Sunday, June 28

Let’s get together

The sheer mention of the high school homecoming parade usually either invokes euphoria or promotes apathy. But playwright Katherine Ruppe wants to rekindle an interest in the topic. Read more...


Modern musical reflective, true to life

As bizarre as it reads in print, in his new work “Caroline, or Change,” playwright Tony Kushner has written perhaps the first stream-of-consciousness musical. The difficult literary style associated with modernism, made famous by James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Read more...


Let’s get together

The enigmatic formula of the Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Marathon merges the efforts of a playwright and a film director into a collaboration that is beyond the reaches of one medium. Read more...


An intelligent “˜Education’

“Bad Education” Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Sony Pictures Classics At the risk of being criticized by film students everywhere, Pedro Almodóvar is the modern-day Federico Fellini. Read more...


Soundbites

A Perfect Circle “eMOTIVe” Virgin Records Cover songs often get a bad reputation for not being as good as the original, mostly because they’re usually the same exact song performed by a different musician. Read more...


World a less fun place without Ol’ Dirty Bastard

It’s a little early, and it probably won’t be recognized in most states, but Nov. 13 should be designated Ol’ Dirty Bastard Day. Since he passed away on Saturday, ODB fans across the country have been reminiscing not only about his contributions to the musical world, but also about how endearingly crazy the guy was (not in any clinical or legal sense of the word, of course). Read more...