To hear Sharon Litwin's interview with Dave Hurlbert on WWNO radio, click here. One could say that Dave Hurlbert moved from ballet to opera. But that would be only partially true. The owner of the Marigny Opera House, [...]

THURSDAY / Dot your I’s: Start your weekend early at Press Street 220's Happy Hour Salon, featuring esteemed writers Nathan Rich, Zachary Lazar, and Rachel Kushner. From 6-9 PM at Press Street Headquarters, LA-based Kushner and New Orleans-based [...]

Pandora Gastelum grew up in Austin, an only child who, from her earliest years, spent much of her time creating really large-scale, complex stories composed of many Barbie dolls and stuffed animals. She was, she realizes, a born [...]

Does anyone else find the use of "proposition" odd when used to mean something that will become legally absolute? Webster makes the point that a proposition is "something set forth for consideration" and sometimes "an immoral or indecent [...]

A system in crisis will undergo a lockdown.  I sat out the Bolivian census lockdown stuck indoors for 24 hours, but a quick Google search suggests the word can be as versatile to suggest lockdown on liquor sales [...]

Skin Horse Theater is defined by what it's not: Its productions are not bound by genre, or by any particular dogma, or mode of performance. The purpose is simply to do what has not done before, to try [...]