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Volume 1 of New York City Ballet in Montreal has arrived at VAI’s Pleasantville headquarters.  So order from them directly, or order from Amazon and you’ll get delivery a little later this month, by which time Vol. 2 will also … Continue reading →

Tom Magstad at Nation of Change lays out exactly what’s at stake, and why & how our Supreme Court must be reformed.

Something very ugly going on: the GOP’s war on working people in this country is now–with a vengeance–seeking to pit the commonweal against anybody with an interest in culture.  As Eric Alterman reports in The Nation, Representative Trey Gowdy defamed … Continue reading →

Not that it wasn’t a done one already–the Chief Justice and his extremist, ethically-challenged court hand democracy over to the  plutocrats.

It’s been around since Sheridan was a current hot playwright:  The Grand Theater in Lancaster, Great Britain. And speaking of Sheridan, turns out that The Rivals is being revived in April by Manhattan’s Pearl Theatre.

There’s not much about political strategy and platform that I’d agree with David Plouffe about, but he’s right: Obamacare is not the problem. The problem is the Democrats perennial cowardice, their 24/7 capitulation reflex.  Yes, it’s nice that Harry Reid … Continue reading →

In The New York Times, Steven Yaccino and Lizette Alvarez spotlight the GOP’s war on voting rights. A thought: after Roberts gutted the Voting Rights Act last year isn’t t time to declare our current Supreme Court rogue and void?

Villages West and East used to be places of political engagement. People discussed ideas, current events, politics at the micro and macro levels.  Today when I sit in a West Village coffee shop, what I overwhelmingly hear people talking about … Continue reading →

I goofed when I said that Taylor’s Private Domain was done for this year’s NY season–in fact, it’s on the program this evening at the closing performance.  Starts at 6:00 p.m. Maybe I’ll go again too. But wait–you probably knew … Continue reading →

This weekend, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, One of Us: The Chapel enacts short plays by new young playwrights.