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In the summer of 1968, Diana Sands was singing and dancing and politicizing and loving. As we recount: “Sexual jealousy was as good a gauge of Diana’s affections as much as any lover’s. During the Hallelujah, Baby! tour, she demonstrated … Continue reading →

The insanely specious and myopic reliance on GDP as an unqestioned metric of well being is skewered by David Korten at Yes! Magazine “as a measure of economic activity, GDP is what it says it is: a gross number. It doesn’t … Continue reading →

the way a performer can change his or her appearance as much via thought as make-up. When Tallulah at thirty-six played Elizabeth in Maugham’s The Circle, a woman in her early twenties, she was able, friend and stage manager Stephan … Continue reading →

Lisa and I had one epigraph for People’s Artist that we thought was good. But there was a quote from The Brothers Karamazov that was in the back of my mind. Finally I suggested we exchange it.  Lisa read it … Continue reading →

I mean, this 1967 show is worth it just for the song “Talking to Yourself.” But it has so much more. It’s high-concept and just plain historic. Diana Sands took it on tour in 1968-69 and Steve and I have … Continue reading →

Whoever’s writing Minority Leader Pelosi’s stuff right now is good!

The Pentagon wants to be able to drop nukes in response to non-nuke attacks. Makes sense, right? Trump, of course is all in. He’s not only determined to overturn democracy here, but incinerate the world as well. On Democracy Now! … Continue reading →

purchase Valentin Baranovsky’s new Divertissement, and you’ll really want to after seeing it previewed in the just-published Winter 2017-18 Ballet Review.

I asked Laura Jacobs if she still remembered those Leaves Are Fadings she’d seen in Boston. She saw Kirkland dance it twice in that run–“I was speechless,” she said. However, she wrote about it for the Boston Phoenix so eloquently that … Continue reading →

Ryan Grimm at the Intercept talks about how they plan to get away with it.