Saturday, July 11

Choreographer grabs fame and success early in life

When most people his age were rockin’ to “Fraggle Rock” during their diaper years, Wade Robson had already begun working toward his future dance career. As soon as the dancer/choreographer discovered how to use his legs, his career had begun. Read more...


Matranga stays humble with audience interaction

Jonah’s Onelinedrawing is not the typical gathering of musicians that you’d expect to see on stage. The group regularly includes singer and guitarist Jonah Matranga and an R2D2 tape recorder that plays drumbeats, not to mention the frequent unplanned friends that jump up to join him. Read more...


The bullet train to Broadway

The Twentieth Century Limited, one of the fastest trains of the 1930s, could make the journey direct from Chicago to New York in 16 hours. Unfortunately for passenger Oscar Jaffey, a once fantastic theater director, this means that he has only 16 hours left to regain his reign over Broadway in the Reprise! Read more...


Scorsese talks about

In “Gangs of New York,” Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis) gives a monologue about how the spectacle of violence maintains the social order, an idea which informs much of Scorsese’s film work. Read more...




Mia Doi Todd presents novel Cali sound

It is hard to imagine that other than the sunny melodies and psychadelics that embody the standard “California sound” there is a lesser-known style of music that just as deservedly calls the Golden State its home. Read more...