In 'Blue,' Lyric Opera's small, powerful cast tells painful story of a teen's death at police hands
A five-year-old opera, “Blue,” tackles this tragedy head-on with a simple yet weighty story about a Black couple in Harlem ...
Review: Powerful ‘Blue’ by Lyric Opera charts the agony of Black parenting
In this opera, composed by Jeanine Tesori with a libretto by Tazewell Thompson, you never see the event at the heart of the ...
Commentary: What the movie ‘Conclave’ says about belief in God in a secular age
The cardinals in “Conclave” are much like the cardinals evident in the history of the Catholic Church from the beginning — ...
Goodbye to all that — once again, and for the last time
Farewell reflections from an American who has now lost his country: I quit the GOP 13 years ago. That wasn't enough ...
How to Discern Truth in Our Chaotic Digital Milieu
In many ways, this industrial transformation was more radical than today’s digital transformations; it was the telegraph that ...