Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard bore witness to apartheid
W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the…
‘Maria’ review: Jolie’s Callas is a chilly one-note bore
Maria Callas seized fame as the voice of Tosca, Medea and Carmen, opera’s eternally doomed heroines. If opera still commands audiences a century from now,…