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...
"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"
"I wish it didn’t feel so current, but it does. That urgency was very much part of what propelled me forward."
"In stand-up, I fight for the thickness of a laugh. In 'Hamlet,' I fight for the thickness of silence."
"What Shakespeare does is dismantle the myth of the perfect hero. When he dismantles the myth of pure evil, he’s also forced to dismantle the myth of pure good."