Category: AJBlogs

Aside from the charming town of Ystad itself, what’s up with the music? – Doug Ramsey

That is, Boris Johnson – now the Prime Minister of the UK. – Jan Herman

The resistance got its way: Warren Kanders, whose weapons-related business activities were attacked by protesters, has resigned from the Whitney Museum’s board. Therein lies a big problem, not just for the Whitney, but for the museum field as a whole. – Lee Rosenbaum

Yoko Miwa Trio, Keep Talkin’ (Ocean Blue Tear Music)
Greg Reitan, West 60th (Sunnyside)
– Doug Ramsey

Here’s a list of problems that sounds way too familiar to me in my work attempting to get arts organizations to understand the long road that needs to be walked to build relationships. – Doug Borwick

I love food, but I love cooking even more. So it was remarkably upsetting to see food repeatedly announced yet never enjoyed in Jack Thorne’s new play the end of history… at the Royal Court. Each of the three acts takes place at a meal that is destined to remain uneaten. – David Jays

I’m a longtime Rossini skeptic, but his rock-star status during his lifetime couldn’t have been a fluke. Could the key to making his operas (beyond the two or three popular comedies) appealing lie in historical performance practice, as happened with Handel? In this case, the answer is yes. – David Patrick Stearns

Williams’s stage direction describes it as a canvas hammock, but in Rae Smith’s design it is all rope – knotted, unstable, full of holes, an anchorite’s flail, a nest and a cage. Williams’s characters know how all of those things feel. – David Jays

A lone loan of Jerome for Leonardo’s 500th anniversary. – Lee Rosenbaum

“Morris plays delicious games with Satie’s variegated material.” – Deborah Jowitt