Joan Acocella

Alexei Ratmansky's Disturbingly Revisionist The Bright Stream Delights Ballet World

Debra Levine | Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: Joan Acocella, Dimitri Shostakovich, American Ballet Theatre, Alexei Ratmansky, The Bright Stream, American Ballet Theater, Stalin, George Chakiris, The Bright Stream Ballet, Ballet, Arts News
Debra Levine

Despite best efforts, California authorities (the people who brought you Ronald "Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev!" Reagan) could not put the kibosh on American Ballet Theatre's The Bright Stream.

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Literary Divas You Can’t Help But Love

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Literature, Joyce Carol Oates, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Jamaica Kincaid, Terry McMillan, Literary Divas, Amy Chua, Margaret Atwood, Bernard Henri Levy, Salman Rushdie, Joan Acocella, Books News

There are divas and there are their lesser-known male counterparts, divos; the thing that unites them is their willingness to make demands and to do w...

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Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth?

Robert Eisenman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Judas Iscariot, Christianity, Gospel of Judas, Gospel, The Bible, Judaism, Joan Acocella, Blood Libel, Healthy Living News
Robert Eisenman

The entire character of "Judas Iscariot" is generated out of whole cloth and it is meant to be. Moreover, it is done in a totally malevolent way.

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