Boston A “Death March” Literary Battle At The Brattle Literary Death Match, The Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St. Cambridge, Mass. When I think of a literary reading, I think of cardigan sweaters, stuffy rooms, and restrained academic earnestness. When Sasha Patkin 20 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Devil Is In The Details In New Roundabout Play Covenant Roundabout Theatre Company 111 W. 46th St New York City Through Dec. 17 Halloween might be over, but squeals of terror and delight still fill the air of New Adam Wassilchalk 19 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
NYC Big Girls Don’t Shy Big Girl Baby’s All Right 146 Broadway Williamsburg, Brooklyn Nov. 17, 2023 There’s nothing bare bones about Big Girl. Kaitlin Pelky’s femme-maximalist rock outfit commanded Baby’s K Hank Jost 19 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
LA Choose Your Own Hamletmachine SIX SCENES FOR SCENE SIX OF HEINER MÜLLER’S HAMLETMACHINE The Elysian Los Angeles Nov. 11, 2023 As a non-theater-theater-person (terrified of the inherent self-perpetuated humiliation associated with freeform improv Siena Foster-Soltis 17 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Boo, Hiss, Splat, Singalong: 70 Years of Old-Timey Antics at the Spotlight “The Drunkard and the Olio“ 70th Anniversary Show Nov. 11, 2023 Spotlight Theater Tulsa What’s that odd white building along the Cry Baby Hill route, with the geometric fountain, Cassidy McCants 17 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Why The “Saints” Came Marching In When Two Worlds Met: Through European Eyes Stanley-Whitman House Farmington Nov. 16, 2023 The European colonization of the Americas is one of those world-altering events in history. There were nearly Jamil Ragland 17 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Oakland Look Up There: Art Enters The Window We Grow Slowly Then We Disappear Michael Hyun Gu Kang The Roll Up Project 217 Harrison St., Oakland Through Dec. 13 On an almost quiet corner of the Jack London Sarah Bass 17 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Put “Everything & Nothing” On View Hyunsuk Erickson’s Thingumabob Tribe #3 spreads out across one of the first-floor galleries of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Their sinuous shapes and bright colors might carry, for Brian Slattery 17 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
LA A Podcast Far Gone: Why Are We Pretending This Is Good? HOW LONG GONE El Rey Theater Los Angeles Nov. 11, 2023. Occasionally, there are men who are so untalented, so uninteresting, and so entitled that they insist on starting a Madeline Connors 16 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford The Trombone Sings at Black Eyed Sally’s Dr. Emmett Goods Black Eyed Sally’s Hartford Nov. 15, 2023 The trombone is not the first instrument I associate with jazz music. I’d seen trombones as part of Jamil Ragland 16 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa “Nobody Smokes Anymore” And Other Observations From Robert Ellis’s Visit To The Mercury Lounge Robert Ellis Mercury Lounge Tulsa Nov. 10, 2023 Live, songwriter and instrumentalist Robert Ellis zigs and zags between silly and poignant, gentle and effusive, bantering with the laugh of a Becky Carman 16 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven “Magical Thinking” Is The Real Deal In New Production Of Joan Didion’s Meditation On Profound Loss “This happened on Dec.r 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you. And it will happen to you. The details Brian Slattery 16 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Jazz Spacesters Bring Light To Dive Bar Tim Dahl, Matt Nelson, Alexis Marcelo, and Richard Edson Mama Tried 787 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NYC Nov. 15, 2023 Save for Chicago, New York City seems to me to be K Hank Jost 16 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
NYC Public-Housing Art Creates Bridges To Somewhere, And A Right To Dream Public art displays Carver Houses, Madison Avenue and East 100th Street Saint Nicholas Houses, 230 West 131st St. Elliott Houses, 420 West 26th St. On view year-round, until Elliott-Chelsea Houses Betsy Kim 15 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
Oakland Oh (Po’) Boy Brenda’s 4045 Broadway St. Oakland CA Brenda’s, a new New Orleans kitchen (as in new food, not new restaurant) in Oakland, offers the expected Southern charm and disposition Sarah Bass 15 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
LA Words Nerds, Scenesters Keep It Lit CASUAL ENCOUNTERSZ alt-lit reading No Moon LA Los Angeles Nov. 2, 2023 Strip poker with a blow-up doll, Minnesota meth murder, sub sex addiction, Jet Blue fuckups, a bloody foot Jack Skelley 15 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
Oakland Black Women Power, Shown Large Throughline: An Art and Culinary Experience 1500 Broadway St, Oakland Through Nov. 19 In a city like Oakland, damn near everyone, especially in the arts, is connected in some way Sarah Bass 14 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford A Trip to the Emerald Isle, by Way of Hartford Music Mondays: Celtic Sounds Parkville Market, Hartford Nov. 13, 2023 “Make sure you come back, if you want to go even further down the rabbit hole.” That’s what Carol Jamil Ragland 14 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
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