wednesday, talked about the beauty of having you own …
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Freedom is one of non-representational art’s most captivating attributes. Free of geographical borders, free of national divides and often not dependent on the specifics of an individual’s origins, it doesn’t depict a place, a person or a thing. As expressions generated purely of the mind, it can represent an idea or a memory. It can …
Culturally, the distance between 1951 and 2020 is vast. It’s the distance between a new born entering a world transformed from what it was nearly seventy years ago and her grandparents or great-grandparents who’ve watched a Cold War dissolve and the overwhelming digitization of the planet. A span of time that could easily induce nostalgia. …
Sometimes when the lights go down and a theater stage stirs to life, you’re carried away and dropped into lives and experiences that uniquely sharpen your understanding of what it takes to either survive or thrive. The low boiling excitement filling the air opening night for Victory Garden’s How to Defend Yourself let you know …
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