The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze
If you blur your eyes, you see a dark abyss, with hundreds of what looks like orange Christmas lights….
A Beast at Avery Fisher Hall
Seeing the New York Philharmonic perform a Brahms Violin Concerto and Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande in the same night…
The American Folk Art Museum
When you walk in, everything seems quite modern, and it is — until you see the art. But it…
The River Crosses Rivers Festival
The only time I’ve seen banana beer, bollywood theme songs, punk rock, and angels in the same place was…
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…
Pop-Up Party Under The Highline with Digital Daycamp
On a breezy Tuesday afternoon, many Manhattanites were sitting on the newly opened Highline and enjoying the gardens overlooking…
My Monstrosity at the Connelly Theater
Lucy Thurber‘s play Monstrosity, featuring “singing teenage fascists, magic, war, and love”, is one of the most ambitious theater…
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…
