Mini Review– Stew by Zora Howard at Gloucester Stage Company
MINI REVIEW by Kati Nalbandian Stew by Zora Howard Regional Premiere at Gloucester Stage Company Gloucester, MA In Gloucester, you can catch the final performances of a new play, “Stew” by Harlem-bred writer and performer Zora Howard. This regional premiere brings the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist to a stage here on the North Shore. The one-act production is
I Heard Something Like Hope
This month, we’re highlighting local businesses as part of our #StayLocal2020 campaign. Scroll to the bottom for more information. Drinking from Snowglobes is Christopher O’Keeffe’s first book of poetry. It’s currently available for presale here. By Joey Phoenix “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” Charles Dickens famously begins in his A Tale of Two Cities, set in
A “Uniquely Isolating and Deeply Unifying” Global Crisis in Pandemic Plays 2020
by Joey Phoenix This past week, The Ridiculous Project held performances excerpting their newest work, Pandemic Plays 2020, an interactive storytelling studio written and produced by the project’s Founding Artistic Director Kate Kohler Amory. The studio was hosted via Zoom and contained a mix of pre-recorded content, live performance, and interactive storytelling. 2020 has been the advent of new digital
Beasts Walk Among Us in Carey’s Murder in the Marsh
by Joey Phoenix Content Warnings: Sexual Assault, Murder, Alcohol Abuse Detective Eddie Devlin is about to be relieved of his duty by the Revere Police Department. A year ago, he shot the killer of a woman in the marsh but the man’s body disappeared from the crime scene. Eddie soon became a suspect, then a person of interest, and finally
Love, Grief, and Ornithology in Joey Gould’s The Acute Avian Heart
by Joey Phoenix When spending time observing birds, it’s important to be quiet, still, and patient – skills useful for reading and writing poetry. Birds are often used as metaphors for disparate ideas like freedom, chaos, beauty, and even the macabre. There’s a bird for every occasion, every state of being, and every emotion. For Joey Gould, they are also
“When We Fly, We Find Our Fire.” – Reading January Gill O’Neil’s Rewilding
by Joey Phoenix What happens when you have to start over after a major life change? Do you keep doing what you’ve been doing or do you let yourself become something brand new? These are the questions January Gill O’Neil examines in her newest book Rewilding (Cavankerry Press, 2018). Rewilding is a term for ecological, large-scale conservation where land
