Arts

One of my all-time favorite novels is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. To me, the novel brings up questions about what makes us human and what makes us monstrous. In my favorite section of the novel, “The Creature” lives in a wood shed attached to a cottage in the forest. A poor family with a […]

Kim Wayans (of In Living Color) is currently starring in a hilarious and irreverent new play written by David Javerbaum. An Act of God is playing at Bristol Riverside Theatre through October 13, 2019. Imagine if God herself came down to earth, took control of Kim Wayans’body, and began disabusing us of all of […]

Gloria Steinem is perhaps one of the most inspiring leaders that is still alive in America today. She worked with many other women in a movement that sought a pretty simple and seemingly uncontroversial change in our society: equality between men and women. But here we are decades later, and the pay gap between men […]

We’ve all had get-togethers with old friends we haven’t seen in a while. And we usually have great expectations that it will be a ton of fun, like old times. That is the starting point for Rachel Bonds’new play at McCarter — Goodnight Nobody. Three old friends reconnect for a weekend at a cabin […]

You still have a couple weeks left to catch McCarter Theatre Center’s new production of Skylight. Written by David Hare and directed by Emily Mann, Skylight takes us into an intimate night between two former lovers who re-process their past and ponder a possible future. Starring Mahira Kakkar, Greg Wood, and Zane Pais, the play […]

Internationally acclaimed sculptor Patrick Dougherty spent three weeks in March working on his latest sculpture, Loop de Loop, at Morris Arboretum. He had help from his son Sam, a group of staff members from the arboretum, and rotating groups of volunteers.  Loop de Loop is a maze-like structure that has the feel of a roller […]