Cultural Attaché

Bill Frisell celebrates his 75th birthday and America begins to celebrate its 250th.

Sarah Kirkland Snider's "Forward Into Light" and Daníel Bjarnason's "The Grotesque & The Sublime" are both top picks this week

"The things in your work that you end up feeling happiest with, you don’t know where they come from. The things you feel least happy with are the ones where you know it came from your brain."

"I’ve become very comfortable just being myself and bringing the audience along with me."

Two world premiere plays and a world premiere musical

John Lennon wrote “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” My apologies for the absence of this weekly column for a few weeks. But I’m back with New In Music This Week: February 20th and will catch up on some great releases very soon from those three weeks. My top pick for New In Music This Week: February...

"The older you get, the more your heart gets broken, the more you realize about life, the deeper the music gets. "

Jefferson Mays stars as Salieri in Pasadena Playhouse's production of "Amadeus"

Attend the tales of "Sweeney Todd," "The Dance of Death" and some great music

"I wish it didn’t feel so current, but it does. That urgency was very much part of what propelled me forward."