There is nothing more satisfying than when art bleeds with culinary brilliance. It is an indulgence for the senses that shouldn’t be skipped. In Gustave …more…
Arts America Blogs

Bad Work If You Can Stand It
Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick in NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (Photo: Joan Marcus)
In my last ArtsAmerica blog entry, I wrote about …more…

Onstage Atlanta Sows ‘Doubt: A Parable’
There’s no doubt about it: Onstage Atlanta, the area’s premier semi-professional theater company, chose an opportune moment to stage John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable. …more…

Bessie Smith Lives at St. Luke’s
The great blues singer Bessie Smith is getting a revival at St. Luke’s Theatre, an intimate Off-Broadway venue on West 46th Street, thanks to a …more…

Mandy Greer and Environmental Art at Seattle Center
Photo of Mater Matrix Mother and Medium multimedia performance by Rodrigo Valenzuela.
An intricate 250-foot fiber web of brilliant blue and white flows around the …more…

Community theater provides low-cost but high-impact performances
Although Detroit is known for drawing some high-end shows – especially some of the best of Broadway – there also are some amazing community theaters …more…

ArtWalk Simsbury! on May 19, 2012
This weekend the Simsbury ArtWalk will take place from 11am-5pm in the center of the town on Hopmeadow Street (Route 10). This will be the …more…

Old Globe Theatre set to launch ninth annual Summer Shakespeare Festival
“I stuck my neck out,” late Old Globe Theatre founding artistic director R. Craig Noel said in 2003, “and I’ve been terribly stubborn about it.” …more…

‘The Blessing of a Broken Heart’ to play at SD Jewish festival
Every May 8, Sherri Mandell and her family visit a desert cave in Tekoa, Israel, where they spend the night. In this case, “family” is …more…

‘Time Stands Still’ at GableStage
Deborah L. Sherman and Steve Garland ( Pic by George Schiavone)
The GableStage presents the Southeastern Premiere of the play Time Stands Still from May …more…

Carmina Burana at The Houston Symphony
The 2011-2012 Houston Symphony classical season is ending on a high note with conductor Hans Graf leading the orchestra in one the of the most …more…

LPO has second big weekend planned
Last weekend the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra carried off a busy schedule. This included a double bill with superb renditions of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 …more…

Last Chance! Take Your Dad “Golfing” this Weekend at Laguna Gloria
If you haven’t yet ventured over to Laguna Gloria during this breezy Spring in Austin to check out the Art on the Green installation, take …more…

Tango Conspiracy at PAX
Tango Conspiracy
PAX, The Performing Arts Exchange in Miami, is a tucked away world of cultural expression right in downtown. Underneath I-95, this is a …more…
MoCA: a place full of place
Last Saturday, I visited the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (familiarly known as Mass MoCA or just MoCA) in North Adams. It was my first …more…

LINES Ballet – Before the Blues: Prince Credell
Prince Credell in Alonzo King's Before the Blues ~ photo by Marty Sohl
In my usual weekly search for inspiration, I was watching various videos …more…

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Provides Soundtrack to New CMOA Exhibit
Music and art come together for the opening of the Carnegie Museum of Art’s exhibition Impressionism in a New Light: From Monet to Stieglitz. On …more…

Small Houses of Great Artists at the Dallas Arboretum
Seurat House
I know there’s been a bit of controversy surrounding the lovely Dallas Arboretum lately. As you may or may not know, there have …more…

SPARTACUS cast bulk up for Season 3 at intensive Boot Camp
It’s becoming an annual rite of passage for the cast and stunt performers of the STARZ original series Spartacus. One month before production, they undergo …more…

A Weekend in the Country: a Sondheim favorite @ Writers’ Theatre
It may not be the “country” but for city-dwelling Chicagoans, it’s close enough. Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe, just outside the city, concludes their twentieth season …more…

Wagner Marathon in Anchorage — But What About Local Opera?
It’s not often that Alaskans get to see Wagnerian opera, much less the full Ring cycle in one sweep, but this week and next, the Metropolitan Opera is beaming all four Wagner Ring operas to cinemas around the world, including to the Century 16 Cinema in Anchorage. Ring-nuts rejoice! ...more...

Bill Irwin Amazes San Francisco Audiences in Endgame
Bill Irwin stars in Endgame, photo by Mary Ellen Mark
There are Samuel Beckett fans out there who worship every word the brilliant playwright/author wrote, …more…

Environmental art has a story to tell
Shelly Leitheiser’s latest exhibit, “Kinetic Connections,” is currently showing at the WARM Gallery in the Minnesota Women’s Center. Aside from being powerful commentaries about the …more…


