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Open Heaven

1 week ago | culturevulture.net | Lewis Whittington

Sean Hewitt is the award-winning Irish poet author of the Laural Award winning collection “Tongues of Fire” as well as a biographer (J.M. Synge) His 2022 memoir “All Down Darkness Wide” is quite possibly destined to be considered a classic of GLBTQ literature. It is a self-portrait of his relationship and passionately rough breakup with his boyfriend Elias who was suffering from a mental illness and addiction.
Floyd Collins

1 week ago | culturevulture.net | Brian Lipton

The composer-lyricist Adam Guettel clearly has a connection to characters who feel trapped – whether it be Clara, the twentysomething young woman “trapped” by her mental deficits in “The Light in the Piazza”; Kirsten, the introverted woman eventually “trapped” by her addiction to alcohol in “Days of Wine and Roses”; and, most literally, Floyd Collins, the real-life 37-year-old Kentucky cave explorer and budding entrepreneur who spends 17 days stuck underground with his foot caught beneath an...
Peril in the Alps

1 week ago | culturevulture.net | Lynne Friedmann

A kidnapping, a gold digger, a whistling bricklayer, mysterious notations on a spouse’s calendar, a murder and endless cups of hot cocoa. It can only mean one thing: Detective Hercule Poirot and sidekick Captain Arthur Hastings are shifting clues in the case of “Peril in the Alps,” a world premiere comedy-mystery at North Coast Repertory Theatre. Returning to the NCR stage is actor Omri Schein as Agatha Christie’s character Poirot, last seen in “Murder on the Links” (2023).
Operation Mincemeat

3 weeks ago | culturevulture.net | Brian Lipton

Let’s face it: for decades, anything has been fair game these days as the source for a musical, from “Les Miserables” (based on Victor Hugo’s historical mega-novel) to “Heathers” and “Clueless” (based on “cult” classic films) to “Bat Boy” (based on a tabloid news story).
Good Night and Good Luck

3 weeks ago | culturevulture.net | Brian Lipton

In a spring theater season already filled with movie stars on stage – Denzel, Jake, Andrew, Kieran – no one quite emits the megawattage of George Clooney.
Out of Plain Sight (2024)

1 month ago | culturevulture.net | Paula Farmer

A haunting tip prompts a Los Angeles Times reporter to discover that as many as a half a million barrels of toxic waste had been dumped into the ocean in the 50s through the early 60s. Thus begins the career-defining investigative reporting work from Los Angeles Times environmental journalist Rosanna Xia. In 2020, she was the first to break the story of DDT chemicals dumped into the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Southern California.
YOKO: a biography

1 month ago | culturevulture.net | Lewis Whittington

At age 92, Yoko Ono has for decades been a celebrated artist with art installations and performances in galleries and theaters all over the world. Even songs from Ono’s reviled Plastic Ono Band albums from the 70s have been recycled by millennial bands collaborating with Ono and are dance club hits. Yet Ono is still remembered some as the woman who broke up the Beatles.
Buena Vista Social Club

1 month ago | culturevulture.net | Brian Lipton

In our topsy-turvy world, I am not sure I agree with the proclamation made in the “Buena Vista Social Club” that “there’s nothing a song can’t fix.” But should any question persist whether “music is the universal language of mankind,” all you need to do is head to the Schoenfeld Theater and take in this truly joyful musical to prove this age-old adage is true.
New Directors/New Films Festival 2025

1 month ago | culturevulture.net | Paula Farmer

In the world of cinema and amongst cinephiles of New York, if autumn is synonymous with the New York Film Festival (NYFF), then New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) means spring is in the air and a new season of the potentially future best and brightest is about to be ushered in. Taking place April 2 through April 13, the over 50-year-old festival of emerging new filmmakers also marks the long lasting collaboration between hosts, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Film at Lincoln Center (FLC).
Uvalde Mom (2025)

1 month ago | culturevulture.net | Andrew Osborne

The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as an action “that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.” But in the United States, there are two kinds of “tragedy,” specifically (a) those that politicians scream about on their way to election victories — see: any crime committed by a non-white described as a “migrant” on Fox News, harm to any police officers not on duty at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 — and (b) the types of sad circumstances we respond to with the phrase...