A long-awaited dramatic arts center is finally set to take shape on the corner of Crown and York streets. Plans for the new Dramatic Arts Building have been in motion for the past decades; the project ...

You’re sitting in the audience, watching a production of “Hamlet.” The Danish prince himself enters, dressed in black. He performs his “to be or not to be” speech. He then winks at the audience and ...

When Marie Powers was five, an opera singer asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Said Marie: “I want to be fat, jolly and an opera singer like you.” Today, fortyish, buxom Marie Powers is ...

The dramatic spoken word that begins Omowunmi Esther Oyeleke’s “The Glorious God” kickstarts an ambience that ushers in a feeling of serenity and serendipity which soaks the listener in every portion ...

Per Borghammer’s “aha” moment came nearly 20 years ago. The neuroscientist was reading a paper from researchers who were examining whether REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), a condition that causes ...

Dear Eric: My 78-year-old mother is a very kind and generous person; however, she goes through life looking through a lens of negativity. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong in her eyes. She ...

Following on from the previous day’s performance of Monteverdi’s “Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria,” Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri continued with a production of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” coupled with ...

Contraltos are a neglected bunch. The few operatic roles that do exist especially for them are mostly elderly crones, evil witches or ‘trouser roles’ - where a low-voiced female is cast as a man. An ...

While dramatic irony entails a contrast between what an audience knows and what characters know, verbal irony is a contrast between words and their meaning, and situational irony is a contrast between ...