Film and television dominate the arts in Los Angeles, but L.A. has a thriving theatre culture that hasn’t received the attention the New York stage commands. Even during the pandemic,…
How has the pandemic has changed theater, aside from the obvious fact that live audiences are currently forbidden? At this point it’s impossible for plays to rehearse. People cannot gather…
still from the film Rosas Danst Rosas, directed by Stefaan Decostere These days everyone in my life seems to have an obsession: wormeries, reusable tissues, queer Tinder bios in rural…
This is a five paragraph essay about the five positions • This essay will explain something • in particular how dancer-choreographer Simone Forti inserted the personal in her work but…
1. During Sibelius’ Symphony #2, horses gallop on distant pastures. Waves lift the reeds and muscles trade with trembling strings. I smell leather. Hollows fill and water splashes from hoof-beats.…
Some Notes on Lara Mimosa Montes that I’m calling Visibility In-Storm On Saturday November 21st, 2017 as part of the momentous Thinking its Presence Conference in Tucson, Arizona, I attended…
I can feel the back of my skull CRACK against the University of Arizona Poetry Center theater floor. I can feel the scream follow the rug burn from the tops…
This essay is a lyric and a guess—thoughts about Wilma Deering and space opera and sound, because composer Pauline Oliveros said she loved Buck Rogers on the radio as a…
Reading Joshua Young’s play, When the Wolves Quit, was a pivotal moment in my theatre career. I was an aspiring literary manger jaded by reading the same types of plays…
The word “curate” has its roots in medieval Latin–cura “care” and curare “cure.” If curating now connotes choosing the right art for gallery walls, it began with a church curate…
Do you have a fence around your house A wall marking the borders of your yard A gate to enter the premises How many doors locks alarms Is it your…