Music To Say Goodbye To 2016 To WELL, one of the worst years in recorded history is over. Every morning, as my consciousness returns, I am reminded that Leonard Cohen, Bowie, George Martin, and my dad are dead and that a … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-12-31
12 Plays of Xmas: 5 Alkestis by Euripides/Anne Carson For most of these 12 Plays of Xmas, I can imagine how they might be staged, what tone the cast and production team might hope to achieve. But Alkestis… Alkestis is just weird. Euripides’ … read more
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-12-31
The Year in CultureGrrl, 2016 Edition In my 2015 yearly round-up post, I crowed about a high point of my CultureGrrl career—the munificent Art Writers Grant awarded to my blog by Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation. In keeping with the general … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-12-30
12 Plays of Xmas: 4 The Roaring Girl by Middleton & Dekker It’s pantomime season, which is as good a time as any to pay tribute to the fine British traditions of smutty humour, sexual confusion, homosexual panic and coming over a bit funny when you … read more
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-12-30