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Big Night For Texas Philadelphia

Big Night For Texas

Hovvdy celebrated Texas from a Philly stage on election night.

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Tyler Maxwell
4 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
A man in sunglasses, a hat, a suit, and trenchcoat poses for the camera. He has an iced coffee. Gwangju

Cut! Take Two

Gwangju's Arts Education Festival zooms in on the existential relief of roleplay.

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Jisu Sheen
4 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
New Haven Academy's "Much Ado" Is Something New Haven

New Haven Academy's "Much Ado" Is Something

A high school production of the Shakespeare comedy, reimagined for the 1960s, opens Thursday night .

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
4 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Yes, The Art's In Living Color Hartford

Yes, The Art's In Living Color

At Stanwyck Cromwell's "Conversations" exhibit at 224 Ecospace.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
4 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Post-Election Rx: Link Up With Neighbors All Over

Post-Election Rx: Link Up With Neighbors

Author Eric Liu calls for a grassroots reclaiming of our broken democracy.

  • Go to the profile of  Paul Bass
Paul Bass
4 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
Iron And Wine And A Future We Can Sing About Tulsa

Iron And Wine And A Future We Can Sing About

At Guthrie Green, Ken Pomeroy and Dublin-based duo DUG opened a show that felt like a real-time antidote to dark days

  • Go to the profile of  Lindsey Claire Smith
Lindsey Claire Smith
3 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Detroit Opera’s “Tosca” Is Opera at Its Finest Detroit

Detroit Opera’s “Tosca” Is Opera at Its Finest

This story is equal parts passion, beauty, and tragedy. It is also a reminder of why authoritarian regimes fear artists.

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
3 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
The Bros Are Healing In This “Swan Lake” Tulsa

The Bros Are Healing In This “Swan Lake”

In Tulsa Ballet's production, the swans aren't the only ones going through it

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
3 Nov 2026 · 5 min read
Early Worm Catches The Wind Philadelphia

Early Worm Catches The Wind

The chamber-jazz band filled Abyssinia with double bass, sax and clarinet on Halloweekend.

  • Go to the profile of  Tyler Maxwell
Tyler Maxwell
3 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
An Ordinary Young Man Gwangju

An Ordinary Young Man

An old photo of a Peace Corps Volunteer inspired a whole movie about the Gwangju Uprising — and about government violence across the globe.

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Jisu Sheen
3 Nov 2026 · 6 min read
Houdini’s Death Day Gets a Halloween Bash in Detroit Detroit

Houdini’s Death Day Gets a Halloween Bash in Detroit

The Detroit Historical Museum’s tribute to the escape artist, who died in the Motor City on Halloween 1926, had plenty of charm but mixed results.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
2 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Best Video Screens A New Kind Of Horror New Haven

Best Video Screens A New Kind Of Horror

A VHS screening of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma gets meta.

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Brian Slattery
2 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Detroit Opera’s “Tosca” Brings the Tragic Story Closer to Home Detroit

Detroit Opera’s “Tosca” Brings the Tragic Story Closer to Home

Trading 1800 Rome for an unnamed totalitarian state, Louisa Proske’s staging makes Puccini’s tragedy feel uncomfortably current.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
2 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
Touching God Hartford

Touching God

Lisa Clayton Singers move Jamil to tears.

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Jamil Ragland
2 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
“Equus” Offers Disturbing Look at Obsession and Control Detroit

“Equus” Offers Disturbing Look at Obsession and Control

A psychological thriller about a teenage boy who looks at horses in a way horses should not be looked at.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
2 Nov 2026 · 3 min read
Kids Get Respect Hartford

Kids Get Respect

In the staging of Playhouse on Park's "Pinocchio."

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Jamil Ragland
1 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
DJ Ryan's New Release of the Week: Automatic’s “Shadowplay" (Joy Division cover) All Over

DJ Ryan's New Release of the Week: Automatic’s “Shadowplay" (Joy Division cover)

And it’s just in time for Halloween!

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
30 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
The Art Side of Theatre Bizarre Detroit

The Art Side of Theatre Bizarre

Detroit’s former popular Halloween party returns as an art exhibition.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
30 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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