The production, sticking closely to Shakespeare’s text (in translation), highlights the narratives of women whose bodies are traded as commodities and emphasizes that no sexual relationship can be fulfilling without affirmative consent. Read more…
Archive for Lora Kelley
('17, Classics) grew up in Evanston, Illinois. She wants to write a museum.
Remembering the Truths of the Plot A Review of The Balcony
Jean Genet’s The Balcony defies easy standards of “like” and “dislike”. Read more…
Keith Haring for $28
I deeply value museums. But I also know that they are, by nature, institutions for the elite. Read more…
Moments of Pause IV: Spuds & Duds
If you like to waltz with tomatoes…. Read more…
Write Club and Literary Bloodsport
It works like a boxing match. There are three rounds. Each writer has been given a prompt ahead of time. Working with opposing themes like blessing and curse, reap and sow, light and dark, the writers have seven minutes to perform their essay or short story or poem or list. Whoever gets the most claps from the audience wins. Read more…
2015’s Original Winter One Acts is delightfully absurd
It’s the year of the absurd, the year of the meta-theater, the year of the nearly-nude, and a year not to miss Ramshead’s Original Winter One Acts. Read more…
Uninhibited by Objecthood Markus Schinwald at the CCA Wattis Institute
Human and object bleed together in Markus Schinwald’s furniture sculptures and futuristic paintings. Read more…
The Unpacking of Marilynne Robinson
The crowd at Robinson’s interview comprised a mix of middle-aged literary types and, unusually, Calvinists (more on that later). Read more…
Dic Pic: An Intimate Snapshot of How We Use the Online Dictionary
imagesBy(Alex Bayer)
We assume the dictionary has the answers, but it needs us to first ask questions. In the intimate act of looking up a word, we tell a piece of wide lexicographical narrative. Read more…
30 Plays in 60 Minutes: A Review of Neo Futurist Performance ‘Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind’
A blue plastic action figure was my ticket into an hour of hot peppers, raw meat, boners, ketchup vomit, feminism, Lil Jon, and candid questioning of the human condition. Read more…