Page to Stage

Page to Stage

The first “issue” of Live Art Magazine!, a new, annual stage venture with the shape and structure of an art and music magazine, is almost ready for your perusal. The first few performers set the tone for the evening, with a quick-hitting series of short,...
Downstairs Upstairs

Downstairs Upstairs

Your typical tour of a historical mansion invites you to see the house through the eyes of its wealthy and powerful owners. You glide through sumptuous public rooms and peep into ornate bedchambers, with perhaps a passing reference to the household’s servants as...
Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

“There’s only three things the guys let you be if you’re a girl in the military—a bitch, a ho or a dyke. You can’t win.” So says one of the real-life women depicted in The Lonely Soldier Project. Subtitled “a nonfiction...
Stagestruck: Gobsmacked by History

Stagestruck: Gobsmacked by History

Conspiracy theory is a volatile beast. It stirs strong passions, pitting true believers against equally pious defenders of the official line. On one side are those who find plots and cover-ups in contradictions, murky doings and can’t-be-coincidences. On the...
Samurai, Shinto and Sake

Samurai, Shinto and Sake

They start the day with a 16-mile run, followed by rehearsals on a veritable orchestra of Taiko drums. Then, for more than half the year, they tour the world with a show that combines precision rhythms with explosive sound and near-acrobatic showmanship. They are...