Kin: The Relationships of Love
Recently, plays and performances have relied highly on their flashy costumes, sets, and scale to draw in audiences. From…
American Idiot
You’re sitting in your seat, desperately waiting for the curtain to rise. People around you are already singing familiar…
The Misanthrope
Molière, the 17th century playwright who popularized the Don Juan legend, was nothing less than a master of comedy…
Two Wrongs Make a Right
The mythical, love-at-first-glance meeting between couples is the cornerstone of all romantic comedies. But for young Columbia professor Anna…
Hungarian Echoes (or is that someone shouting?)
New Yorkers have a knack for infusing everything with an overdose of cynicism. We convolute Valentine’s Day into a…
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
With the longest preview period and most expensive tickets for a Broadway production in history, the bar is set…
Mooz-Lum
A few weeks ago, my best friend and I stopped by the AMC theatre to check out the new…
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
The New York Neo-Futurist’s Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is sixty minutes of wonderful. A jumble…
Ecstatic Music Festival: Timothy Andres & Gabriel Kahane
Classical music often suffers from an inherent inaccessibility—it is akin to an aristocrat, ever-clad in black tie attire, reeking…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
I took a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I wasn’t expecting for the journey from Brooklyn to…
Can’t Get a Word in….
BOOM! The explosion plunges you into the dark abyss as the lights are swallowed up, and you hear the…
The Moth’s StorySLAM
Smart phones, convertibles, skyscrapers, computers—the present day is a fast-paced, impersonal sea of chrome and automation. But amid the…
The Global Africa Project
Feel the rhythm of the drums, the movement of the people and the movement of your hand swing in…
An Evening with a God of the Bass Guitar
I’ve been to my share of rock concerts. I’ve pushed my way through crowds of hardcore fans, screamed song…