Recent Performing Arts Columns

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Friday, October 30 2009

Can Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ Resurrect BAM?

By Roland Laird

Film adaptations from black masterpieces -- and the Chitlin Circuit -- are rejuvenating America's Black Arts Movement.

(more Write Black at You)

Friday, September 25 2009

Hal Ashby: Hollywood Rebel

By Rodger Jacobs

Films and books strive toward a common goal: telling a story. And very few modern filmmakers are as good at spinning a yarn as the late Hal Ashby was.

(more Deconstruction Zone)

Tuesday, September 8 2009

Louisiana Woman, Texas Troubadour

By Juli Thanki

Need more duets in your life? Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb are among country music's best partnerships.

(more Torch & Twang)

Thursday, June 11 2009

Great Vibrations: An Interview with Gary Burton

By Will Layman

Our jazz critic talks to Gary Burton about his reunion with Pat Metheny, about starting a "gentle" jazz-rock group, and that no one seems to know what a "vibraphone" really is.

(more Jazz Today)

Wednesday, February 11 2009

Beyond the Bubble of the Grammys

By Derek Beres

The Grammys suffer from the same problem as the rest of the recording industry: thinking America defines culture.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Wednesday, February 4 2009

Across the Universe, for the Sixth Time

By Derek Beres

This year's globalFEST was punctuated by performances from Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, La Troba Kung-Fu, Kailash Kher, Watcha Clan, and others -- a brave journey through the world of sounds, guided by open minds and big hearts.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Tuesday, February 3 2009

Concert Overload

By Ben Rubenstein

Free-for-all shows are like a "cool" parent trying to be your friend, instead of your authority figure. While it seems like a good situation at first -- no curfew, no rules -- you realize, eventually, that what it really needs is some structure.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Thursday, September 25 2008

Retelling the Story of Black Music: Bert Williams, Godfather of the Black Stage & Studio

By Mark Reynolds

Bert Williams in blackface started a conversation about representing blackness within a mainstream context that has continued through virtually every crossover moment in black American life.

(more Negritude 2.0)

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