Opera Review: The Unseen Great War, in William Kentridge’sThe Head and the Load

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Kentridges dance of shadows, his charcoal landscapes, and animated maps all have his usual frenetic elegance. Evil colonists shout in overlapping streams of French, German, and Italian gibberish. The Head and the Loadis at the Park Avenue Armory through December 15.

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 56 words · Valerie Baldwin

Reasons Why We Must Be Cast As Extras in theCatsMovie

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Those names, you ask? They are …ournames (Patti Harrison and Mitra Jouhari). We know what youre thinking.Who are you two? Ive never heard of either of you. I smell :(And, well, we agree! We know we seem like a pair of crap-nobody humanity stains, but hear us out. Also because we had one line.) Plus, were really nice....

December 7, 2018 · 2 min · 337 words · Donna Daniels

Reese Witherspoon Is Taking YouWhere the Crawdads Sing, Which Is Also 100% Where a Murder Happened

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Investigation Discovery has pretty much cornered the market onswamp murders, but marsh murders? The book was this years September pick for Reeses Book Club. If that doesnt sound horrible enough, dont worry. turns up dead in the marsh. Related Tags:

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 55 words · Robert Owens

Remembering Buzzcocks Front Man Pete Shelley

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Its been a day since Buzzcocks front manPete Shelley diedand theres not a well, actually in sight. In the summer of 1990, I turned 15. I cant imagine a better time and circumstance to discover the Buzzcocks. Sad girls and solipsistic boys; pop-punk in a bottle. Arguing about the pop-punk is as fun as arguing about punk is dreary....

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 203 words · Faith Jones

Sara Bareilles Will Return toWaitressOnce Again, This Time With Gavin Creel

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. At this point, Sara Bareilles is less a pop star and more a regular Broadway performer. Bareilles previously wentinto the show in 2017and again early this yearacross from Jason Mraz. This time, shell star across from Tony winner Gavin Creel (Hello, Dolly! ), who will play Dr. Pomatter. Theyll lead the show from January 7 to February 3....

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 73 words · Timothy Franco

Shea Strauss Uses Drawing As Therapy

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Shea Strauss (@sheadoodleson Instagram) is a writer and illustrator in Brooklyn. What inspires you to draw?I use drawing as therapy. Sometimes its to process personal issues or political outrage. Other times its a calming exercise to get a dumb song lyric out of my head. Calling dibs, just in case. Pull-out drawings are especially fun to draw....

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 161 words · Derek Hansen

The 10 Best Classical-Music Performances of 2018

Messiaen, Mahler, and a mile of singers. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. As if to sayanti-Semites? This is music that requires titanium technique and even rarer a rich inner life. Live and on disc, Gandelsman shares them both. Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich at Zankel Hall Were in a golden age of Oliver Messiaen. A master of the immense orchestra, Messiaen could also pack a whole cosmos into piano music....

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 80 words · Charles Adams

The 10 Best Comics of 2018

Meditations on happiness, explorations of paranoia, moments of great historical truth, and more. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Okay, on to the books. All victories are high-interest loans, with the true cost obscured until its time to pay the piper. So, too, were gender lines, at least in Wangs view. 8.Upgrade Soulby Ezra Claytan Daniels (Lion Forge)I hesitate to describe anything that occurs inUpgrade Soul....

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 152 words · Thomas Conner

The 10 Best Theater Productions of 2018

Vigorous new lives for old Greeks, pioneer Oklahomans, and American Legion speechifying. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The year 2018 was full of spectacle, from boy wizards to big apes. By my count, Ive seen 142 shows in 2018, with a few still to go. Here are ten that stuck (plus three to grow on). I left feeling genuinely lightheaded, which seems just about right for a visit to cloud-cuckoo-land....

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 164 words · Edward Hodges

The 10 Best Video Games of 2018

Superheroes, Norse mythology, and a Wild West masterpiece. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Thesheer number of instant classics released in 2017meant 2018 could easily have felt like a letdown. Instead, the year continued gamings hot streak. Fortnitemade gaming more culturally relevant than its ever been, turning a whole cadre of Twitch streamers into micro-celebrities. And some truly pleasant surprises stayed under the radar until right before release, like the jaw-droppingTetris Effect....

December 7, 2018 · 1 min · 183 words · Donald Kaufman

The Alchemy Between Late-Night Host and Guest

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Julia Roberts went onThe Late Showthis week, and it was worlds away from her appearance onBusy Tonight. OnBusy,Robertsaimed a leaf blower at her face for the gram. She was game and giggly. With Stephen Colbert, she was guarded. I felt like I was watchingFrost/Nixon.Colbert tried to start a feud betweenRoberts and herBen Is Backco-star Lucas Hedges....

December 7, 2018 · 2 min · 305 words · Justin Roth

The Big Bang TheoryRecap: When Sheldon Met Sheldon

The Big Bang Theory Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Yep, so resilient. They deserved better for having made the journey. The Coopers reaction to the Russian paper has seemed rather extreme ever since Leonard told them about it. [Stephen] Hawking? [Richard] Feynman? Himself, says Leonard. George Sr. tells his players, including Georgie, that they are almost certainly going to lose the game....

December 7, 2018 · 2 min · 295 words · Crystal Simmons

The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselRecap: Ready for Her Close-Up

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Man, I really hate it when couples fight. No, not Midge and Benjamin. Jane Lynchs Sophie is as calm as Alex Borsteins Susie is livid. But at the same time, I can see why Midge is upset that Susie didnt let it go. She has people laughing, she has people calling, she hypnotizes viewers to vote for Kennedy (sweet!...

December 7, 2018 · 2 min · 267 words · Monica Haley