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From Tragedy, A Miracle New Haven

From Tragedy, A Miracle

Long Wharf Theatre, Collective Consciousness, and Off-Broadway Theatre team up for a raw, home-grown one-man show.

  • Go to the profile of  Aster Aguilar
Aster Aguilar
19 May 2025 · 3 min read
A Study in Stripes Philadelphia

A Study in Stripes

Gianna Commito's geometric designs trace a lineage through the most basic shapes.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
19 May 2025 · 3 min read
All Aboard The Self-Driving Train! Detroit

All Aboard The Self-Driving Train!

At a new interactive exhibit at Michigan Central Station's Newlab.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
18 May 2025 · 2 min read
Baby Rose Steals The Show Detroit

Baby Rose Steals The Show

As she and BADBADNOTGOOD psychedelic-freak out In Detroit.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
16 May 2025 · 3 min read
Until You Witness Lucha Libre, You Might Not Know You’re A Pro Wrestling Fan Tulsa

Until You Witness Lucha Libre, You Might Not Know You’re A Pro Wrestling Fan

Every year in early May, the unmistakable crash of body slams on canvas can be heard echoing through Boston Avenue's canyon of art deco decadence, as lucha libre fills the air.

  • Go to the profile of  Quinn Carver Johnson
Quinn Carver Johnson
16 May 2025 · 7 min read
Girl Math: A Bargain for Love and Money Oakland

Girl Math: A Bargain for Love and Money

Martyna Majok’s “Ironbound” takes Oakland Theater Project’s space, strips it back, and fills it with longing and pain, in a deeply human way.

  • Go to the profile of  Rita Sapunor
Rita Sapunor
16 May 2025 · 2 min read
Connectors to Our Shared Humanity Oakland

Connectors to Our Shared Humanity

Faith photographed: The structures, [Sertorio] says, “all express the beliefs and aspirations of specific people living in a particular time and place; a continuing, shared human search for meaning.”

  • Go to the profile of  Agustín Maes
Agustín Maes
16 May 2025 · 5 min read
A City at the Crossroads: Oakland’s Global Role All Over

A City at the Crossroads: Oakland’s Global Role

Madrigal has deftly illuminated a web of history, credit, globalization and customer desire that created the landscape that we know of as Oakland today.

  • Go to the profile of  Vita Hewitt
Vita Hewitt
16 May 2025 · 4 min read
Renée Fleming, Cringe-Free Tulsa

Renée Fleming, Cringe-Free

I'm not usually a fan of classical singing in concert. Then Fleming came onstage, and my prejudices evaporated.

  • Go to the profile of  Yvonne Hazelton
Yvonne Hazelton
16 May 2025 · 4 min read
Hartford

The Sweetness Of Sade Eases The Bitterness Of Defeat

As TV sports share the bar with a live open mic.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
15 May 2025 · 3 min read
Unjust Thoughts All Over

Unjust Thoughts

Lori Ostlund’s collection of short stories explores the daily pains of family, love, and trauma, in an easy to consume package.

  • Go to the profile of  Sarah Bass
Sarah Bass
15 May 2025 · 3 min read
Poignant Play Takes Aim At America’s Out-Of-Control Gun Violence Detroit

Poignant Play Takes Aim At America’s Out-Of-Control Gun Violence

In “Soft Target,” a girl’s toys help her process a school shooting.

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
15 May 2025 · 2 min read
Broken, Bustling Neighborhoods Philadelphia

Broken, Bustling Neighborhoods

"Contemporary Ruins" at Drexel showcases the demolition and rebuilding of modern day Philadelphia.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
15 May 2025 · 2 min read
Fear And Loathing At The Opera Detroit

Fear And Loathing At The Opera

“The Central Park Five” taps into real fears, but falls short of catharsis.

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
14 May 2025 · 4 min read
My First Time As An Oil Painting Detroit

My First Time As An Oil Painting

The eyes have it at a pop-up of Richard Wilson's powerful portraits of Detroit characters.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
14 May 2025 · 4 min read
Fontaines D.C. Deliver Detroit

Fontaines D.C. Deliver

On all fronts, at the Fillmore Detroit.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
14 May 2025 · 3 min read
Halloween Hits In May Detroit

Halloween Hits In May

At a haunted trail.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
14 May 2025 · 3 min read
33 Artists Go Plant-Based New Haven

33 Artists Go Plant-Based

In downtown New Haven group show.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
14 May 2025 · 5 min read
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