Since I did precariously little reading on Coraline the musical (and have basically no concept of the novel or movie), I think I expected something in the Wicked department. What I got was 50-something Jayne Houdyshell in knickers and a tacky vest.
Southerners often misinterpret their personal despair as the result of something taken from their ancestors nearly two centuries ago, when, if they could see beyond that dumbfounding nostalgia, they would realize that we never lost anything we really had.
A backstage glimpse of the cast and crew of Prom Night in Mississippi…
The Odyssey took place amid one chain of islands; the forty-fourth president of the United States was born on another. In this long poem, which takes place on a third chain of islands, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott examines the power of the sea to connect and divide.
An interview with the translator of one of Norway’s great literary texts
The mixture of comedy and tragedy in Fiddler in the Roof is like something from Shakespeare or Mark Twain, except instead it is utterly unique
The Gormenghast trilogy warns of the individual trapped within the machinery of society.
When even Australia forgets its greatest writer
An interview with Charleston-based indie pop band Run Dan Run