Sondheim Songs Pit Painter’s Life vs. Art Biz by Robert M. Gardner Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical “Sunday in the Park with George” offers insights into Georges Seurat’s famous room-size painting of Parisians in the park. At the end, Seurat’s fictional great-grandson, a modern artist, explains, “White. A blank page—or canvas. So many…
Reflections Chaim Topol’s Tevye Proves We Can Change by Jordan Freed A few days ago, I noticed that Netflix was suggesting the 1971 film of the 1964 musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” In the preview, they showed the popular Chaim Topol playing Tevye, the father. As Topol sang the joyful song, “If I Were…
Holland Taylor Resurrects Ann Richards, A Political Giant by Jennifer Ann Charron The weirder the 21st Century gets, the more the late 20th Century seems a million miles away. I find this true with just about everything, but never more shocking in the world of politics. I’ll save the chilling discussion of the rise…
Dominique Morisseau Exposes Race, Class Bias in Schools by Patricia L. Morin Dominique Morisseau’s “Pipeline”—based on the School-to-Prison Pipeline for students of color—profiles a divorced mom’s struggle with the expectation her son will end up in prison, like so many urban Black teens. On Lincoln Center’s small stage, Director Lileana Blain-Cruz uses Matt Sanders’…