The Journal of Art and Reviews (JAR) is a blog which features creative content by young people participating in ArtsConnection Teen Programs. With content for teens by teens, we hope to create an online space that inspires, empowers, and enlightens youth by sharing information, highlighting artists, and creating an online community in the realm of arts and culture.

Calamity and Hilarity

Gotham City Improv‘s Off the Top of Our Heads show delivers spontaneity that would be calamitous in life. Here…

Violence in the Park

Walking into the Shakespeare in the Park performance at the Delacorte Theatre, the vampire-esque music in the background let…

Rags to Ragtime

Disguised as a two-for-one musical biography, Tin Pan Alley Rag deepens as it lengthens. The show revolves around a…

MARS: Population One

How would you spend your last twenty minutes trapped in a small spaceship alone on Mars?  Would you go…

Tin Pan Alley Rag

The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzberg, is based on a true story about two well known…

I Write the Songs

While many artists have believed music and art to have a potent connection, it has hardly been manifested so…

The High Line

As you walk up the steel stairs, looking up at the black metal structures beside you, you are unprepared…

When Scott Met Berlin

Picture two renowned men ranting on all night, attempting to oust one another, while drowning out the neighboring dissonance…

One Heck of a Show

I recently saw a performance of The Tin Pan Alley Rag at the Laura Pels Theatre.  I would definitely…

The Toxic Avenger

A boy knows a girl that he has been in love with for a long time and wants his…