Event Reviews

“Have Venue, Will Play” should be Laith Al-Saadi’s motto. If it’s a night of the week, he’s probably playing somewhere. I recently caught an Al-Saadi show at the Arena sports bar, where he plays a...

If I say “Wagner,” some of you will say “very long operas with supersized sopranos sporting Viking helmets.” Plus, you’ll probably add “the world’s second-loudest anti-Semite, behind...

After braving the first big snowstorm of the season and slipping slowly across town to reach the Ann Arbor Community Messiah Sing, the children and I finally enter St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal Church (at Genesis of Ann Arbor)...

We’ve been lucky to have Lorna Goodison among us for most of the last twenty years, teaching in the U-M creative writing program or in the Afroamerican and African Studies department. She has often traveled, returning to...

Attention opera lovers: on December 9, the orchestra, soloists, and chorus of the Royal Theatre of Turin will deliver a concert performance of Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell, a seldom-staged work of epic proportions....

Clattering around his bleak, dirty beige mobile home in Colorado, with a jagged mountain peak outside the window, Ulysses is trying to die quietly, until his ex-wife Emma appears. He cocks a suspicious eyebrow, looks her over,...