Front page shocker in today's New York Times : William Shakespeare was a homosexual. Grizzled former war correspondent John F. Burns has unearthed the bombshell in the form of a very gay-looking portrait. The previously unkown painting comes from the private collection of "an aristocratic Anglo-Iris...

BLOGGERS RULE at the Vancouver Opera... Live Blogging for Rigoletto! Opera is one of the most intercultural art forms.  It forces its audience to listen to foreign languages, as it tells stories from different cultures.  Okay, it also presents a lot of stereotypes and racial chariactures t...

As someone who runs a small not-for-profit theatre, I’m keenly paying attention to how the debate over the Obama administration’s proposed limits on charitable deductions will play out. Many think it will have a negative impact on the fundraising bottom line. Some think it won’t hit so hard. I...

By: Menachem Wecker Date: Wednesday, March 04 2009 My Name Is Asher LevDirected by Asher PosnerAdapted from Chaim Potok's novelArtistic consultant, Adina PotokUntil March 15Arden Theatre Company,40 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphiawww.ardentheatre.org A Chassidic prodigy alienates his community by paintin...

Mudflats has details: This may be bigger than hula-hoops, cabbage patch dolls or Pokemon cards! The latest Republican fad seems to be apologizing to Rush Limbaugh. We all know that sometimes it’s hard not to speak your mind, especially when inspired to do so by the bloviations of America’s favor...

Yesterday, Apple introduced new hardware across its desktop offerings, and with one exception, the changes were pretty much hailed and welcomed by all. That one exception received, and continues to receive, fairly harsh criticism from all sides, including from our very own Tom Reestman, who argued t...

This new play "English people are very nice" by Richard Bean at the national theatre is causing a stir for all the wrong reasons. I actually quite liked the sound of it and had intended it to be a valentines present for Irfana but we saw a film instead. It is set in Bethn...

Dick Polman takes a look at current Republican strategy. He sums it us thus: There are surely tens of millions of voters whom the Republicans have yet to alienate, but, as evidenced this week, the project appears to be all systems go. CPAC will hear tomorrow from its closing speaker, Rush Limbaugh. ...

Having written already about Nikita Mikhalkov's film which gave the basis for this stage version at the National Theatre by Peter Flannery, I'm going to try to concentrate on the play without making too many comparisons.  But that may be tricky.  I was intereste...

We went to see a play at the Odeon Theatre Bucharest. It’s been about three years since we last went. Because when we last went, it was so awful that we swore to never go again. Time and circumstance conspired against us, however. So we wound up jammed in a loggia without hope or expectation. ...