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This Is Glass New Haven

This Is Glass

Former manufacturer’s ghosts inspire resistive and radical art-making at NXTHVN.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
16 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Highway To Heaven Philadelphia

Highway To Heaven

Namwon Choi's highway-themed 3D paintings drive home the power of connection.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
14 Mar 2025 · 2 min read
English Lessons Detroit

English Lessons

Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer-winning play about a class in Iran makes us see language and identity in a new way.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
14 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
No Time To Waste Detroit

No Time To Waste

"Kimberly Akimbo" has a great time reminding us that life is precious.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
14 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
This One Goes Out To The Theatre Kids Tulsa

This One Goes Out To The Theatre Kids

[title of show] was a euphoric shot of musical theatre in its most concentrated and—for the theatre-kid adjacent—anyway, relatable form.

  • Go to the profile of  Alicia Chesser
Alicia Chesser
14 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Yale Rep Breaks Fourth Russian Wall New Haven

Yale Rep Breaks Fourth Russian Wall

Snow gets on everything in revival of Nikolai Gogol’s "The Inspector."

  • Go to the profile of  Aster Aguilar
Aster Aguilar
14 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Sweet Delivery New Haven

Sweet Delivery

A trip to the post office leads to the art stop leads to the family farms leads to ... candied orange peels.

  • Go to the profile of  Liz Grace
Liz Grace
14 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
Patricia Wolf Made Me Listen Tulsa

Patricia Wolf Made Me Listen

Saying that Wolf’s work is “inspired” by nature would sell it short.

  • Go to the profile of  Todd Woodlan
Todd Woodlan
13 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Dreams Of Earth And Sky Philadelphia

Dreams Of Earth And Sky

An exhibit at the Clay Studio explores millennial fragility and form through "glazed earthenware."

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
13 Mar 2025 · 2 min read
"SAMURAI" Was Made For Me Personally Tulsa

"SAMURAI" Was Made For Me Personally

Philbrook is at its best when it engages playful and academic sides simultaneously, something this exhibition does extraordinarily well.

  • Go to the profile of  Z.B. Reeves
Z.B. Reeves
12 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Let's Learn About Feminist Typography (With Beer!) Tulsa

Let's Learn About Feminist Typography (With Beer!)

I don’t know that I’d have enjoyed this event if I had just spent all day in class, but a lot of days I miss my more academic self, and this was a short and sweet opportunity to visit her.

  • Go to the profile of  Becky Carman
Becky Carman
12 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
Double The Trouble All Over

Double The Trouble

Mickey 17 has as many plots as Mickeys.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
12 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
A "Double Take" On Ending It All Detroit

A "Double Take" On Ending It All

A dark comedy tackles suicide, and emerges with hope.

  • Go to the profile of  Erica Hobbs
Erica Hobbs
12 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Where The Sidewalk Cracks Philadelphia

Where The Sidewalk Cracks

On a Philly stage, Shel Silverstein's adult humor loses childlike wonder.

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
11 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Three Funky Divas Stroll Into A Jazz Club Oakland

Three Funky Divas Stroll Into A Jazz Club

Martha High led a female-fronted tribute to the music of James Brown featuring several people who sang and played with the Godfather of Soul.

  • Go to the profile of  Tony Daquipa
Tony Daquipa
11 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
One Resurrection After Another Hartford

One Resurrection After Another

Haitian art, and moving forward.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
11 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Visual Oddities Go Beyond The Fuss New Haven

Visual Oddities Go Beyond The Fuss

At coffeehouse pop-up.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
11 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Get This Bread All Over

Get This Bread

A fresh book by baker and writer Jim Franks frames culinary experimentation as a coping tactic for existential dread.

  • Go to the profile of  Izzy True
Izzy True
10 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
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