Listening to Benjamin Scheuer strum his acoustic guitar and recount his incredibly stirring life during his one-man show, The Lion, I could think of one word and one word only. Beautiful. The next day when co-workers asked me how my evening play had been, again, that’s all I could stammer. To use anything more bombastic […]
Archives for March 7, 2016
They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! from Ambassador Theater (review)
The mark of master storytellers is that they can make a given narrative hold resonance and power beyond the narrow context of the original time and place. By this standard, much art will ultimately fall short, stripped of its context and relevance as time marches on. The work that endures captures truth, even when in a different […]
Laurie Anderson performs Letters to Jack at The Kennedy Center (review)
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a more than fitting venue for Letters to Jack, the latest chapter in renowned performance artist, filmmaker, and composer Laurie Anderson’s ongoing Language of the Future series. Anderson’s series is a non-linear, sometimes surrealist meditation on the American story, told through an immersive collage of music and […]