Author Archives: Jake Tracer

More than a year after it was supposed to, the new Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater will open its doors tonight for the first time to audiences instead of construction workers. The World Arts and Cultures department’s second Faculty Festival of Performances, which features works choreographed by WAC faculty and performed by current and former WAC […]

Whenever Compagnie Marie Chouinard takes the stage, audiences can be certain they’ll see a dance performance. Though the modern performers may twist and contort their bodies in a way that could cause traditional ballet masters to consider corporal punishment, the question of classification would never come up. So it’s not surprising that when the head […]

Charlie Kaufman has written a play set in the present. The exact present. By the time you finish reading this sentence, the play’s setting will have passed. And come again. As only a Charlie Kaufman play could. At the same time, Kaufman has written a play about the past. And the future. But not the […]

On the night of Saturday, March 14, 1885, patrons of London’s Savoy Theatre saw the premiere of William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur S. Sullivan’s newest light opera, a comic romance set in Japan titled “The Mikado; or, the Town of Titipu.” The librettist-composer duo had already achieved enormous success in both Britain and the […]

Forget “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Kingdom of Heaven.” As far as I’m concerned, today’s release of “Star Wars: Episode III ““ Revenge of the Sith” marks the unofficial start to the summer movie season. It’s sure to create a box office bottleneck for early screenings previously unseen this year, but what it […]

It goes without saying that a band’s lead singer embarking on a solo tour featuring acoustic covers of Morrissey songs could be labeled self-indulgent. But Colin Meloy doesn’t mind. “People are going to see me that way,” the lead singer of The Decemberists said in a recent phone interview. “Doing a covers record of someone […]