Patriots Week: Return to the Roots of Democracy
Contrary to popular legend, George Washington COULD tell a lie. And the nation’s first president, it seems, was a first class tale-teller, according to...
A Fear-Free New Year
‘Nothing is so much to be feared as fear,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in his journal in 1851. With characteristic pithiness, the great American...
Irish Eyes Are Smiling at Christmas
Like the Chieftains before her, fiddle player, composer, and bandleader Eileen Ivers is expanding the parameters of what is commonly thought of as Irish...
Looking at 9/11 from the Stage
‘A play about blue states, red states and all the colors in between,” says the press statement for “Adopt a Sailor” by Charles Evered....
Seven Decades and Counting
Odetta, who will turn 76 this New Year’s Eve, sang at the March on Washington in 1963 with Dr. Martin Luther King. And when...
Broadway Reviews
There are a number of things to consider before taking children to the theater. But perhaps one of the most important besides the required...