394 stories by "Susan Galbraith"
Their three-generation story takes us inside themes of class, racism, and sexism that are woven into the island's history.
¡Pa'lante! An inspiring conversation about resilience with Executive Director Rebecca Medrano and Actor Ernesto Concepción.
The creators have thrown away the rulebook. It's not jazz exactly and certainly not classical contemporary.
In these still difficult times, 'Rent' is a much-needed tonic for the soul.
In a concert called 'Come Home: A Celebration of Return,' the variety of styles and greatest hits was almost too much for the ear and heart to bear.
Choreographer/dancer Edwin Aparicio mines his own childhood memories of war and migration.
At Shakespeare Theatre, this one-man play about a hero who bore witness to the Holocaust packs a wallop.
The acclaimed production of James Baldwin's classic is back for two weeks only.
Spanish actress Mabel Del Pozo brilliantly creates a portrait of a woman who struggles with but finally eludes how society would fix her.Â
The famous opera festival in Cooperstown, New York, now in its 46th year, has been reimagined as a whole new adventure.
On this Kentucky Derby weekend, wondering what theatrical "horse" will nose ahead and augur well for a new world of theater when we can emerge from the pandemic, I'm placing my bet on Blindn…
In a world where our lives are bounded by pandemic restrictions, performance and travel alike have been reduced mostly to private viewings and stay-cations. The situation has spawned experim…
Trudging up the two flights from the rainy street-level pavement to GALA Hispanic Theatre's auditorium entrance felt like a pilgrimage. (Yes, I could have taken the elevator, but who would h…
February 8, 2020 I sat in GALA's historic entertainment "palace" to review Nilo Cruz' Exquisita Agonia. It was the last time (pre-Covid) I enjoyed live theater. Nine months later, Managing D…
Election night 2020 IN Series opened a cantata-as-opera based on the Senate Judiciary hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. It was bold enough that Artistic Director Timothy Nelson …
I click on the link and settle in for the new show, Joy!, delivered into my living room by Synetic Theater. A special surprise "Joy" box at my side ready to be opened. Check. Glass of pr…
Steam Punk as a style launches viewers into a futuristic universe while it casts a glance backwards nostalgically to a simpler, more elegant world. Miranda: A Steam Punk VR Experience create…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg well earned the sobriquet "Notorious."Â Everything about her seemed to live in happy contradiction. She followed her mother's "dueling" advice: always to be a lady and…
Learning about performance companies leaping into bold adventures and rediscovering the impulse of sharing their art in new creative ways has never been more welcome. Opera Lafayette, a comp…
We have come to the end of Synetic Theater's series of short videos based on Giovanni's classic "in-the-time-of-the-plague" entertainments. Like one of those imported Masterpiece Theatre ser…
Boccaccio's world of The Decameron continues as cyber-theater for two more rounds of short videos by Synetic Theater's company members and close associates. Imbedded in the program is one…
In trying to capture the times of our modern plague, the sum of the Synetic artists who have made these short performance works have shown us life as it has been reduced: clowns in cramped s…
Day 5 brings us three new short works by Synetic Theater members as studies on life in the time of Covid. Kat Cárdenas-Cruz put a smile on my face with her short piece, "An Artist Struggl…
"And how shall we entertain ourselves?" the characters in Boccaccio's 14th century story collection, The Decameron, keep asking, and each in turn tells a tale. In Day 3 of Synetic Theater's …
In Ronald Harwood's 20th-century play about the theater, The Dresser, the title character says of his friend who was in crisis due to depression, "What saved him was an offer of work." Isn't…
