
This Streetcar rides a little too smoothly
Director Sheila Daniels' debut at Intiman tackles a play so vivid in our memories that it is hard to make it new, or to bring back what once made it so incendiary.
Director Sheila Daniels' debut at Intiman tackles a play so vivid in our memories that it is hard to make it new, or to bring back what once made it so incendiary.
The symphony embarks on some new, non-traditional programming directions as it faces a decline in season ticket buyers and tight finances. So far, it seems to be working.
A season-ending display of the Symphony's firepower, with Wagner and Mahler, produces some lovely moments and some curious spells of sputtering.
We like to think of creativity as a mysterious, indeterminate quality that resists being measured. But it's also a potent economic reality, as the National Endowment for the Arts emphasizes — through the drama of statistics — in a comprehensive new report [PDF] [http://www.arts.gov/research/Artists
Andrew Weems stars in Namaste Man, directed by Bart Sher, a fascinating one-man play that shuttles between boyhood memories and Eastern wisdom, New York and Nepal.