What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The piece of art that changed my life was seeing Charles Ludlam getting ready to be Marguerite Gautier. He was in dress rehearsal for a benefit for The Ridiculous Theatrical Company called Taboo Tableaux. It [...]

A few weeks back, Ira Glass told me Fiddler on the Roof changed his life. Coincidentally, a production of Fiddler—featuring the legendary Topol, who also starred in the 1971 film, in the lead role—opened last night at the Hippodrome. I hadn't seen it since I was a teenager, so I figured I'd check it out [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?

I didn’t see it this way at the time, but, in retrospect, I think Fiddler on the Roof changed my life. My mom used to take my sisters and me to the musicals at Painters [...]

The Washington National Opera will bring Puccini's Turandot, featuring Sabina Cvilak (pictured left), to the Lyric Opera House on June 2. It's the first major opera production in town since the Baltimore Opera Company closed a month ago. So opera fans can rejoice, at least for a night.
Here are some comments from the press release:
“We [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
It is  a hard question for me cause I can't say that any one work caused an art epiphany, my head is always spinning. As a child I remember being fascinated with the decayed swan boats of Asbury Park  and the artificial sky and fake [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I guess it's too cliché to say Rent, so I won't. What I will say is when Les Miserables came to Baltimore, I saw it at the Mechanic. I was probably around 12... I had never been moved to tears by anything before [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
When I was fifteen, my high school on Long Island put on a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Prior to that, I had not been exposed to anything artistic—theater, classical music, dance, visual arts, what have you—but from experiencing that show, and [...]

It's not every evening you go to the theater and find a fierce linebacker opening the show. But at the Hippodrome last night, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis ambled onstage and read the first few pages of How the Grinch Stole Christmas before the curtain went up on the musical version of that Dr. Seuss classic. [...]

What piece of art changed your life? And how did it affect you?
When I was 14, my mother gave me a copy of the book Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk. It was such a love letter to New York City. It’s a very interesting story about the coming of age of a young woman and [...]