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Marc Blitzstein’s fun, stirring and incredibly important The Cradle Will Rock will be revived this summer by Opera Saratoga *, one of three new productions in their summer festival. * Not Sarasota as I originally wrote, so maybe I’ll drive … Continue reading →

In 1967, Diana Sands was playing Shaw’s Cleopatra in Atlanta opposite British actor Ronald Bush. At one point in the action, she kissed him on the forehead. The Ku Klux Klan swooped down to picket. Things were getting rough. “I … Continue reading →

You’e got to see the Greenpeace video of pianist Ludovico Eunaidi playing amid our rapidly vanishing Arctic ice pack. Why  isn’t Hillary attacking Demented Donald’s denial of climate change? Why isn’t the DNC platform getting out in front on this … Continue reading →

And you know there’s only one thing that could possibly make me feel that way! It’s those stands of orange daylillies by the road–the ones I told you last year I was so pleased to see once more. That’s what … Continue reading →

For self-defeating, tone-deaf ineptitude few political organizations rival today’s Democratic National Committee. Just as could have been predicated, they’re bulldozing most positions espoused by Sanders out of the party platform. Their refusal to adopt even positions Clinton says she’s for … Continue reading →

There isn’t a single time I walk through Grand Central Station’s magnificent ex-waiting room that I don’t deplore the decision to basically kick the public out. It is now a space  people bustle through on their way in and out … Continue reading →

It was the Voting Rights Act that prevented the GOP from stealing the 2012 presidential election and so naturally, it had to go, and our profoundly anti-democracy right-wing Supreme Court majority gutted it soon after. Now, discriminatory voting restrictions will … Continue reading →

is doing exciting things at the Two River theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. Their production of I Remember Mama closes at the end of this week, was highly recommended to me by someone who made the trip.

    Gabriel Byrne and Jessica Lange in A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.   Frank Langella tap dances in a star turn The Father. Caught the Saturday night show of The Father — an international success built on the … Continue reading →

will be the subject of a MOMA tribute this summer! They’re screening all of her major films.