One writer’s view of St. John, 11 weeks after Hurricane Irma. At first it all seems almost normal. After two months of waiting, of searching for clues, of seeing the pictures of the devastation and the signs of renewal, of …
Becky Ward will be home on St. John for Thanksgiving, but it’s a homecoming tinged with heartache. Though she, her partner, Patrick Rooney, and their two-year-old daughter, Hazel, are returning, Patrick’s 10-year-old son, Jack, is staying behind in Virginia where …
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Originally published in The Philadelphia Inquirer October 12, 2017 Horton…heard it again! Just a very faint yelp As if some tiny person were calling for help. from Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss I can’t tell you what it …
Thanks to DJ Questlove (from The Roots and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) who presided over the music for six hours at the Brooklyn Bowl in NYC this weekend to raise money for Hurricane Irma relief on St. John. …
As we get ready to begin another inspiring season of writing about the performing arts, we wanted to take a moment to highlight a few of the world-class organizations we’ve had the privilege of working with over the last season. …
Last night we had the pleasure of indulging in a favorite summer tradition: attending The Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park with friends. We missed this season’s controversial Julius Caesar, but made it back to New York in time …
At 12 noon on January 20th, I was with the President. The 33rd President. I happened to be in Key West, where over 20 years earlier I’d really enjoyed a visit to Harry Truman’s Little White House. I decided to …
Let’s start with the color of the water. This is really what it looks like. No filter, no special effects. Just a snapshot on a regular old phone camera. Those blues and greens are real. We are celebrating the 100th …
Is it August already? We spend so much of our time looking to the future, writing about exciting performances that are coming up–later this year, sometime in 2017, there’s even been discussion of 2018!–that sometimes we forget to focus on …
When I was diagnosed with cancer eight years ago, here’s how I described getting the news: This, by the way, is how you find out: You make an appointment at a prestigious teaching hospital in a major East Coast city. …