Culture
This month in history: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
May 31, 2018May is designated as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. In its honor we publish a short selection of poems.
Read morePatriarchy x 3: Two world premiere plays and an opera
May 31, 2018Last weekend I saw a play, an opera, then another play. Mulling over what to say about them, it struck me that they’re related.
Read moreComic book artists and survivors address gun violence
May 30, 2018We live in a world where three of the ten deadliest mass shootings in recent United States history have happened within five months of one another.
Read more‘Soft Power’ imagines a Broadway musical under future Chinese hegemony
May 29, 2018It’s a fresh kind of show, open to interpretation, that makes us think self-reflectively about the entire history of the musical and its power to shape human consciousness.
Read moreBill Meyer’s key to life
May 29, 2018It's a person like Meyer who can take the differences of tone and complexity as components to seek a higher sense of harmony on the keyboard — and as a key to life.
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