Marc Blitzstein News Today

IN SERIES OPERAs 2024-25 season, titled Illicit Opera, will feature four productions exploring themes of forbidden love, power, and societal norms.

We in the audience at Carnegie Hall expected a straightforward retrospective of the great leading lady’s life and work, and what we got was both that and…

The three-time Tony winner dazzled the sold-out crowd with her newest concert evening, A Life in Notes.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A new play by John Strysik, now receiving its world premiere production, reveals on a live stage the intense competition between two business models, two intensely proud and brilliant inventors, and implicitly, two economic approaches toward lighting and powering society.

The profanity-laden new film Wicked Little Letters just about tops the list of any films I can recall for the most swear words per minute. Child advisory recommended! Yet for those who enjoy a rollicking feminist mystery-political-comedy that is in fact based on a true story, this may be your ticket...

Join Dr. Maria Cristina Fava, who will present her new book, "Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City." Register now.

Or else? Yes, or else! Or else—tomorrow or the day after—we’ll have to cut back staff, publish fewer articles, train fewer reporters and writers, sponsor fewer podcasts and webinars, attend fewer conventions, pull in our reach.

It’s only 64 pages long, but it’s fully loaded with portraits of famous queer, mostly American, performers, playwrights, writers, artists and activists who have made a difference in the world. On facing pages of this 9 x 7.5” paperbound book we encounter 27 short bios (ca.

Susan Alcorn has carved out a multi-sided musical career for herself focusing on her main instrument, the pedal steel guitar. Based on her previous albums, it would appear that she is capable of almost anything.

Sadly, this book review is also an obituary and a memoir. In early 2023, The University of Chicago Press published a collection of Michael Denneny’s writings, On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death After Stonewall.