In 1977, playwright/director Luis Valdez, brought his play “Zoot Suit” to Gordon Davidson, the Artistic Director of the Mark Taper Forum with the hope that one of the country’s most prestigious Regional Theatres would produce his controversial story of social injustice and police brutality toward Latino’s in the city of Angels. And he wanted to do it with a cast of mostly Latino performers.

The national tour production, of 2015 Tony winner Fun Home is now on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre. It is an eye-opening and somewhat of a ground-breaking production, in that it tells the story of a gay young woman’s sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family.

On the edge of the Mexican jungle, a seedy hotel is the meeting place of several desperate characters. Directed by Michael Wilson (Broadway's The Trip to Bountiful, The Best Man), Williams’ feverishly poetic 1961 drama follows a hotel proprietress and the scandal-soaked Southern preacher who turns up on her veranda. A Nantucket portrait artist traveling with her ancient poet grandfather, a bus of fuming Texan college students and administrators, and a party of German vacationers collide in this drama about how far we travel to outrun the demons within. With a star-studded cast, this production may be the must-see event of the 2016-2017 theatrical season.

The Berkshire-based professional theatre company celebrates its eighth year with two Main Stage productions, a thought-provoking series of play readings, and several exciting new collaborations and initiatives 2.017 season explores a broad range of perspectives around issues affecting women and girls.

Linda comes across the pond after creating a stir on the West End. No question that the title role performance by Jamie Dee is worth the price of the ticket. Perhaps because we live in a Sephora culture in the US, the issues do not seem quite so relevant in New York. Yet Lynne Meadow directing keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Tinazzi was founded in 1968, which is quite recent for a winery that produces over two million bottles of wine a year. Valpolicella shines on the vineyards 110 acres near Lake Garda in Veneto.

There is a 0.1 percent sales tax for arts and culture in Denver’s seven-county metro area. At just one cent for every ten dollars it generates $1.85 billion annually in economic activity, creates 10,205 jobs, and stimulates $520 million in tourism.

La Quinta Resort & Club will host thirteen wineries pouring their special wines at a wine tasting on March 1st from 3:30-6pm

Schubert tripped the light fantastic, and so too René Staar, contemporary composer and musical polymath. Strauss Richard showed us how to share whatever narcissism we have with others and make it work. Another Strauss was a fillp to the moving and delightful evening at Carnegie Hall.

With the exception of the gravitas of Raghead by Tom Coash the 6th annual 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage was upbeat, lively and often hilarious.

The truest and most palpably Chekhovian version of Vanya may well be Annie Baker’s new translation/adaptation, which opened this week at the Goodman Theatre, directed by Robert Falls

Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Paterson” – about a poet named Paterson who drives a bus for a living in Paterson, New Jersey – is concerned not simply with poetry and the craft of prosody, but with the very nature of language itself.

Five Boston museum directors have signed a letter of concern over reports that the National Endowment for the Arts is under threat of being abolished, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Under the conservative agenda of the Trump adminsitration this is an attack on the arts in America. Guarding the Trumps in NY, DC and Palm Beach for a week is on a par with endowment support.

"The Little Mermaid" swims into Ft. Lauderdale's Broaward Center for the Performing Arts. A tedious production with new staging is anchored in South Florida through March 5 Children will delight in production's visuals.

Great Valpolicella wines are made by the 60 acre, Villa San Carlo vineyard, located east of Verona, Italy. Proper growing conditions and a sustainable family operation make this small winery a consumer favorite.

The New York premiere of Carlisle Floyd's opera, Prince of Players, is mounted by little OPERA. The wonderful story is about a male actor who has made his livelihood playing women's roles and is out of job because King Charles II has issued an edict permitting women to play women's roles. The final outcome is surprising, but well-plotted by the composer, who is also his own librettist.

Carnegie Hall has treated us with a two week virtual trip to Venice in the late 17th century. The final evening's performance was Claudio Monteverdi's last opera, L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Concerto Italiano produced a moving interpretation, ranging from camp fun to the deep contralto feelings of Ottone. Monteverdi began a tradition that lives on today in the operas of Kevin Puts, Nico Muhly and Missy Mazzoli.

Who would have expected that Charles Giuliano an artist, journalist is also a Gourmet Cook.

Our pursuit of the Wines of Georgia reached its peak at an exclusive wine tasting in Manhattan, led by the over 40 wines that represented the unique style of Georgian winemaking.

This year's Berlinale from February 9 - 19, 2017, started with high expectations and ended in a lukewarm acceptance of choices the international jury of seven presented at the Berlinale Palace on February 18. Although the jury made their selections only from the 18 submissions for the big prizes - the Golden Bear and seven Silver Bears in the Competition - it is this section that counts. The Competition is the heart and center of this huge international film festival that also turns every year into a film-viewing orgy for around 4000 critics as well as for a huge number of highly motivated moviegoers.

Tanglewood has announced plans for the construction of a new multi-use, multi-season four-building complex designed to support the performance and rehearsal activities of the Tanglewood Music Center and be the focal point of a new initiative, the Tanglewood Learning Institute, offering wide-ranging education and enrichment programs designed to enhance the patron experience.

Shakespeare & Company announces that Adam Davis, long-time Managing Director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and former Company Manager of the La Jolla Playhouse, has been named as the Company's new Managing Director.

Carnegie Hall includes in their celebration of Venetian music a group of young artists, Ensemble Y. Instrumentalists and singers gave great pleasure in baroque music.

Tympanic Theatre adds another dimension to its new and well-performed production of Waiting for Godot. Director Aaron Mays sets the scene on the Mexican border and casts talented Latino actors to play the woebegone but always-optimistic Vladimir (Christopher Acevedo) and his morose but resilient road-buddy, Estragon (Felipe Carrasco).

In the Disney musical hit “Newsies,” which is based on a true story, the hated man is newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who jacked up the price for newsboys to buy the very papers they were to sell.